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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Nigeria</title>
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		<title>Since We Are Afraid of Infinite Silence</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/since-we-afraid-infinite-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts on Boko Haram Consider the danger of infinite silence. They come to us in the name of God, for evil has taken the guise of virtue. They say they are speaking a collective language, premised on restating the religious utopia created by their prophet. Their prophet. Clearly, their God and their prophet are imagined. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mbeki on Uganda AHB &amp; Africa&#8217;s selfish political classes</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/mbeki-on-uganda-ahb-africas-selfish-political-classes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Bahati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thabo Mbeki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former South African President,Thabo Mbeki has criticised the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill [AHB] in Kampala. Mbeki was speaking in response to a question by academic activist, Sylvia Tamale on what he would say to &#8220;Mr Bahati about the plight of a lesbian woman seeking recognition of her divergent sexual orientation&#8221;. Thank goodness there are still pockets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Saro-Wiwa on how it was, how it remains &amp; how it could be</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/ken-saro-wiwa-on-how-it-was-and-how-it-remains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil Cabal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KSW reminds us of a struggle Nigerians have largely ignored or at best dismissed. The Nigerian media [pre social media] has to take major responsibility for the lack of information and analysis no doubt bullied as usual by military and pseudo military governments including Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s. He reminds us of our right to stand up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the condition of Nigeria by Nigerians….</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/nigeria-by-nigerians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodluck Jonathan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion and the Nigerian state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three excellent insightful articles by Nigerians on Nigeria with my brief comments. “People In The Niger Delta Now Recognize That Jonathan Is A Waste Of Time” – Isaac Osuoka Issac Osuoka is a long time environmental and social justice activist from the Niger Delta and a founding member of the IYC and more recently Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Petrification&#8221; &#8211; excessive strong adherence to tradition&#8230;&#8230;..being unAfrican</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/petrificaton-excessive-strong-adherence-to-tradition-being-unafrican/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xenophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decolonisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fanon on Petrification Douglas Ficek (in Living Fanon, p. 76), writing on Fanon and petrification, reminds one that, by “petrification”, Fanon meant an excessively strong adherence to tradition in the face of the coloniser’s culture, which brings about a kind of paralysis or “immobility” of the culture of the colonised, more especially so in rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nollywood: Nkiru</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/nollywood-nkiru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nkiru]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have habitually shied away from Nollywood except when forced by by my niece who is an obsessive Nollier and must have the largest collection ever. Now I have an assignment to watch Nollywood movies. This is the first of many! Nkiru, is 12 minute supernatural thriller premiering on the 18th December. Here&#8217;s the blurb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the real Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill stand up</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/will-the-real-same-sex-marriage-prohibition-bill-stand-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/will-the-real-same-sex-marriage-prohibition-bill-stand-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Same Sex Marriage Bill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the passing of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill 2011 [SSMB] by the Nigerian Senate hundreds of online and twitter comments have been made supporting the Bill. By far the majority of these comments have defended the Bill on the basis that it only concerns marriage between two people identifying as the same sex; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God is a game&#8221; a load of money, miracles and hate!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/a-little-bit-of-god-a-load-of-money-and-a-great-deal-of-hate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Weku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prosperity preachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seyi Rhodes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria is now trending as &#8221; a very religious country&#8221; and Nigerians as &#8220;a very religious people&#8221;. Well if one meausres religious by the numbers who attend churches and mosques then it must be true! The business of church and religion is probably the most competitive business in the country so competition for new bodies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heteropatriarcial recolonisation</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/heteropatriarcial-recolonisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On hearing the news of the passing of the Nigerian &#8220;Same Sex Marriage Bill 2011, my reaction was, I was too numb to even have a reaction at the miserable state of my country. Did I really expect anything different? Chude Jideonwo &#8220;Why the Nigeria&#8217;s Anti-Gay Bill Sickens Me alludes to the real purpose of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journey to Afikpo (Ebonyi State, Nigeria) : Day 3.</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/journey-to-afikpo-ebonyi-state-nigeria-day-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/journey-to-afikpo-ebonyi-state-nigeria-day-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afikpo Ebonyi State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleansing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Day 3 – 21.08.2011 Yesterday I took a walk, straight up Eke Market Road, to Eke Market itself, but stopped when I reached the end of the road. My walk did not last beyond 30 minutes, because I walk quite fast. Yet there are things I saw which should be told &#8211; and this is [...]]]></description>
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