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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Nigeria</title>
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		<title>The Problem With Small Miracles</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/the-problem-with-small-miracles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was one of the cyberspace moralists that put in word for Okeoghene Ighiwoto, the now famous Nigerian patient who has been ‘saved’. How might one begin thinking of this matter in a post-salvation mode, now that we feel good, sigh gratefully, relish our success? But, as we find, success is often an imagined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Gold: &#8220;We are rebels of the struggle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/black-gold-we-are-rebels-of-the-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Black Gold: The Struggle of the Niger Delta&#8221; is a feature film written and directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Jeta Amata. Based on the film synopsis, Black Gold sounds fairly straightforward. A  community protests against multinational oil companies and the Nigerian government but to little effect. Enter militants and war is declared. Its not possible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From colonial dependence to petro dependence:  A video window into the colonial past</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/from-colonial-dependence-to-petro-dependence-a-video-window-into-the-colonial-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three Roads to Tomorrow &#8211; a BP promotional film uses three students from the three different regions of Nigeria to depict the transition from the past to the modernity &#8211; from colonial dependence to petro dependence.      And the trains ran too.  I even suspect there was electricity or at least there weren&#8217;t any generators. View the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not a pretty picture:  A short documentary on Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/not-a-pretty-picture-a-short-documentary-on-nigeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty in Nigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Sahara Reporters TV]]></description>
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		<title>No Spring in West Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/no-spring-in-west-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pambazuka News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Occupy Nigeria has come and gone. Senegal’s week of mass protests continues in sporadic outbursts and it remains to be seen if people will respond to Youssou N’dour’s call for a mass rally next Sunday. N’dour’s candidacy was suspiciously rejected by the Constitutional Council on the grounds he was unable to collect the necessary 10,000 signatures. [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9093</guid>
		<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>Was Nigeria a 14 day dream?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/was-nigeria-a-14-day-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/was-nigeria-a-14-day-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Fuel Subsidy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Uprising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? Was it just a brief moment in our history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different? Or has there been a permanent shift in consciousness? Emmanuel Iduma likens Nigeria’s 14-day revolt to a dream from which we awoke and returned to normalcy. ‘The horizon of your [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/mbeki-on-uganda-ahb-africas-selfish-political-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9086</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/ken-saro-wiwa-on-how-it-was-and-how-it-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9075</guid>
		<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>The Nigerian revolution just begun</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/9245/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Uprising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday 9 January, the first day of the Nigerian nationwide indefinite strike, my fellow blogger, Emmanuel Iduma, wrote a post ‘See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun’. Emmanuel is a young man, a writer, modest and maybe a little shy. Sometimes there is hesitancy about his writing, as if he is not quite sure whether the [...]]]></description>
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