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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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		<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>Is This The End of The Nigerian Revolution?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/is-this-the-end-of-the-nigerian-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something dies in you. You feel disconnected from your dream of a glorious aftermath. For the first time in your life you felt whole, framed within a bigger picture. You spoke, chanted, demanded. You were a witness, you and a million others. You were a revolutionary. Now things have returned to normal. Normal because there [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></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>

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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>Needing This Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/needing-this-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OccupyNigeria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9063</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“La résistance est une forme de collaboration” – Albert Camus There are no groupings in my head. I am not being spoken for. No one will speak for me if I do not speak for myself. Tell this to those who have formed groups and begotten labels in my name: I will join you if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/see-the-nigerian-revolution-has-begun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[E-Activism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You tell me that if I speak I will not be heard. No. I will speak and I will be heard. I am not a writer only by talent. I am a writer because I want to be a witness, a real witness. You recall Edward Said, “There was something wrong with how I was [...]]]></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>Lists: Books</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/lists-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[E Francis White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatima el-Tayeb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shailja Patel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its that time of year when the various forms of media are filled with endless lists of the &#8220;best of&#8221; the year. I usually try to push against following the crowd but this particular list is worthy of repeating &#8220;The Alternative, The Underground, The Oh-Yes-That-One List of Favorite Books of 2011&#8221; I start with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of pavement dwellers</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/voices-of-pavement-dwellers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shackdwellers south africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symphony Way]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In December 2007 a group of backorders occupied a section of empty houses but were evicted after just two months.   They then decided to stay in the area and built their shacks along the pavement of Symphony Way where they managed to stay for a further 20 months.  Eventually they were evicted for a second time and forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond COP17 &#8211; language and grassroots realities</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/beyond-cop17-language-and-grassroots-realities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/beyond-cop17-language-and-grassroots-realities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformational Organising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A clip from a roundtable discussion on the South African media&#8217;s reporting on Climate Change which has failed to amplify the voices of those most affected.]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine Futures:  Egyptian Body Politic &#8211; Remix Tahrir</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/imagining-futures-egyptian-body-politic-remix-tahrir/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/imagining-futures-egyptian-body-politic-remix-tahrir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaa Abdel Fattah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagining Futures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nov20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Brutality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shehab Ahmed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tahrir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AN ANIMATED ADAPTATION OF &#8220;The Dream&#8221; by Alaa Abd El-Fattah,translated by Lina Attalah, 2011. Voice narration by VJ Um Amel. A SOUNDTRACK REMIX OF &#8220;Immortal Egypt Revolution Dub&#8221; by DJ Zhao, &#8220;Amble ambience&#8221; by VJ Um Amel, KPCC radio interview of VJ Um Amel on November 23, 2011, and voice overs. A VISUAL REMIX OF [...]]]></description>
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