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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Social Movements</title>
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		<title>Queer African Reader</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/queer-african-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Queer African Reader Edited by Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas &#160;  A visionary work melding academia and art that breaks the mould for Queer African studies  Unique in presenting the voices of LGBTI Africans  Groundbreaking in both scope and content, it encompasses voices from across the African content &#160; As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on President Johnson Sirleaf by LGBTI Liberians &amp; Allies</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/statement-on-president-johnson-sirleaf-by-lgbti-liberians-allies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti Homosexuality Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTI Liberia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[March 22, 2012-PRESS STATEMENT / Immediate release from THE COALITION OF LGBTI* LIBERIANS AND ALLIES (CLA)  and THE INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, recently expressed in an interview opposition for LGBT rights—especially decriminalization—and was vague about support for increased criminal penalties for [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></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>We are all Munyaradzi Gwisai</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/we-are-all-munyaradzi-gwisai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hopewell Gumbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Munyaradzi Gwisai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Zimbabwe six]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[*This article was motivated by the call by Kubatana for Zimbabwean human rights activists to stand in solidarity with Munyaradzi Gwisai, and 5 of his colleagues who have been convicted for watching videos of the Egyptian Revolution in February 2011* The decision passed against Zimbabwe International Socialist Organisation leader, and my former lecturer at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopewell Gumbo of the Zimbabwean 6 on their arrest</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/03/hopewell-gumbo-of-the-zimbabwean-6-on-their-arrest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoneta Choto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edson Chakuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hopewell Gumbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Munyaradzi Gwisai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatenda Mombeyarara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welcome Zimuto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwean 6]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hopewell Gumbo talks about his arrest and that of five other activists all who were found guilty by the Zimbabwean government for &#8216;inciting public disorder&#8217;. Originally 44 activists were arrested and charged with treason. Their &#8216;crime&#8217; watching and discussing a film on the Egyptian uprisings last February 2011. From this we know Zimbabweans are not [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[senegal]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Pambazuka News]]></category>

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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/is-this-the-end-of-the-nigerian-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9081</guid>
		<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>
		<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>
		<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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