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	<title>Black Looks</title>
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		<title>2012 edition of SCARF magazine: &#8216;Breathing Space&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/2012-edition-of-scarf-magazine-breathing-space-edited-by-diriye-osman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diriye Osman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCARF Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sokari Ekine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SCARF Magazine is that rarity: a collectable arts magazine produced  annually that features ingredients that shouldn&#8217;t work but always do.  Founded by artist and curator, Kinsi Abdulleh, under the umbrella group &#8216;Numbi&#8217; (which means &#8216;healing dance&#8217; in Somali), the magazine is collated by a small group of dedicated editors and artists, including acclaimed short story-writer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign to replace Zanele Muholi&#8217;s stolen photography equipment</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/campaign-to-replace-zanele-muholis-stolen-photography-equipment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/campaign-to-replace-zanele-muholis-stolen-photography-equipment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photograhpy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zanele muholi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 28th 26th April, Zanele returned home from Seoul, South Korea to discover that all her work between 2008 and 2012 stored on 20 hard drives and including backups had been stolen on the 20th. The thieves also stole her cameras, lens, memory sticks and laptops. There are no words to describe Zanele&#8217;s feelings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courage is a Novel</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/courage-is-a-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel Iduma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do not forgive me, I am nuanced. For to write a short review of a friend/publisher/editor/colleague’s book is to traffic in subjective subtleties; the kind that, incidentally, populates City of Memories, Richard Ali’s new novel and first book. I am thinking of courage. “Some books are acts of courage,” writes the Washington Post in response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interviews with Brenda Hollis &amp; Stephen Rapp, current and former chief prosecutors of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; Charles Taylor&#8217;s defense attorney and daughter &amp; others on the Charles Taylor guilty verdict</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/interviews-with-brenda-hollis-charles-taylors-defense-attorney-and-daughter-others-on-the-charles-taylo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/interviews-with-brenda-hollis-charles-taylors-defense-attorney-and-daughter-others-on-the-charles-taylo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following the recent guilty verdict delivered to Charles Taylor [read my commentary here]  I conducted a number of interviews in the Hague immediately following the verdict.  To listen to the interviews, visit SOAS Radio ]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Charles Taylor and Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/05/reflections-on-charles-taylor-and-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has changed since I covered the first day of Charles Taylor’s trial for Pambazuka News on June 4, 2007. That day, he failed to show up to court, calling the case against him a “farce.” Today, he was in full view, stoic, resolute and somber. As I sat in the public gallery of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unpacking the layers of Sweden&#8217;s racist-misogynist cake</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/unpacking-the-layers-of-swedens-racist-misogynist-cake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/unpacking-the-layers-of-swedens-racist-misogynist-cake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Makode Linde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shailja Patel writing in Pambazuka News responds to the shockingly brutalisation of African women&#8217;s bodies by the Swedish Artists Organisation  &#8211; Lets be clear this action and the response by the artists in question does not stand alone.  It should be studied closely in itself AND  along with the growing acceptance of racism and racist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Promise of April 12: A Preface to Liberia’s Complicated Biography</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/the-promise-of-april-12-a-preface-to-liberias-complicated-biography-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/the-promise-of-april-12-a-preface-to-liberias-complicated-biography-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[April 12, 1980 is often described as the beginning of Liberia’s end. I think of it as the preface to Liberia’s long, complicated biography, the beginning of our awakening. It was a day when our pomp and circumstance left a deafening echo; when we were all exposed, laid bear by the realization that being the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some are guiltier than others</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/some-are-guiltier-than-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/some-are-guiltier-than-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwean independence day celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zimbabwean justice system]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental principle underlying the right to a fair trial is that every individual is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. Hence no one individual should be treated like a criminal until a court of law has passed a decision declaring them so. Even if the circumstantial evidence points to the guilt of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe we need an ECOWAS in Southern Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/maybe-we-need-an-ecowas-in-southern-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/maybe-we-need-an-ecowas-in-southern-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumbidzai Dube</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alassana quattara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andry rajoelina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coups in africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecowas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laurent gbagbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mali coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mamadou tandja]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marc ravalomanana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morgan tsvangirayi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SADC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuareg rebels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unconstituional changes of government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Military governments found their most marked expression on the African continent recording an unprecedented eighty-five violent coups and rebellions from the time of the Egyptian revolution in 1952 until 1998.Seventy-eight of these took place between 1961 and 1997. Undoubtedly, West Africa was the worst affected region and it continues to experience more coups, rebellions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Week on Sunday (weekly)</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/the-week-on-sunday-weekly-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/04/the-week-on-sunday-weekly-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reality Check: Sexy Chocolate – M.I.A. While in retrospect, the films of the Blaxploitation era provided us with many cringe-worthy moments, they did contribute two things that can be viewed as positive. Black actors got work. And it was abundantly clear not only that Black was beautiful, but it was damn sexy to boot!Many a [...]]]></description>
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