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		<title>The Oh My God farce!</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/the-oh-my-god-farce-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The house in the middle of our street is open again&#8230; Why are the window so wide open? Been round back? Why? What&#8217;s happened round back? Tell what gem. We were hanging out on our verandah trying to see trying What were you trying to see? Happened round back? What? What happened? Laughter. Suspense. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Lifting Liberia to Lifting Liberians: Second Term Challenges for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/from-lifting-liberia-to-lifting-liberians-second-term-challenges-for-ellen-johnson-sirleaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robtel Pailey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Born in Monrovia, Liberia, Robtel Neajai Pailey is an activist/writer who spent her formative years in Washington, D.C.  Robtel moved to Liberia in July 2007 to work in the Office of the President, Republic of Liberia, as special assistant for communications, where she was engaged in speech writing and managing the Office of the President’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with the cast of Pray the Devil Back to Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/interview-with-the-cast-of-pray-the-devil-back-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pray the Devil Back to Hell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pray the Devil Back to Hell&#8221; Robtel Pailey interviews the cast and members of the production team. The film is available in full on PBS along with four other films in the series &#8220;Women War and Peace&#8220;. Listen here]]></description>
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		<title>Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/audre-lorde-the-berlin-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audre Lorde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Lesbian Feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary film]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cannot wait for this&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Scheduled to make its world premiere in the Panorama Documentary section is Dagmar Shultz&#8217;s Audre Lorde &#8211; The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is an untold chapter (the Berlin years) of the late writer, poet and activist, Caribbean child of immigrants from Grenada, who died rather young at 58 years old in 1992. Specifically, the [...]]]></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>
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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>David Kato : February 13, 1964 – January 26, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/david-kato-february-13-1964-january-26-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kato]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Kato was bludgeoned to death on January 26th 2011 in his home in Kampala Uganda. He was an out gay Ugandan LGBTI activist and human rights defender and security officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda [SMUG]. I knew him personally for just over one short but intense year and in that time I came to [...]]]></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[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>

		<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>A film by Nikyatu Jusu</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/a-film-by-nikyatu-jusu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/a-film-by-nikyatu-jusu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikyatu Jusu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Conflict]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=9084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to come across [Via Shadow and Act] &#8220;Say Grace Before Drowning&#8221; a film by Sierra Leonean/American Nikyatu Jusu. The film tells the story about a woman&#8217;s struggle to overcome the insanity of war as she tries to adjust to a life in exile. Whatever positive expectations Grace had about her new life, [...]]]></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>

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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>
		<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>

		<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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