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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Africa General category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more Africa General articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive.

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1. Media, activism, and change
Author: Deborah Walter Date Written: 12 May 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: SANGONet
Secondary Category: Gender Source URL: http://www.sangonet.org.za; www.genderlinks.org.za
Key Words: Media, activism, change, gender, diversity,

Summary & Comment: Like it or not, media play an integral role through what they do and do not report. Media also focus attention on social development and human rights issues. How do activists use media to advance their own agendas and encourage access to media for rural women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex people, and migrants as parts of free and i . . . [expand]
2. Longer, analytical article. Commodity dependence
Author: edited by William Minter Date Written: 11 May 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: AfricaFocus Bulletin
Secondary Category: Economic Justice Source URL: http://www.africafocus.org
Key Words: commodity dependence, markets, producers,

Summary & Comment: This AfricaFocus Bulletin contains excerpts from a statement at a side-session of the Accra meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The full report on which this is based is a joint publication by Action Aid and the South Centre, available at: http://www.southcentre.org/publications/CommodityReport/AA_SC_Commodit . . . [expand]
3. The Betrayal of Africa by Gerald Caplan reviewed by Hugh McCullum
Author: Review, Hugh McCullum Date Written: 9 May 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: AfricaFiles
Secondary Category: Economic Justice Source URL: http://www.africafiles.org
Key Words: Gerald Caplan, Betrayal of Africa, McCullum,

Summary & Comment: Caplan and his publishers have produced a book that is popularly writtten in style, designed with tables and maps that illustrate superbly the basic context that history does count, that Africa was invaded and conquered about 120 years ago when “European leaders who knew nothing about Africa and cared less, exacerbated the natural challenges when . . . [expand]
4. Africa at large: Lagging behind in access to e-infrastructure
Author: Okuttah Mark Date Written: 8 May 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: Business Daily, Kenya
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.bdafrica.com/
Key Words: access, e-infrastructure, ITC, information technology,

Summary & Comment: According to the latest global e-readiness report most of the 54 countries on the African continent are slow in channelling information technology towards economic and social benefits. DN
5. Longer, analytical article. How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture, but who’s fighting back?
Author: Walden Bello Date Written: 1 May 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: Focus on the Global South
Secondary Category: Economic Justice Source URL: http://www.choike.org
Key Words: right, agriculture, food sovereignty, small farmers, WB, IMF, WTO,

Summary & Comment: Vía Campesina believes that food sovereignty is the right of all peoples and that nations or unions of States must define their particular agricultural and food policies without involving a third-party. Farmers could produce enough food to eradicate world hunger, they insist, and this article answers the question, "So, why won’t they let them? . . . [expand]
6. Longer, analytical article. Education for all Global Monitoring Report
Author: UNESCO Date Written: 30 April 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: UNESCO
Secondary Category: Youth & Children Source URL: http://www.unesco.org
Key Words: Education for all, monitoring, UNESCO,

Summary & Comment: The Dakar Framework for Action sets out twelve broad strategies through which governments, supported by civil society organizations, donors,and other stakeholders, can achieve or move closer to the six Education for all goals. This chapter dicusses the ways governments have responded. DN
7. Longer, analytical article. Agricultural extension work both important and under-valued
Author: Kwamboka Oyaro, Nairobi Date Written: 29 April 2008
Primary Category: Africa General Document Origin: Inter Press Service
Secondary Category: Economic Justice Source URL:
Key Words: agriculture, extension work,

Summary & Comment: At present extension workers are the weak link in the chain between government, researchers, and farmers rather than the indispensable link. Educating extension workers to be multi-skilled and able to offer advice on a variety of crops and animals would benefit all who run small-scale, diversified farms. DN

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News from Additional Sources

Pambazuka News :Pan-African Postcard

  1. Don't criminalise African Languages
    Tajudeen rages against the attempts to criminalise African language media. The state should be making laws to protest society and be willing to sanction those who use the media to exacerbate ethnic tensions rather than seeking to ban them.
  2. Kenyan media - we too are to blame
    Tajudeen Abdul Raheem asks the question: Do we expect too much from the media when we ourselves are failing African societies?
  3. Airbus A330-300 to Malabo: Get your ticket to the heart of darkness
    Agustin Velloso advices those interested in plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea "to choose one's travel companions for a coup d'état with care."
  4. United States and Somalia
    Bill Fletcher looks at the hypocrisy surrounding the United States' misadventures into Somalia.
  5. The role of the USA in Haiti hunger riots
    In the same way that US cotton farm subsidies hurt African cotton farmers by depressing the world market, Bill Quigley argues that by subsidizing its rice farmers, the US has gravely hurt Haitian rice farmers.