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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.	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.	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.	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.	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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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.