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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Profiles category of Africa InfoServ. To read an article, click on its title. To see more Profiles articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive. Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

1. What is the White Army?
Author: Mollie Zapata Date Written: 3 April 2012
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: enough blog
Secondary Category: Eastern Region Source URL: http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/
Key Words: youth, Jonglei state, South Sudan

Summary & Comment: Youth in South Sudan calling themselves the "White Army" have been leading attacks on communities in Jonglei state. This provides a quick overview of what they are and their activities since they banded together in December 2011. CJW
2. Gold: Losing its lustre in Tanzania
Author: AfricaFiles Date Written: 29 January 2012
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: AfricaFiles
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://n/a
Key Words: AfricaFiles, Tanzania

Summary & Comment: Plan to attend an informal lecture hosted by AfricaFiles on February 4th, 2012.
3. Goodluck Jonathan: Nigeria’s unlikely leader under pressure
Author: AFP Date Written: 9 January 2012
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: Daily Nation
Secondary Category: Western Region Source URL: http://www.nation.co.ke/
Key Words: oil, Boko Haram, demonstration, economy

Summary & Comment: Nigeria is currently suffering from general strikes, sectarian violence and seemingly unending waves of oilspills. How did a zoology professor turned president get to this point? CJW
4. Samuel Kiendrebeogo: 1949-2012
Author: Mohamed Keita Date Written: 6 January 2012
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: Committee to Protect Journalists blog
Secondary Category: Western Region Source URL: http://cpj.org/blog
Key Words: Francophone Africa, radio, Kiendrebeogo,Voice of America, tribute.

Summary & Comment: A tribute on CPJ blog to a radio broadcaster from Burkina Faso, who broadcast in French for 18 years from the Voice of America to Francophone Africa. 3 comments about him are included at the end. JK
5. AfricaFiles Annual General Meeting & Lecture
Author: AfricaFiles Date Written: 3 November 2011
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: AfricaFiles
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.africafiles.org
Key Words: AGM, Tanzania

Summary & Comment: This year’s AGM and ever popular AGM lecture will be held on February 4th, 2012. We look forward to seeing you there! CJW
6. Longer, analytical article. Wambui Otieno: She belongs to Kenya!
Author: Awino Okech Date Written: 26 September 2011
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: Pambazuka News, Issue 549
Secondary Category: Gender Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org/
Key Words: Kenya, Wambui Otieno, gender, culture

Summary & Comment: "In this special issue Awino Okech brings to the fore the layered nature of Wambui’s life and the opportunities it in turn offers to understanding the social, political and economic factors that are contested, influence and shape Kenya." MEM
7. A decade of living dangerously: Wambui Otieno’s Mau Mau
Author: Elsie Cloete Date Written: 26 September 2011
Primary Category: Profiles Document Origin: Pambazuka News, Issue 549
Secondary Category: Gender Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
Key Words: Kenya, gender, human rights, colonialism

Summary & Comment: "‘With her death on 30 August 2011, Wambui Otieno-Mbugua joins the pantheon of African women activists who devoted their lives to struggles against colonial and post-independence political regimes and against systems that favoured and still do favour men over women,’ writes Elsie Cloete." MEM

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