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1.	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.
2.	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
3.	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
4.	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
5.	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
6.	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
7.	Kenya: She danced to the beat of a different drummer
	Author: Mshai Mwangola	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, Wambui Otieno
	Summary & Comment: "Mshai Mwangola writes that while not everyone would agree with the choices Wambui Otieno made, it is impossible to ignore her. ‘Her very life functioned as a battleground in the struggle to assert her understanding of what it meant to be a human being’." MEM