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Convicted killer of lesbian soccer player ‘lies’ on the stand – Thato Mphiti arriving chained at the Delmas Circuit Court today
Delmas, South Africa: At least 250 activists from the Gauteng and Mpumalanga Provinces gathered in Delmas Circuit Court for the trial of the three additionally accused for robbery with aggravating circumstances, rape and [...]
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Buyisiwe was gang raped on the 2 October 2005. The accused persons in the rape case have been out on bail since 2006, leaving Buyisiwe and her community vulnerable to further acts of violence. It is now nearly 4 years later and Buyisiwe is still fighting for justice from the South African [...]
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Buyisiwe was gang raped on the 2 October 2005. The accused persons in the rape case have been out on bail since 2006, leaving Buyisiwe and her community vulnerable to further acts of violence. It is now nearly 4 years later and Buyisiwe is still fighting for justice from the South African [...]
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Kenyan artist Peterson Kamwathi’s exhibition, “Sitting Allowances” depicts the 2008 post election violence in Kenya.
Kamwathi’s [His] collection of eight pieces strikes you the moment you enter the gallery by the sheer blackness of their surfaces and by the rather uplifting repetitiveness of the same elements, the legs, the eyes and the grimly menacing faces [...]
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Richard Pithouse writes an open letter to the South African State challenging their response to popular protest against housing in particular. These protests are not, as the government would have people believe, about service delivery. Rather they are a demand for the rights of the poor to live in the city and to [...]
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Richard Pithouse writes an open letter to the South African State challenging their response to popular protest against housing in particular. These protests are not, as the government would have people believe, about service delivery. Rather they are a demand for the rights of the poor to live in the city and to [...]
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Richard Pithouse writes an open letter to the South African State challenging their response to popular protest against housing in particular. These protests are not, as the government would have people believe, about service delivery. Rather they are a demand for the rights of the poor to live in the city and to [...]
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Richard Pithouse writes an open letter to the South African State challenging their response to popular protest against housing in particular. These protests are not, as the government would have people believe, about service delivery. Rather they are a demand for the rights of the poor to live in the city and to [...]
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Heat rashes populate my
Body nightly, rash bubble
Upon my otherwise flaw- Less skin setting me
on blazes
Of angry nettle weilds.
You found the solution.
Ice cold, heat made [...]
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I am not quite sure how this started but a couple of weeks ago a group of Nigerian twitters/bloggers began a campaign called “Light Up Nigeria” [LUN] and here on Twitter. The idea is to mobilize Nigerians into demanding electricity.
The time has come,Nigeria belongs to all of us and if we do not speak [...]
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I am not quite sure how this started but a couple of weeks ago a group of Nigerian twitters/bloggers began a campaign called “Light Up Nigeria” [LUN] and here on Twitter. The idea is to mobilize Nigerians into demanding electricity.
The time has come,Nigeria belongs to all of us and if we do not speak [...]
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Black Looks
I am not quite sure how this started but a couple of weeks ago a group of Nigerian twitters/bloggers began a campaign called “Light Up Nigeria” [LUN] and here on Twitter. The idea is to mobilize Nigerians into demanding electricity.
The time has come,Nigeria belongs to all of us and if we do not speak [...]
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Ife Franklin created this collage (not the complete series) over the past 5 years in memory of lesbian activist and human rights defender, FannyAnn Eddy who was raped and murdered on the 28thSeptember 2004 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Fannyann Eddy was an African woman who is from Sierra Leone West Africa. She was a [...]
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“A pile of bricks, no matter how well crafted, is not a wall. And a group of walls, no matter how sturdy or beautiful, is not a cathedral. If you want to end up with a cathedral, you have to start with that global vision in mind, and “design down” from there.” –Dr. William Spady [...]
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VP is boxing smart
VP is shadowboxing, start
VP is docking in person
Smtms u’r just a version
VP is speaking your heart
VP is speaking without
word [...]
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some partners are only acceptable even lovable
when they are willing to drop everything in their lives
and only care for the well being of the superior voices
of the women’s collective of oppression.
in this enclave membership hangs on the
precarious existence of cult affirmation and submission
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Will the real Nigeria stand up.
Ed Kashi who produced the photo journal “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta” in 2008 recently returned to the Niger Delta for 7 weeks. Kashi’s photos vividly captures the way oil invades peoples lives on all levels. From [...]
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Pat Parker was one of the first African American lesbian feminist poets to come out. She published five collections of poems including a “Movement in Black” 1978. She died in 1989 at age 45 of breast cancer.
Where will you be, When they come? –
Boots are being polished…trumpeters clean their horns
Chains and locks forged…the [...]
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I wrote this post exactly two years ago and speaks to President Obama’s speech in Ghana and denial of the West and in particular, the US, cataclysmic role in Africa.
“Ravaging Africa” is a truly exceptional 4 part radio documentary series on Africa. The series interviewed 26 activists from 16 countries during [...]
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Rice N Peas publishes a video of the hours just before the Free Gaza movement’s “Spirit of Humanity” was boarded by Israeli naval gunships on the 30th June. In the night, Israel had threatened to open fire on the unarmed ship carrying humanitarian aid. In the morning they boarded the ship [...]
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PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA ANNOUNCES A NEW LITERARY AWARD
21 April 2009
Penguin Books announced today a new literary award for writers from the African continent. The Penguin Prize for African Writing has two categories: a previously unpublished full-length work of adult fiction and one of non-fiction. The prize in each category will be R50 000 and [...]
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For the fifth year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of
25 finalist nominations in the ‘Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of
Internet and Politics’ competition.
Whether it’s Kenya’s electoral crisis or the mass killings in Darfur,
Pambazuka News is the source of authentic voices of Africa’s social
activists and analysts – a platform for voices [...]
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A short clip from Paradise Lost – A film on belonging and what really matters!
Paradise Lost Clip from BlackmanVision on Vimeo.
A BlackManVision Blog
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Victor Mukasa discusses being a LGBT activist in Uganda and coming out first as a lesbian and than as transgender.
“It wasn’t easy and it is still not easy,” he said, adding that he still goes back to his native land when necessary. “Uganda is my home, I was born and bred there. For 32 [...]
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The slides were prepared by HE Ross – Black American maritime historian and sailor. The montage forcues on the British coming to the Americas without the African theme which will follow later. NOTE: THE vessels and people in the photos are British African Caribbean
Make a Smilebox slideshow
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Yesterday the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, suggested boats carrying illegal immigrants between North Africa and Europe should be sunk.
Pressed on what should happen to those on board, he said: “Throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya”.
Today the Labour government moves ever closer to the BNP agenda with [...]
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Disturbing article on the plight of elderly African women. Rural / Urban migration, increasing poverty and patriarchal cultural practices such as widow-inheritance and land ownership have left many elderly women alone in the village without traditional family support.
Older people face discrimination and abuse in a variety of forms in Africa. [...]
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An interview with Nigerian digital artist, Kenneth Shofela Coker who is based in Memphis.
We want to get to know you. Introduce yourself. Where are you from? What is your area of expertise and how did you get started in the field?
shofthumbHi, my name’s Kenneth Shofela Coker, most people call me Shof. I’m a 22 [...]
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On the 6th July 2005 US controlled occupation forces in Haiti, UN MINUSTAH, massacred citizens of Cite Soleil in an unprovoked pre-dawn raid. UN forces also assassinated human rights activist Emmanuel ‘Dread’ Wilme after criminalising him and falsely labeling him as a ‘bandit’. Hear an interview with Emmanuel ‘Dred’ Wilme and [...]
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NOT MY BUSINESS
They picked Akanni up one morning
Beat him soft like clay
And stuffed him down the belly
Of a waiting jeep.
What business of mine is it
So long they don’t take the yam
From my savouring mouth?
They came one night
Booted the whole house awake
And dragged Danladi out,
Then off to a lengthy absence.
What business of mine is it
So long [...]
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So many millions of words have been written about Michael Jackson [MJ] over the past 10 days most of which I confess I have avoided. However I feel compelled to respond to a recent post by Blackman Vision [BMV] “Michael Jackson did not want to be white”. The post is draws on a [...]
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Listen
Via Poefrika
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we all live in hope – its called survival. some times we get lost at the crossroads and end up in a maze of sadness and confusion. until we find the way out, we need not resist the sound of silence!
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Thousands of images of East Africa dated between 1860 and 1960 have been published online.
For more images see the Humphrey Winterton website
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In a landmark decision the High Court of Delhi has ruled that Secion 337 of the Indian Penal Code is unconstitutional. Section 377 which criminalises same sex relationships dates back to the 19th centuary British colonial rule in India. Although the penalty of up to 10 years in prison has rarely been used, the police [...]