Archive for September, 2008
AfriPod
By ACAS | 29 September 2008
Peter Alegi, a historian based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, like most Africanists, was frustrated with the way media cover African topics. So he took matters into his own hands utilizing new technologies.
New Journal on Law, Social Justice and Global Development
By ACAS | 29 September 2008
The first issue of LGD, Law, Social Justice and Global Development, a new electronic law journal published by Warwick University, is now available online.
West African journalists fight back
By ACAS | 29 September 2008
The Committee to Protect Journalists (which has a dedicated Africa-page on their website) has an update on media developments in West Africa.
Niger Delta update
By ACAS | 26 September 2008
Nigerian activist Nnimmo Bassey this week told a US Senate hearing on human rights about abuses by security forces working for Chevron Corporation.
Humanitarian Crisis Deepens as Peace Process Falters in DR Congo
By ACAS | 25 September 2008
Renewed combat in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has caused a drastic deterioration in the humanitarian situation and immense suffering for civilians, the Congo Advocacy Coalition, a group of 83 aid agencies and human rights groups, said today. The coalition called for urgent action to improve protection of civilians and an immediate increase in assistance to vulnerable populations.
South Africa in Africa
By ACAS | 25 September 2008
Tanzanian scholar and social critic Issa Shivji has likened South African capital’s invasion in the rest of the African continent to a “second wave of primitive accumulation.”
Crisis Group Proposes A New Conflict Resolution Framework for Chad
By ACAS | 25 September 2008
The political and security crisis Chad faces is internal, and has been exacerbated rather than caused by the meddling of its Sudanese neighbours.
What next in South Africa
By Sean Jacobs | 24 September 2008
Sean Jacobs (Concerned Africa Scholars co-chair), writes about the end of the Mbeki-era and its aftermath at The Guardian Online.
Dennis Brutus explains the Mbeki resignation
By ACAS | 24 September 2008
South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus speaks to New York City-based TV news show, Democracy Now!, about the political developments of the last week in South Africa.
New Dictionary of African Biography
By ACAS | 24 September 2008
Oxford University Press and Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research have announced an ambitious new project, the Dictionary of African Biography, that will include 5,000 entries both online and in print editions. The General Editors of the project are two Harvard faculty, Henry Louis Gates and Emmanuel Akyeampong.
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