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In a review of ‘Haki Zetu: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Practice’, Hakim Mbanzamihigo writes that the ‘handbook could be a useful tool for the promotion of ESCR at the most local level’.

Gaddafi agrees to negotiate…

Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) in session.

Tank versus protest placard…

According to the novelist Helon Habila, editor of Granta’s forthcoming Book of African Short Stories, to put together a collection representing every African language, people and nation is impossible. Instead, Habila has compiled Granta’s new collection to showcase what he sees as a ‘new generation’ of emerging African short story writers.

The end of the world is nigh!

From the man who walked on water...

Kenya to the rescue?

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Jermain Ostiana argues that bringing Curaçaoan abolitionist leader Tula to the silver screen should be done by local producers, not the world’s mainstream film industry.

NATO is agreed that Gaddafi must go, but...

A sign of cordial relations between Rwanda and Uganda?

Fellowships and residences play a crucial role in nurturing the talent of budding writers. But although Africa is full of creative and highly innovative individuals, it lacks avenues to support them. The ‘plain truth’, says Mildred K. Barya, ‘is that we need them so we have to create them.’

Stressing the need to turn the publishing sector and the concept of freedom of speech on their head, Jared Sacks discusses the ideas behind ‘No Land! No House! No Vote!’, a book produced by the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers in South Africa. With the group seeking support to bring their story and struggle to the wider world, readers are invited to make donations at:

On the occasion of the 49th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence, Caribbean Political Economy as reproduced Bert Tucker’s lyrical account of Jamaica’s political climate and cultural ferment in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mr. Tucker, now Ambassador for Foreign Trade and Head of International Cooperation in the Government of Belize, was a student on the Mona Campus of the UWI at the time. As Caribbean Political Economy notes, the reflection was written on the occasion of Jamaica's 38th Anniversary of Independence on 6 August 2000, but has the same freshness and resonance now as it did then.

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Chuma Nwokolo revisits a childhood library and is shocked at its deterioration. 'It is great to have a completed central bank project and a new airport, but how about a time frame for a public library?'

Graffiti is suddenly all over Cairo - on schools, on telephone exchange boxes, on empty walls and corrugated fencing around building sites, reports the New Yorker magazine. 'Daubs of slogans, finely rendered panoramas of Tahrir Square, and, increasingly, the kind of biting satire and subversion...' There's a great gallery of the graffiti at the top of this article, with 25 scrollable images.