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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 636: LIES OF EMPIRE, OBAMA IN AFRICA AND TALKING TO THE ENEMY The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. African Writers' Corner, 6. Jobs /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features CONTEXTUALIZING OBAMA'S VISIT TO AFRICA Horace G. Campbell In recent years, the United States has increasingly been sidelined in areas of deep economic transformation in Africa because US engagement with Africa has been primarily through militarism and military relations. The current visit of US President Barack Obama to Africa should be viewed against this background. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/88001 ****** US-TALIBAN TALKS: A LESSON FOR KAGAME AND MUSEVENI Why US-Taliban talks should open the way for Kagame-FDLR, Museveni-LRA dialogue Antoine Roger Lokongo The current US-Taliban talks now remove any pretexts Kagame and Museveni might have not to talk to the FDLR and to the LRA, respectively. Tanzanian President, Jakaya Kikwete's proposal for talks involving all parties in the Great Lakes region to find a permanent political solution to the problems of the region must be urgently heeded http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87995 ****** WALTER RODNEY IN TANZANIA: A TRIBUTE Issa Shivji Walter was an institution. He left a huge shadow on the left, on the African left, and in Tanzania itself. His own learning and foundation were laid in the east African nation http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87997 ****** INTERNATIONAL DISCOURSE ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS SECURITY THREAT IN CONGO Leila van Rinsum Without identifying the structural causes of sexual violence which emanate from cultural, political and economic factors on the national and global scale, the problem will remain. Sexual violence has been feminized, though it includes men and is not an isolated crime during war time but normalised and systematised as highlighted in the Congo http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87996 ****** WHERE ARE THE 400 BENIN BRONZES? Kwame Opoku Many museums in Europe and America are facing a financial crisis and from recent reports, it would not be unreasonable to assume that they may be tempted to sell, loan, transfer, or exchange African artefacts they are illegally holding, such as the Benin bronzes without anybody taking much notice http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87999 ****** EVALUATING THE DUAL CITIZENSHIP-STATE-BUILDING-NATION-BUILDING NEXUS IN LIBERIA Robtel Neajai Pailey Post-conflict reconstruction in Liberia has primarily focused on building state structures at the expense of solidifying national cohesion. The author contends that in this context the proposed dual citizenship legislation should undergo national deliberations, beginning with the Liberia Rising 2030 consultations http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87998 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements SPECIAL ISSUE ON BRAZIL IN AFRICA: CALL FOR ARTICLES Pambazuka News is planning a special issue on 'BRAZIL IN AFRICA' As we reach an audience of approximately 26,000 subscribers weekly, we are calling on our readers and writers to submit articles for this special issue to cover any of the following themes (or a theme or issue of your choice): * The historical links between Brazil and Africa * South-South geopolitical links between Africa and Brazil via BRICS * Issues relating to gender, youth, multinationals, social justice, environmental issues, the media, cultural links (i.e. music, literature, the arts) between Brazil and Africa * Ideas on how to advance greater links and understanding between Brazil and Africa Texts must be submitted to: [email protected] or [email protected] WORD LENGTH: Texts must be between 1000-3000 words DEADLINE: is 30th June 2013 for submission Your name and a two line bio must be submitted at the end of the article. THE EDITORS ****** YASH TANDON'S WEBSITE LAUNCHED Yash Tandon's website ( http://www.yashtandon.com ) was launched on 21 June. It is the beginning of the digital repository of his life's writings. Tandon, who has contributed more than 40 articles to Pambazuka News, is from Uganda and has worked at many different levels as an academic, a teacher, a political thinker, a rural development worker, a civil society activist and an institution builder. He was involved in the democratic struggles in Uganda and was member of the interim Uganda Parliament (1979-80). ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis AN OPEN LETTER TO NELSON MANDELA Ben Trovato 'I would like to see you make enough of a recovery to flirt with a nurse, shout at a doctor, condemn the ANC for tolerating incompetence and fostering corruption, and send the journalists sloping back to their lairs thinking it's another false alarm. Then, quite unexpectedly, you go off to heaven to organise an armed uprising against the tyranny of God' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88004 ****** BEYOND RHETORIC: DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD Stanley Ibe As we celebrate the 23rd edition of the Day of the African Child (DAC), it is fitting to consider how to ensure better protection for the African child in view of new and emerging harmful social and cultural practices hampering their development. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88002 ****** BEYOND THE BIG STICK, CHEQUE BOOK AND GUNBOATS An open memo to President Obama on his visit to Africa Theogene Rudasingwa How will Africans remember President Obama? How can his current visit to the continent create value for African and the American people? Here is some open advice http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88003 ****** HOW TO INFLUENCE POLICY Joseph Ingram Although the recent forum on Africa in Ottawa did not solve all the issues surrounding foreign natural resource extraction in one sitting, it did get policy-makers listening, which is the first step to bringing about meaningful policy change http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88005 ****** ICC: KENYA'S IS A LOSE-LOSE STRATEGY Wachira Maina The Kenya government's frenetic and wasteful sorties to the UN and AU trying to stop the ICC cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto show, if proof were needed, just how easy it is to be busy without being productive http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88006 ****** PAYBACK FOR COLONIAL SINS Sreeram Chaulia Britain's recent offer of #20 million to survivors of Kenya's Mau Mau anti-colonial revolt though a somewhat good idea reopens the vexed question of the impact of British colonial rule in Africa and other parts of the world http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88000 ****** TANZANIA TOLD TO SEVERE LINK WITH MONSANTO Nizar Visram Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete is an enthusiastic supporter of Monsanto, but now pressure is mounting on his government to reject GMO technologies as solutions to end hunger http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/88008 ****** THE LIES OF EMPIRE: DON'T BELIEVE A WORD THEY SAY Glen Ford The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many lives. "Why this steady stream of government-invented terror, if the real thing is so abundant?" And, isn't the U.S. arming and funding the same jihadists they are supposed to be listening for on our telephones? ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns TRIBUNAL: LANDLORDS CANNOT PROFIT OFF ELECTRICITY 'SERVICE CHARGES' Rental Housing Tribunal orders electricity "service charge" levied by a landlord to tenants illegal. Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa The Tribunal ruled that the landlord was interdicted from levying the irregular charge in future, and ordered the landlord to repay the tenants all the service charges levied against them since May 2009 http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/88009 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 African Writers' Corner HOW ABOUT 'MOTHER OF'? Chenjerai Hove A top Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist says the practice of branding men 'fathers of' certain exploits is dangerous and can contaminate the minds of the world's men and boys, entrenching patriarchy in the process http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/88010 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 Jobs OXFAM GB - ASSOCIATE COUNTRY DIRECTOR Oxfam has been making a difference in Chad since 2004. But as food prices continue to rise and conflicts both in neighbouring Sudan and Chad itself take their toll the situation has become even more serious. That's why we're refocusing our strategy and partnering with the Regional Centre, Oxfam International affiliates and other NGOs to offer a more coherent approach. And we need you to deliver it. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/87912 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. (c) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. For further details see: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/about.php Pambazuka news can be viewed online: English language edition ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en ) Edicao em lingua Portuguesa ( http://www.pambazuka.org/pt ) Edition francaise ( http://www.pambazuka.org/fr ) RSS Feeds available at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/newsfeed.php Pambazuka News is published with the support of a number of funders, details of which can be obtained here ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en/about.php ) . 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