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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 659: NELSON MANDELA: HUMAN RIGHTS & ETHICS FOR AFRICA 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 #PambazukaNews Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Letters & Opinions /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features MANDELA AND THE AFRICAN LIBERATION STRUGGLE Ubuntu and the emancipation of humans everywhere Horace G. Campbell Those who branded Mandela as a terrorist are now seeking to program the minds of the youth to see him as some sort of messiah, without links to real struggles for peace. But Mandela was very clear that his life was linked to the collective struggles of humans everywhere http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90069 ****** TALKING ABOUT NELSON MANDELA Margaret Kimberley Nelson Mandela belongs to history now. We should be able to look at his whole life, his whole record in perspective. That perspective ought to include who is praising Nelson Mandela nowadays and why http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90018 ****** THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW CUBA HELPED END APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA Piero Gleijeses After a historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro, relations between the United States and the island nation have been put in the spotlight. Castro was one of five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela's memorial, highlighting Cuba's importance to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In this interview with Democracy Now! historian Piero Gleijeses of Johns Hopkins University puts the Obama-Castro handshake in context and discusses his new book, "Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for South Africa, 1976-1991." Gleijeses believes that Cuba had "destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor ... [and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa." Watch the interview here ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNpXUC391vc&feature=share&list=SP50BDB9BCCFAF09CA&index=3) . ****** STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF NELSON MANDELA Prisoners Reformed United One the important lessons from the life of Nelson Mandela, a former prisoner, is that ex-prisoners should be given all the support they need in order to make positive contributions to society http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90019 ****** I MOURN MANDELA Duncan Mbonjani Nelson Mandela dedicated the best of his years to the struggle for freedom of his people, whose aspirations are contained in the Freedom Charter of 1955. That struggle is not yet over and the people should not relent http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90020 ****** TO THE SPIRIT OF MANDELA Ama Biney There is no doubt about the monumental contribution of Nelson Mandela to the freedom struggle in South Africa. But still his personal life and political choices as the first black president raise troubling questions http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/89941 ****** INTERVIEW: ALICE WALKER SPEAKS ON OBAMA'S LEADERSHIP Alice Walker African-American writer and political activist Alice Walker believes President Barack Obama is a huge disappointment especially to black people in the US, many of whom had hoped that a black president would improve their fortunes http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/90021 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements CLOSING DOWN FOR YEAR-END HOLIDAYS The Editorial Team would like to notify our readers, contributors and other partners that Pambazuka News will take a break from December 20, 2013 to January 6, 2014. We will publish the next issue on Thursday, January 9, 2014. We sincerely thank you all for your generous support for Pambazuka News and look forward to continued collaboration in the coming year. Happy holidays. The Editors ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis DEBT RELIEF FOR SUDAN FROM THE NETHERLANDS: WHAT NEXT? Eric Reeves Debt relief for Sudan gives the Sudanese goverment a lifeline to continue to oppress its people. Yet, the reasons for Sudan's external indebtedness derive from various forms of corruption that many Western governments turn a blind eye to http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90013 ****** EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY MONETARY UNION: A FORMIDABLE RIVAL TO THE EUROZONE? Odomaro Mubangizi The East African Community (EAC) modeled on the EU has enormous potential and resources. Resolving political differences and harmonizing with other regional blocks remains the foremost challenges http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90009 ****** INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2013: REFLECTIONS ON THE SITUATION OF SOCIAL ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN NIGERIA Stanley Ibe Nigerians must demand that their leaders make meaningful the economic, social and political rights of ordinary people as expressed in the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights and Universal Declaration on Human Rights http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90015 ****** OBASANJO'S 'SATANIC' LETTER Chido Onumah The former president's tirade against the man he foisted on Nigerians is totally uncalled for, considering that Obasanjo's failed two-time administration laid the foundation for much of the mess Jonathan is busy consolidating http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90070 ****** THE NEED FOR AN ETHICAL AND POLITICAL DE-COLONIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS A reflection on International Human Rights Day Ajamu Baraka There is growing dissatisfaction and even mistrust of human rights as an instrument for radical social change. What is needed is a revolutionary approach to human rights informed by an analysis of the oppressive, anti-human social/historical context of national and global social relationships http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90071 ****** THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF SKIN BLEACHING IN SUDAN Hala Al-Karib The past 25 years have witnessed fundamental sociopolitical and cultural changes in Sudan. Women have been the terrain of many of the uneasy shifts in the country, even down to their skin, which they are now being encouraged to bleach http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90072 ****** THE PROBLEMS WITH 'AFRICAN SOLUTIONS' Comfort Ero The axiom 'African solutions to African problems' hides complex issues that require untangling as the problems conceal many agendas. Focusing on governance, development and institution-building will assist in future conflict prevention http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/90011 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Letters & Opinions SALUTING NELSON MANDELA, COLOSSUS OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Father of the successful African struggle for the restoration of independence in South Africa after centuries of the European conquest and occupation. This resistance is surely one of the momentous liberation upheavals of recent human history. At its apogee, we mustn't forget, quite a few seemingly influential global public figures and intellectuals had variously dismissed eventual African victory as "impossible", "couldn't achieve such a feat", "[European rule] here to stay"... What a year, this 2013 - Africa and the world have bidden farewell to the dual-colossi of 20th/21st centuries' African renaissance: Nelson Mandela and Chinua Achebe, Father of African Literature. * Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is visiting professor in graduate programme of constitutional law, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 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. 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