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  • Umoja in Paris

    Posted: May 31, 2008, 1:26 am by Rethabile
    “Du 4 au 8 juin 2008 pour une série limitée de représentations, nous vous présentons ce spectacle événement ! Fabuleux, éclatant, irrésistible, ce spectacle musical sud-africain venu tout droit de Johannesburg est un pur bonheur. UMOJA, en zoulou, signifie « ensemble ». Ensemble, chaque soir, sur les scènes du monde entier, 35 artistes retracent l’histoire artistique, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Umoja in Paris", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/umoja_in_paris.html" });

  • links for 2008-05-31

    Posted: May 31, 2008, 7:32 pm by Sokari
    Democracy Now! | Interview with medical activist Dr. Paul Farmer Challenges Profit-Driven Medical System While Bringing Healthcare to Poor Communities Worldwide (tags: interviews socialjustice medicaljustice haiti) Egypt: Court Upholds HIV Sentences, Reinforces Intolerance Egypt: Court Upholds HIV Sentences, Reinforces Intolerance Five Convictions in Fear-Driven Crackdown a Blow to Health and Justice (tags: HIV Egypt prison) Nigeria churches continue to attack LGBT community (tags: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-05-31", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/links_for_2008-05-31.html" });

  • Ushahidi wins Netsquared competition!

    Posted: May 30, 2008, 4:53 pm by Sokari
    Congratulations to Ushahidi as this excellent African project has won first prize at the Net Squared Challenge competition. This is one huge prize and just shows what can be done with little resources - where there is a will there is a way. They project now has $25,000 so there is no telling where [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ushahidi wins Netsquared competition!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/ushahidi_wins_netsquared_competition.html" });

  • links for 2008-05-28

    Posted: May 28, 2008, 7:36 pm by Sokari
    Renewed attacks force IDPs back to camps (tags: refugees kenya violence) Nixon on “little negro bastards” RICHARD NIXON: We’re going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family–let people like Pat Moynihan and [special consultant] Leonard Garment and others believe in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work, (tags: Nixon USA [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-05-28", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/links_for_2008-05-28.html" });

  • Message to religion - Women and men take control of their future

    Posted: May 28, 2008, 4:03 am by Sokari
    “God is simply a name for an uncompromising commitment to equality and justice…..There is no superior to humankind….. There is no Messiah other than the people….. God is a force for resistance, resistance against Macoutes and all evils. It is better not to believe than to believe in a miracle from heaven.” Jean-Bertand [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Message to religion - Women and men take control of their future", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/message_to_religion_-_women_and_men_take_control_of_their_future.html" });

  • links for 2008-05-27

    Posted: May 27, 2008, 7:33 pm by Sokari
    Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit) (tags: privacy twitter internet socialmedia social security) DRISHTI Media, Arts, Human Rights (tags: india media humanrights video art journalism) YouTube - Moving Windmills (tags: afrigadget malawi youtube william kamkwamba) Aid workers & UN peacekeepers raping children in Haiti (tags: haiti UN NGOs rape children) SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-05-27", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/links_for_2008-05-27.html" });

  • UK court archives on African history

    Posted: May 27, 2008, 4:16 pm by Sokari
    The central criminal court in London, the Old Bailey has published court records from 1674-1913 online. The database includes records on the lives of Africans and their descendent’s in London. The defence of highwayman Joseph Guy in 1767 was that ‘There are a thousand black men in London besides me’. Unsurprisingly, most appear in criminal contexts. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "UK court archives on African history ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/uk_court_archives_on_african_history_.html" });

  • US + Halliburton + Cheney + Shell & Nigeria = corruption

    Posted: May 26, 2008, 5:53 pm by Sokari
    The bribery allegations against Halliburton’s actions in Nigeria during the Sani Abacha dicatorship have been widened to cover the past 20 years and will include investigating Halliburton’s (and presumably Dick Cheney’s - see video Cheney exposed) relationship with Shell and possibly other oil multinationals operating in Nigeria. Criminal investigations of former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "US + Halliburton + Cheney + Shell & Nigeria = corruption", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/us_halliburton_cheney_shell_nigeria_corruption.html" });

  • REFUGEE(by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers)

    Posted: May 26, 2008, 11:55 am by Rethabile
    People ask me: where is home? Last time I saw my village it was burning in the night. My house, a screaming mouth of firehot fear in the mask of darkness. My only thought was flight. Nobody here understands my language, so I speak the tongue of compromise. The grateful grammar of being alive. This is my certainty, my identity. People ask me, where is home? I say home is where the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "REFUGEE(by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers)", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/refugee_poem_xenophobia.html" });

  • We helped South Africans. Why won’t they help us?

    Posted: May 25, 2008, 1:53 am by Rethabile
    South Africa has a long history of movement of labour within the country and within the region. Have we forgotten that workers from Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland risked their lives to mine the minerals that built our country’s economy? [more…] To that I would like to add the fact that when our brothers in South [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "We helped South Africans. Why won’t they help us?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/we_helped_south_africans_why_wont_they_help_us.html" });

  • Toxic PCs

    Posted: May 25, 2008, 4:37 pm by Sokari
    The West has been using Africa to dump it’s toxic waste and unwantables for years and continues despite being illegal since 1992. In 1998 the EU implemented a ban against exportation of hazardous waste the West. [the USA, Canada and New Zealand refused to sign]. Just after the Tsunami of December 2004, barrels of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Toxic PCs", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/toxic_pcs.html" });

  • Ushahidi mapping xenophobia in africa

    Posted: May 24, 2008, 6:40 pm by Sokari
    The Ushahidi engine is being used to map xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the “United For Africa” website Tags: Xenophobia + South Africa Ushahidi SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ushahidi mapping xenophobia in africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/ushahidi_mapping_xenophobia_in_africa.html" });

  • Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot

    Posted: May 24, 2008, 2:35 pm by Sokari
    Via Poefrika This poem has a special meaning for me as I grew up in Nigeria being called “half-caste” and always despised the word and refused to acknowledge the term. Even today I meet Nigerians who continue to use the term either as a way of describing themselves or others leaving me cringing. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/half-caste_symphony_half_ear_half_head_half_foot.html" });

  • When we get cholera we must be educated about washing our hands when in fact we need clear water.

    Posted: May 23, 2008, 12:12 pm by Sokari
    No one is illegal - Abahlali baseMjondolo comment on the Xenophobic Attacks in Johannesburg We condemn the attacks, the beatings, rape and murder, in Johannesburg on people born in other countries. We will fight left and right to ensure that this does not happen here in KwaZulu-Natal. We have been warning for years that the anger of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "When we get cholera we must be educated about washing our hands when in fact we need clear water.", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/when_we_get_cholera_we_must_be_educated_about_washing_our_hands_when_in_fact_we_need_clear_water.html" });

  • - *No one is illegal -*

    Posted: May 23, 2008, 12:01 pm by Sokari
    Social Movements Indaba action against hate The Social Movements Indaba (SMI) - a co-ordinating national body of social movements, civil society and activist organizations - is organizing with its affiliated organizations and immigrant communities to roll back the groundswell of xenophobia. In the years since its formation in 2002, the SMI [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "- *No one is illegal -*", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/-_no_one_is_illegal_-.html" });

  • no fish for oil

    Posted: May 22, 2008, 12:54 pm by Sokari
    Sweet crude for shell, bitter oil for people Part 2 Tags: Niger Delta Oil Enviornment SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "no fish for oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/no_fish_for_oil.html" });

  • “the world is tragic by nature” so things fall apart?

    Posted: May 21, 2008, 4:04 am by Sokari
    A sentimental post afropanavisions left this thoughtful comment on South Africa I was so saddened, that the very people who received international solidarity to help bring about the end of the dreadful system of apartheid would turned into such monsters to hurt those who are foreign born. What a sad day it is indeed. Despite this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "\"the world is tragic by nature\" so things fall apart?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/the_world_is_tragic_by_nature_so_things_fall_apart.html" });

  • presidential madness and stupidity

    Posted: May 20, 2008, 9:32 pm by Sokari
    More presidential madness this time it’s the Gambia. The president has ordered all “homosexuals, drug dealers, thieves and other criminals, to leave The Gambia or face serious consequences if caught“. This is so ridiculous, so bloody stupid, breaks every law that exists in Gambia and human rights laws everywhere. So what happens in 24 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "presidential madness and stupidity", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/presidential_madness_and_stupidity.html" });

  • Update on the Zoliswa Nkonyana murder trial

    Posted: May 20, 2008, 3:41 pm by Sokari
    Zoliswa Nkonyana was a 19 year old lesbian woman who was brutally murdered on 4 February 2006 by a mob of 20 men of which only 9 have so far been arrested and charged. The trial has faced delay after delay and has now been scheduled for August 22nd with instructions to all defense attorneys [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Update on the Zoliswa Nkonyana murder trial", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/update_on_the_zoliswa_nkonyana_murder_trial.html" });

  • more thoughts on anti-immigraton violence

    Posted: May 20, 2008, 12:42 pm by Sokari
    Kameelah adds to the discussion on xenophobia in South Africa by linking to a number of articles in Pambazuka News and by making a connection between the violence, poverty and global food crisis. connected to this food crisis is the rise in violence against immigrants especially in south africa–joburg to be specific though cape [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "more thoughts on anti-immigraton violence ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/more_thoughts_on_anti-immigraton_violence_.html" });

  • Remembering Malcolm

    Posted: May 19, 2008, 10:48 pm by Sokari
    Rethabile remembers Malcolm X on Poefrika. It’s an easy day for me to remember as it’s also my son’s birthday. He spent the day looking at some of his maternal ancestors over at the British Museum in London meanwhile here is Rethabile’s post For Malcolm X All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remembering Malcolm", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/remembering_malcolm-2.html" });

  • Xenophobia deflects government failures

    Posted: May 19, 2008, 5:50 pm by Sokari
    My friend Beauty at “Nigeria What’s New” posted on the violence against immigrants taking place in South Africa and wonders why bloggers in the diaspora are not screaming about this horrible human rights issue since the story broke on May 1st. Good point, Beauty after all if this was happening in Spain, France, Britain or [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Xenophobia deflects government failures", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/xenophobia_deflects_government_failures.html" });

  • for Jamyang Kyi

    Posted: May 19, 2008, 2:53 am by Rethabile
    So many years, like a lens over papyrus when the sun sends rays through it and it bends them to a point that burns the surface, scribes have etched knowledge into books; a thrust of brush and a master has detailed a sketch. Reality paints itself into the picture, settles at the centre like a lump— in her eyes, Kyi the woman has a twin water-colour [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "for Jamyang Kyi", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/for_jamyang_kyi_rethabile.html" });

  • Ghada Karmi on 60 years of dispossession

    Posted: May 16, 2008, 2:13 am by Sokari
    Amy Goodman discusses the 60 years of Israeli occupation and Palestinian dispossession with Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi. The Dispossession,, Nakba displaced 750,000 Palestinians including Ghada Karmi. Her childhood memories of Palestine and her life as a refugee are chronicled in her book “In Search of Fatima” reviewed here and here. I was [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: " Ghada Karmi on 60 years of dispossession", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/_ghada_karmi_on_60_years_of_dispossession.html" });

  • Bloggers Nigerians unite for human rights

    Posted: May 15, 2008, 4:00 am by Sokari
    After spending three hours on Tuesday listening to some 30 African women asylum seekers testify about their treatment by the British government, many of whom had been imprisoned in Yarl’s Wood detention Center, I thought I would write a general piece built around their stories. However before I started I received an email [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bloggers Nigerians unite for human rights", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/bloggers_nigerians_unite_for_human_rights.html" });

  • “Sweet Crude” the poverty of oil

    Posted: May 14, 2008, 6:26 pm by Sokari
    Sandy Cioffi, director of the documentary “Sweet Crude” interviewed on Democracy Now! In this small region of Nigeria known as the “south-south,” something huge is happening. The adverse effects of oil exploration have been unfolding in the Niger Delta for the past 50 years. Now, the people have had enough. From environmental [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "\"Sweet Crude\" the poverty of oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html" });

  • Update on Eudy Simelane - tactics employed by defense attorneys

    Posted: May 14, 2008, 1:39 pm by Sokari
    Photos from the 7-7-7 Campaign The five accused of the murder of Eudy Simulane reappeared in court today. The hearing was initially delayed because accused number 5 was appearing in another court on charges of rape and robbery, which he was out on bail for . Once proceedings began, they were further bogged down [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Update on Eudy Simelane - tactics employed by defense attorneys", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/update_on_eduy_simelane_-_tactics_employed_by_defense_attorneys.html" });

  • Racist hate in Russia

    Posted: May 13, 2008, 4:02 am by Sokari
    Just over two years ago a friend of mine Kayode Ogundamisi wrote a piece “Are you a Black man? Don’t go to Russia” in which is spoke of the racism experienced by African students in Russia….. It is a shame that the Russian government is turning a blind eye on the growing level of attacks on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Racist hate in Russia", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/racist_hate_in_russia.html" });

  • Quick Links

    Posted: May 13, 2008, 3:06 am by Sokari
    W.TEC launched the Networking For Success Project in Lagos, Nigeria……….Future projects need online volunteers to act as mentors, and cash, books, software, computers. Contact W.TEC via their website. The Networking for Success project will teach women how to use Web 2.0 tools and other ICTs to effectively develop and advance their work. Participants will [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/quick_links-11.html" });

  • Happy birthday, Mazisi Kunene!

    Posted: May 12, 2008, 2:08 am by Rethabile
    Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1930 [12th of May]. He graduated from the University of Natal with a paper on traditional and modern Zulu poetry. In 1959 he obtained a grant to complete his doctoral dissertation in London. From this point on Kunene dedicated himself to the struggle [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy birthday, Mazisi Kunene!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/happy_birthday_mazisi_kunene.html" });

  • Limited campaign against sexual violence

    Posted: May 10, 2008, 12:52 am by Sokari
    Two important events from the DRC - The one month campaign against sexual violence in the DRC took place between March 17-April 17th and coincided with a new law to ending the crimininalisation of children by accusing them of witchcraft. The campaign was funded by the UN Population Fund. However the question is in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Limited campaign against sexual violence", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/limited_campaign_against_sexual_violence.html" });

  • Blood river train

    Posted: May 8, 2008, 9:59 am by Rethabile
    When time works against us and weighs at the heart somewhere in a foreign land, night turns to day, and the fashion in shop windows I pass on my way from work into djellabas, the smell of restaurants into kuskus on a market day, hands all out, stretched to acknowledge this gift, walking in the shadow of African women, men, with their fear of anchored boats on coastal fronts. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Blood river train", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/blood-river-train-rethabile.html" });

  • Bloggers Unite under Human Rights

    Posted: May 7, 2008, 3:17 pm by Sokari
    The 15th May - a day for bloggers to unite and focus on human rights everywhere. For more information Bloggers Unite. Via Devious Diva Tags: Blogging Human Rights SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bloggers Unite under Human Rights", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/bloggers_unite_under_human_rights.html" });

  • Quick Links

    Posted: May 7, 2008, 1:58 pm by Sokari
    May’s International Carnival of Pozitivities is up at dropdeadhappy. Two blog posts stand out - “Myths and misconceptions about HIV and AIDS” by The AIDS Pandemic in which he looks at some of the “old” myths and some more contemporary myths such as HIV is a “black disease” or “two positive people do not need [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/quick_links-10.html" });

  • Killers of EUDY SIMELANE appear before a packed court.

    Posted: May 5, 2008, 12:20 am by Sokari
    Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, Johannesburg, South Africa. In a packed Springs Magristrate Court C, the five young men accused of murdering Eudy Simalane appeared this morning before Acting Chief Magistrate Mandla Mthombeni. The five young men, (K. Magabhula, J. Mahlangu, T. Mvuba, T. Pitja and T. Phithi) did not have anything to say to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Killers of EUDY SIMELANE appear before a packed court. ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/killers_of_eudy_simelane_appear_before_a_packed_court_.html" });

  • Eudy Simelane: Another lesbian raped and murdered

    Posted: May 3, 2008, 5:03 pm by Sokari
    Once again another lesbian has been raped, tortured and murdered in South Africa on Monday 28th April. Sizakele Sisgasa and Salome Masooa were tortured and murdered just 10 months ago. Since then lesbians, gays and transsexuals across the continent - Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal and Cameroon, have been attacked and beaten and arrested [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Eudy Simelane: Another lesbian raped and murdered", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/eudy_simelane_another_lesbian_raped_and_murdered.html" });

  • No Visible Movement

    Posted: May 1, 2008, 3:25 am by Sokari
    In Prison The Whole Of My Life is a documentary covering the arrest, trial, imprisonment and fight for a retrial for Mumia Abu Jamal. Mumia’s is presently undergoing a complex appeal process which focuses on three major trial violations - the racism of the judge who was heard by the stenographer at [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "No Visible Movement", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/no_visible_movement.html" });
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