Carta política da V Assembleia da ADECRU sobre a realidade das comunidades rurais e do país
Somos cidadãos e cidadãs moçambicanas entre estudantes e jovens, na sua maioria oriundos do meio rural, filhos e filhas de camponeses e camponesas de todo o País integrados e articulados na e pela…
South Africa is at an economic impasse – an interview with Mark Heywood
Mark Heywood has been one of the leaders of the Treatment Action Campaign since it started on 10 December 1998. He has also directed the AIDS Law Project since 1997 and its successor,…
A Atualidade de Moçambique Comentada, por Maria Paula Meneses
Um depoimento de Maria Paula Meneses (CES/Projeto ALICE) sobre os acontecimentos recentes em Moçambique e a propósito das eleições do próximo dia 20 de Novembro. Informação alternativa para um quadro mais completo e…
Asia in My Life: an article by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
The links between Asia and Africa and South America have always been present but in our times they have been made invisible by the fact that Europe is still the central mediator of…
Will Barack Obama get a frosty reception when he visits South Africa this weekend?
In a way, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s decision to award US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama the Freedom of the City (Cape Town’s highest honor), sort of makes…
The ZAM Chronicle: an online investigative magazine on and from Africa
This month sees the launch of The ZAM Chronicle, a new monthly online investigative magazine with a highly ambitious mission: “to be a platform for grassroots, crowd-sourced observations on and from the African…
Is violence against women too common, too ordinary to qualify as interesting?
Back in February gender-based violence dominated media and public talk when South Africans declared themselves woken up, disgusted, outraged and horrified after the rape and murder of working class, black Anene Booysen and…
Kamuzu Day and Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
Kamuzu clearly loved Malawi as a country. He took advantage of generous development aid projects of the 1960s to mid 1970s that was aimed at helping develop former European colonies to fulfill his…
África y los africanos en el espejo de los demás
Se trata ahora de rechazar cualquier forma de pensar a África y sus diásporas a partir de los demás o de la historia de los vencedores, de los que tienen el monopolio del…
Elizabeth Mpofu, de la Via Campesina: “Las mujeres podemos hacerlo”
Elizabeth Mpofu es la directora del Foro de Pequeños Campesinos Orgánicos de Zimbabwe, país donde se instalará próximamente la secretaría operativa de la Vía Campesina Internacional (hasta esta Conferencia radicada en Indonesia), y…
