Macroeconomic Impact of Capital Flight on sub-Saharan Countries. Africa's propaganda trail. Africa's propaganda trail, part I: The missing millions of Kibera. Kibera's slums assault the senses like a barbeque in a hot toilet.
Raw waste carves gullies along the ragged ribbons of bare earth that serve as side streets and alleys, where children crawl and play in dirt you wouldn't step in unless you had to; for all my cringing, nobody seemed to mind much. Africa's propaganda trail, part II: Kidnapped at birth. It took little more than a century for Nairobi's sprawling mass to erupt from the highland savannahs of central Kenya.
Commercial towers thrust upwards from the central core, flanked to the east and west by suburbs that flow for miles before eventually giving way to farms and grasslands - yellow or green depending on the season. Kenya's economy is booming, boosted by a lively and innovative tech industry; but while evidence of new money can be seen almost everywhere you look, only a small minority of the city's three million inhabitants ever get to touch it. The rich tend to live to the north and west of the city centre, where meandering roads trail through green suburbs dotted with gleaming villas and bright blue pools.
Or at least, that's what we might have seen were it not for the gated roads, security guards and imposing walls topped with barbed wire. Driving through one day our Kiberan fixer, Jobe, asked me if this was what Europe looked like. The basics were clear enough. Africa's propaganda trail, part III: Grandma Obama's support for domestic violence. President Obama's angry granny stared impassively into the distance, as her rabbits relentlessly fucked each other around us.
One ventured near her ankle, as if wondering whether to hump it. "Should I hump it? " the rabbit asked, and it dawned on me that sleep deprivation and whatever sickness had begun to take root in my gut were beginning to affect my brain in unexpected and disturbing ways. The militarisation of poverty in Africa. Kingston, Canada - Over the past year, Africa has seen the decomposition of states from coast to coast.
A belt of war, coups and large-scale spontaneous demonstrations has emerged across the Sahel, from Guinea-Bissau to Somalia. The situation represents a significant global security threat, which for some will justify the increasing militarisation of the continent. These political processes have a variety of localised causes, yet they have some commonalities. All of them emerge in a context of failed agricultural markets and a boom in mineral and oil extraction.
Fundamentalist Islam is merely a complicating factor: not a cause, so much as a response to the destabilisation we are seeing. It is not a coincidence that African governments are falling apart while Europe and North America are facing financial crisis. Is Africa rising or flailing? Toby Moorsom 2011-09-14, Issue 547 Printer friendly version.
Viewpoint: Binyavanga on why Africa's international image is unfair. 24 April 2012Last updated at 05:17 ET Should Madonna be Africa's president?
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and a past winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, argues that the world has got its image of Africa very badly wrong. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote Africa's image in the West, and Africa's image to itself, are often crude, childish drawings of reality” End Quote Let us imagine that Africa was really like it is shown in the international media. Africa would be a country. Exploitation of African seas and fisheries: time to stop turning a blind eye – By Bob Dewar. Interests of the poor coastal communities and the fishermen with smaller boats and less damaging gear are usually overlooked The history of Europe’s fishing agreements with African and other developing countries has been chequered.
In late 2011, there were 9 current and 5 dormant African fish protection acts (FPAs). The first phase ended in 2002 when it was acknowledged that the ‘pay, fish and go’ approach had to convert to ‘partnership agreements’. But the next phase also came up short, not least because these agreements weren’t integrated into food security or anti-poverty planning. So the 2012 reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, with stated objectives to bring (over)fished stocks to sustainable levels in order to benefit EU citizens and stewardship of the seas, is a welcome opportunity to do better.
A big challenge in today’s economic context is converting good intentions into practice. Kony: What Jason did not tell the Invisible Children. New York, NY - Only two weeks ago, Ugandan papers carried front-page reports from the highly respected Social Science Research Council of New York, accusing the Ugandan army of atrocities against civilians in the Central African Republic while on a mission to fight Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The army denied the allegations. Many in the civilian population however, especially in the north, were sceptical of the denial.
The LRA. Obama Takes on the LRA. Third Chimurenga « Ph.D. Octopus. Imagine Africa. Imagine Africa.
Published by the Pirogue Collective. Brooklyn, NY and Dakar, Senegal: Island Position, 2011. If you do a Google search for the phrase “Imagine Africa,” the results are not encouraging. Land deals. General African History.