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Issue No. 278 (Oct 2013)
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COVER:
Africa at 50: Some Perspectives
Africa
50 years on, from unity to union
The
challenges that dogged the Pan-African attempt at unity 50 years ago
have lingered.
By Cornelius
Adedze
Africa
at 50: Five major tasks ahead
The
Prime Minister of Ethiopia and Chairperson of the African Union identifies
five major tasks ahead for the continent's leadership.
By Hailemariam Dessalegn
The
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
The
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale marked the beginning of the end of minority
rule in Southern Africa, the dismantling of the apartheid system and
the total liberation of Africa from European occupation.
By Dennis Laumann
How
Africa is scrambling for Africa
African
leaders are intent on breaking down colonial-era boundaries and reassembling
the continent around common economic interests.
By Daniel
K Kalinaki
Africa
has entered a new season of planning and long-term development thinking
After
a long hiatus, many African countries have now reverted to development
planning and long-term development thinking.
By Adebayo
Olukoshi
Industrialisation
is an imperative for Africa
Africa
must go beyond being an exporter of commodities and raw materials and
embark on industrialisation.
By Kingsley
Ighobor
Africa
strives to move from neo-colonial mining mode
The
Africa Mining Vision is an example of the 'breakout' from the mining
enclave, a neo-colonial enterprise, to transformative industry through
the struggle to control Africa's resources.
By Alhassan
Atta-Quayson
Emerging
trends in political violence in Africa
Political
violence tied to electoral competition, along with a contest over livelihood
resources, pose major threats to the well-being of Africa’s population
and its young democracies.
By Kwesi W Obeng
Asking
the wrong questions: Did the Arab revolutions fail?
The
vicissitudes of popular revolts against autocratic rulers in some Arab
countries of Northern Africa have provoked some hasty judgments and
comments as to their outcome.
By Ramzy Baroud
The
Maputo Protocol: Its potential for a revolution in women's rights
How
significant has the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples'
Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, been in advancing the cause
of gender equality in the continent?
By Moreen Majiwa
Reversing
the downward spiral in Africa's rural sector
Multifunctional
agriculture that simultaneously rehabilitates degraded farmlands and
diversifies poor smallholder farming systems with indigenous species
of trees may hold the key to boosting the incomes and livelihoods of
Africa's rural poor.
By Roger Leakey
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ECOLOGY
Open
for business?
As
Myanmar transitions to democracy after decades of military rule, its
increasingly vocal civil society is scrambling to protect forests
and farmland from rapacious development.
By Mike Ives
ECONOMICS
The
man who won a Nobel for helping create a global financial crisis
The award of the Nobel Prize for economics to Eugene Fama (along
with two other recipients) came as something of a shock as it was
his theory of 'efficient financial markets' which helped to create
the 2007 financial crisis.
By James
R Crotty
VIEWPOINT
The
wisdom we have lost in knowledge
While
the harvest of information reaped by its spy agency, the National
Security Agency, may prove invaluable to the US in individual cases,
its sheer volume may defy analysis.
By Jeremy Seabrook
WORLD AFFAIRS
In
bed with the bully: Consensual US surveillance in Mexico
While the relevations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden of US
surveillance of national leaders and officials drew a furious response
in some affected countries, it required only a bare assurance of an
'investigation' by President Obama to assuage his Mexican counterpart.
By Peter Watt
HUMAN RIGHTS
Poverty
and racism inextricably linked, says UN expert
A
UN rights expert has emphasised that poverty is closely associated
with racism and contributes to the persistence of racist attitudes
and practices which in turn generate more poverty.
By Kanaga Raja
WOMEN
Trading
women for profit
Trafficking
is the extreme inevitability of a distorted economic system which
fuels inequality and encourages profiteering, greed and the exploitation
of the most vulnerable members of society.
By Graham Peebles
TRIBUTE
Gamani
Corea (1925-2013) - A tribute
A
tribute to a 'champion of the global South'.
By Chakravarthi Raghavan
ANNIVERSARY
The
silenced voices of history: Asian workers on the Death Railway
The
unspeakable plight of the numberless Asian workers who were involved
in the construction of the notorious ‘Death Railway’ has generally
been ignored.
By David Boggett
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