There are five weeks until Rio+20 where the world's focus will be on the trifecta of food, land and climate. Pambazuka and GRAIN have come together to bring you The Great Food Robbery, crucial reading in the lead up to this event.
Read today's press release from GRAIN and Pambazuka here.
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Hear Sylvia Tamale in London this May!
Sylvia Tamale, editor of the acclaimed African Sexualities, will be speaking in a panel discussion on "Advancing Sexual Rights in the "Developing World": The Politics of Human Rights Interventionism". The event will take place from 6:30pm, 10 May 2012, at the Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London.
To reserve a place at the event, please email: administrator@hrla.org.uk
40th anniversary of Idi Amin's expulsion of Uganda Asians
Pambazuka Press are partnering with Refugee Resource in Oxford and with Coventry Refugee Centre to celebrate the launch of From Citizen to Refugee. Mahmood Mamdani's vivid autobiographical account tells a story that will be familiar to refugees and those seeking asylum in Britain today.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Rodney's groundbreaking analysis shows how the wealthy countries and international capitalism bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. This classic remains an essential introduction to the dynamics of Africa's relations with the West.
African Sexualities
A Reader
Sylvia Tamale
A groundbreaking book, accessible but scholarly, by African activists. It uses research, life stories and artistic expression to examine dominant and deviant sexualities, and investigate the intersections between sex, power, masculinities and femininities
African Awakening
The Emerging Revolutions
The tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have seized the attention of media but what about the rest of Africa? With incisive contributions from across the continent, "African Awakening" presents the 2011 uprisings in their African context.
Demystifying Aid
Yash Tandon
This pamphlet shows that 'development aid' is not what it purports to be - the effects of actions of well-meaning allies in the North who support aid to Africa for reasons of ethics or solidarity are, unfortunately, the opposite of their good intentions.
Women and Security Governance in Africa
Debates about security governance in Africa and about the place of women within it have moved in parallel despite their interconnection. The authors align them, locating African-specific and feminist analysis within the security discourse.
Confronting Female Genital Mutilation
The Role of Youth and ICTs in Changing Africa
Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla, Joëlle Palmieri
Report of an innovative project with girls and boys in West Africa to explore how using ICTs might contribute to the rejection of female genital mutilation. It shows how putting young people and gender at the centre of development can produce real change.
To Cook a Continent
Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa
Nnimmo Bassey
Exploiting Africa's resources has delivered huge profits to the North and huge damage to Africa's environment and economies. Overcoming the crises of environment and climate change means also confronting corporate profiteering and resource extraction.
China and Angola
A Marriage of Convenience?
Despite the escalation of co-operation between China and Angola and the explosion of interest in China's broader engagement with Africa, the terms and implications of the China-Angola partnership remain unclear. This illuminating books reveals all.
Maldevelopment
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Samir Amin
Samir Amin explains the complex changes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including the transformations in Eastern Europe and in the world economy, the growth of capitalism in China and the West's materialist goals being increasingly questioned.
Earth Grab
Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes
ETC Group
As greedy eyes focus on the global South's resources this book 'pulls back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.
India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power
India's growing interactions with Africa call for analysis. Drawing on case studies, this book focuses on the interrelated areas of trade and investment, geopolitics and diplomacy, development cooperation, and identity and citizenship.
From Citizen to Refugee
Uganda Asians come to Britain
Mahmood Mamdani
Forty years after the 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda, this vivid account interweaves gripping personal stories with an examination of Uganda's colonial history, the evolution of post-independence politics and the politicisation of racial identity.
The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era
Primitive Accumulation and the Peasantry
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Capitalism manoeuvres to control agricultural production in developing countries where neoliberalism has already decreased food security. Unless the land rights of small producers are defended, their active resistance will undermine political stability.
Tax Us If You Can
Why Africa Should Stand Up for Tax Justice
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Regressive taxes and ineffective administration undermine tax systems, and loopholes and secrecy jurisdictions enable multinationals to evade tax. This short book sets out the causes and consequences of tax injustice in Africa and suggests solutions.
Ending Aid Dependence
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Tandon cautions against the aid colonialism of the rich donor countries. Developing countries dependent on aid can liberate themselves from the aid that pretends to be developmental but is not – but it requires a radical shift in their strategy.
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No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
Symphony Way pavement dwellers
'A beauty, extraordinary in every way', Naomi Klein, author of 'The Shock Doctrine'
Shack-dwelling families in Cape Town who were evicted from their homes write about the vibrant community they created on the street and their anti-eviction campaign.
Food Sovereignty
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With increasing hunger globally, people are resisting the industrialised food system and returning control to small farmers. This radical food sovereignty movement leads to increased production, safe food and agricultural practices that respect the earth.
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