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CODESRIA News
Report breaks misconception - Vedanta is a British company making huge profits from KCM. Key shareholders behind Zambia’s copper mines revealed. Vedanta are being opposed all over the world for undervaluing resources and violating laws. Foil Vedanta have today released a report on the operations of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Zambia. The report...
Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian sociologist and founder of the organizations Women Living Under Muslim Laws and Secularism is a Women’s Issue. In this interview, conducted by Iranian exiled feminist leader Maryam Namazie, she presents a provocative view of the controversy over the face-veil ban in France—an issue which has paradoxically seen Western...
Nelson Mandela— whose followers and admirers referred to him often by his clan name, Mandiba—passed away on 5 December 2013, at age 95. He was undoubtedly one of the most inspirational figures in the period since World War 2: a humane visionary with exemplary courage, gentle but firm in his dealings and demeanour, proud in the face of racist humiliations,...
When society uses commodities as gas and petroleum as means of creating courty’s wealth, it is imppossiple in the current symtem. In fact the discovery of natural resorces plunders Tanzanias and other Africans into a poverty trench this will be one of the main point of the coming report on gas and petroleum sector. Gas and oil both of them are...
Like many people, I was surprised to hear of Edward Snowden’s decision to leave his job and move toward Hong Kong in search of a place where he could reconcile his conscience with his understanding of humanity and the US Constitution. Ever since, I have been trying to understand how he had come to a decision that, one may be certain, others contemplated,...
Ce qui suit fut inspiré, en partie, par un article « Terrorisme publicitaire » paru dans Le Monde. (26 octobre 2013), écrit par Hans Magnus Enzensberger –traduit de l’allemand par Frédéric Joly. Selon ma lecture, l’auteur illustre comment l’humanité s’est retrouvée prisonnière d’un mode de vie carcéral dicté par un petit groupe dont les racines, contrairement à...
I would like to thank President Pedro Pires and the Amilcar Cabral Foundation for inviting me to this Forum. This is the third time I come to Praia for another scholarly forum on the exemplary life and work of Amilcar Cabral, following the international symposia of 1983 and 2004. Building on my contribution to the second symposium, which is in line...
I would like to thank Ahmed Samatar for organizing this roundtable and inviting me to speak. I am not going to dwell on the first two questions – what is leadership and if and why it is important – in order to go directly to the lessons we have learned about leadership in Africa during the last 50 years. Since the ASA is made up of very smart people, I am...
Il se compose de trois parties : I - Les conditions objectives de la révolution. II - Le mouvement intégriste fait main basse sur l’appareil de l’état. III - Les luttes populaires et démocratiques Révolution tunisienne-fascisation intégriste-luttes populaires I - Les conditions objectives de la révolution Il est clairement établi que tous les mouvements...
Paul Elvic BATCHOM Introduction : Pourquoi un Etat adhère-t-il à une position collective dans le cadre d’une institution internationale et affiche au plan interne une conduite contraire ? Pourquoi certains Etats africains, ayant adhéré à la position de l’Union africaine quant aux mandats d’arrêt émis par la CPI contre les présidents El Béchir et Kadhafi...