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A blog by blacklooks

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Pan African Politica & Cultural Blog

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Blacklooks ranks 11 in Africa and 1 in Nigeria. According to site visitors it ranks 60, and 86 according to page views:

According to blogroll links it ranks 17 and 22 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts

Howls of protest at Dennis Brutus concert

Written by John Chimunhu, Monday, 08 February 2010 10:53 HARARE – A memorial concert for the late Zimbabwe-born South African poet, academic and social activist, Dennis Brutus, turned into a howl of protest against President Robert Mugabe’s social policies. The event on January 29 was organised by Zimcodd, Magamba Cultural

Published on Feb 9, 2010, 9:34 am

Interview with Haitian activist Rea Dol

Rea Dol is grassroots community organiser and founder of SOPUDEP school in Port-au-Prince. Shortly after the earthquake they had to abandon the school which was being used as a shelter due to the stench of dead bodies and sturtural damage which made the building unsafe. For

Published on Feb 8, 2010, 5:24 pm

Henrietta Lacks: Stolen cells

I never heard of Henrietta Lacks until a few days ago. But I have heard of the Tuskeegee Experiment in which 399 Black men were used as clinical samples for studying the late stages of syphilis. The men who were poor sharecroppers from Alabama, where never told they

Published on Feb 7, 2010, 4:27 pm

Seun on Fela

After intensive pressure from members of the National Assembly, the media, trade unions, political activists and the Nigerian people, President Yar’Adua has agreed to hand over the Presidency to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan. I think Fela would have loved this – the beginnings of “people power” in

Published on Feb 6, 2010, 6:23 pm

Death of a language & invasions of the mind

Boa Sr, the last speaker of Bo’, “one of the ten Great Andamanese languages has died”. The death of Boa Sr and the language she spoke is the end of 65,000 years of linguistic heritage and culture. It is estimated that a language dies every two weeks and by

Published on Feb 5, 2010, 2:55 pm

Kampala – Uganda – “Desperate. Distraught”

From Uganda, Gay Uganda reports on continuing police harassment and roundups of LGBT people – “knock on the door” Desperate. Distraught. Now, the knock early morning on the door. We say we shall run. But, what if we cannot run? We have family, jobs, businesses. We are normal

Published on Feb 3, 2010, 3:00 pm

Nigerian soldiers killing civilians

Nigeria soldiers shooting defenseless civilians Jos, Plateau State one year ago. Viewer Discretion is Advised – Sahara Reporters. By late tomorrow dozens of Nigerian asylum seekers will be deported from the UK Why do people flee Nigeria? In its 2009 World Report, Human Rights Watch maintained that

Published on Feb 2, 2010, 9:50 pm

Poem for Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

The Weapon for Nelson Mandela As you took up arms, ntate, we stood by and admired your guns and your uniform, while you prepared to mount the country to kill railways and post-offices, we nodded agreement, we acknowledged how the continent was a pistol facing earthward, with the trigger right

Published on Feb 2, 2010, 4:17 pm

UN: Human Rights Violations Against LGBTI People

Victor Mukasa’s presentation to the UN on “Grave Human Rights Violations Against LGBT People in Africa”

Published on Feb 1, 2010, 6:07 pm

There’s always music, always hope

Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Canada Via, Women and Beyond

Published on Jan 31, 2010, 4:44 pm

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