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CULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Old Master Challenges Film-makers to Look Within By Michael Chebud ADDIS ABABA - Haile Gerima's film "Teza" may only have come to the world's attention when it won Africa’s highest prize in Ouagadougou on Mar. 7, but it has been a sensation in his native Ethiopia since it premiered in Addis Ababa at the start of the year. MORE >>
TRADE-TANZANIA: Crafts Charity Disproves Myths About Disability By Sarah McGregor IRINGA, Tanzania - After Joel Haule developed a crippling childhood disease that left him wheelchair-bound, his parents began calling him ‘‘Matatizo’’, the Kiswahili word for ‘‘problems’’. MORE >>
Q&A: ‘‘The Market Is Not God And We Are Not At Its Mercy’’ Faith Manuel interviews ALLAN BOESAK, former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and anti-apartheid cleric CAPE TOWN - Churches from South Africa and Germany are critically interrogating neoliberal globalisation in a process that they want to take up to United Nations level and also to their congregations ‘‘to build responsibility among people for what is happening in their world’’. MORE >>
RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Renewed Efforts to End Violence Against Women By Amina Barakat RABAT - The campaign against violence towards women has been the focus of media attention in Morocco recently, in order to press for an end to gross abuses committed by men against women and make victims aware of the need to break the silence which allows it to continue. MORE >>
CULTURE: Ethiopian Film Takes Top Honours at FESPACO By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - Filmmaker Haile Gerima’s Ethiopian movie "Teza" has won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the 21st Panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television (Fespaco) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. MORE >>
KENYA: Words that Reshape a Country’s Identity Kristin Palitza interviews BILLY KAHORA, editor of Kenyan journal Kwani? DURBAN - The goal is ambitious: Kenya’s first literary journal, Kwani?, wants to bring new thinking to the country - and ultimately the continent - and reshape African identities. The journal aims to provoke, create, entertain and develop a literary community that isn’t afraid to question the status quo. MORE >>
LIBERIA: Even the Devil is Subject to the Law By Rebecca Murray Monrovia and Harper, LIBERIA - Tiny 14-year-old Precious sits on her orphanage bed in the southern port town of Harper, accused of witchcraft six months ago and exiled from her family and nearby community. MORE >>
CULTURE-NIGERIA: Award-Winning Film Lands Director in Jail By Carmen McCain KANO - The first time I visited award-winning Northern Nigerian filmmaker Hamisu Lamido Iyan-Tama in prison, a week after his arrest, the former Kano State gubernatorial candidate seemed to be in high spirits. MORE >>
ECONOMY: Germany Helping South Africa With 2010 Soccer World Cup? By Julio Godoy BERLIN - As the building of new soccer stadiums and transport infrastructure in South Africa steams ahead, little seems to have come of the agreed assistance by the host of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Germany, to the 2010 FIFA World Cup host, South Africa. MORE >>
TRADE-UGANDA: ‘‘Green’’ Burial Cloth Gets New Lease on Life By Wambi Michael KAMPALA - Bark cloth, a fabric historically used by the Buganda in central Uganda to wrap their dead before burial, is making a comeback in the form of trendy crafts, clothing and household goods. MORE >>
CULTURE-NIGERIA: Dance Draws Young Into Museum By Amina Ahmed KANO, Nigeria - On any weekday evening in the heart of Kano’s Old City, the sounds of a koroso dance troupe can be heard from within the maroon walls of the Gidan Makama Museum. MORE >>
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