The wave of rebellion continues across the Middle East and North Africa, with Bahrain and Libya being the latest to hold the gaze of the international media. Where all this will lead us is still unclear, and I continue to react with equal parts optimism and dread. There is no question that this is an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
Watching Libya
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Africa, Middle East, Politics, Resistance on February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Biko
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Africa, Resistance, Southern Africa on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am thinking of Steven Biko. Student leader and a central figure of the anti-apartheid struggle in the mid-1970s, Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement. He spoke a very different language that that of the better-known ANC – a language not of multi-racial organizing, but of autonomy; a language not intended to bring whites [...]
Solidarities and Rages
Posted in Political Stuff, tagged Africa, History, Resistance, Southern Africa, The Left, Zimbabwe on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is what I wake up to. News out of South Africa that 12 people – most likely all Zimbabweans forced into economic or political exile – have been killed in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg. Yeah, free South Africa. I’ve never travelled to S.A., but Zimbabwe I know quite well. I know [...]
It Was 20 Years Ago Today…
Posted in Misc., Political Stuff, tagged Africa, Southern Africa, The Left, Zimbabwe on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As my daughter writes to her pen-pals in Zimbabwe, I’ve been watching that country’s elections quite closely. And I’ve been thinking alot about friends and loved ones, from those I can still reach, those who have lost their lives to austerity and AIDS, those who have simply disappeared in everything that preceded this still-unsettled [...]
