Confronting rape on Zimbabwe’s border
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Watch this video on the New York Times Website about some of the atrocities women face trying to free the chaos in Zimbabwe.
Archive for March, 2009
New Titles
Thursday, March 5th, 2009DT16.5 .M54 2008.
Migrations and creative expressions in Africa and the African diaspora. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2008.
DT515.45.I33 O25 2008x.
Obiagwu, Chukwuma J. Adventures of Ojemba : the chronicle of Igbo people. Lanham : Hamilton Books, c2008.
DT1974.2 .V49 2007.
Verwoerd, Wilhelm. Equity, mercy, forgiveness : interpreting amnesty within the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Leuven, Belgium ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2007.
E185.97.G3 J36 2009.
James, C. Boyd. Garvey, Garveyism, and the antinomies in Black redemption. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2009.
HC890.Z9 P6354 2008.
Fox, M. Louise. Beating the odds : sustaining inclusion in Mozambique’s growing economy. Washington, DC : World Bank, c2008.
HD966 .M69 2008x.
Moyo, Sam. African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state : contradictions of neo-liberal land reforms. Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2008.
HD9577.A2 C53 2008x.
Clarke, Duncan. Crude continent : the struggle for Africa’s oil prize. London : Profile, 2008.
HM846 .H38 2008x.
Haupt, Adam. Stealing empire : P2P, intellectual property and hip-hop subversion. Cape Town : Human Sciences Research Council, 2008.
HQ75.16.A35 U68 2008x.
Unspoken facts : a history of homosexualities in Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe : Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), c2008.
PR9369.3.G28 I47 2008x.
Galgut, Damon. The impostor. 1st American ed. New York : Black Cat, c2008.
PR9369.3.M3358 D6 2008x.
Majeke, Nosipho. Don’t tread on my dreams : tales from South Africa. Johannesburg : Penguin, 2008.
PR9369.4.B46 P67 2008x.
Bennett, Jane. Porcupine : short stories. 1st ed. Cape Town : Kwela, 2008.
PR9390.9.M53 C47 2008.
Michot, Lucy. Chinongwa. Johannesburg : STE Publishers, c2008.
As Once-Admired Schools Wither, Zimbabwe’s Young Are Left Idle
Thursday, March 5th, 2009From The Washington Post:
On many weekdays last year, Kundai Kanyemba, 16, donned his high school uniform, sat in the library and studied textbooks titled “Geography Today,” “Focus on English” and “General Mathematics,” tattered volumes he hoped would prepare him for year-end exams. There was no one to ask whether he had selected the right books — teachers were on strike because their salaries had become pittances… Continue Reading
