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, par SlateAfrique

Le kiswahili, un joyau linguistique

Par Arnaud Bébien

Retour sur les origines et la diffusion de la langue swahilie, qui gagne du terrain en Afrique de l’Est et dans les Grands Lacs.
Des mots ou des expressions popularisés par des films et des livres. Du roman La ferme africaine de Karen Blixen, qui donna le film Out of Africa, au dessin animé de (…)

, par SlateAfrique

Les médias africains abonnés au mépris

Par Christian Eboulé

Lors de la visite à Paris du président guinéen Alpha Condé, les médias français auraient eu droit à un traitement de faveur, estime le journaliste camerounais Christian Eboulé.
Y a-t-il une communication pour les blancs, et une autre pour les noirs ? C’est, à l’évidence, l’exercice auquel (…)

African Women Writing Resistance

An Anthology of Contemporary Voices

Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez , Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, Anne Serafin, £16.95, 360 pages.
Confronting entrenched social inequality and inadequate access to resources, women across Africa are working with determination and imagination to improve their material conditions and (…)

Penser et vivre l’interculturel

Gilles Verbunt, Editions Chronique Sociale, 15€

Quelle attitude adopter lorsque des différences culturelles risquent de compromettre le vivre-ensemble ?
Quel modèle privilégier : respecter intégralement la culture des autres ou les forcer à se franciser ?
Faut-il suivre le retour en arrière d’hommes politiques qui recommencent à parler de (…)

, by Down to earth

Polavaram fraud

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened to be displaced cannot be relocated until their rights over forestland are recognised under the Forest Rights Act. How did the Andhra Pradesh government (…)

, by Tehelka

The making of Osama bin Laden

It had to happen. Osama bin Laden had been the target of the longest, most intense manhunt in history. Never before had the most powerful nation in the world concentrated so much of its time, energy and resources to hunt down one man. And never before had the hunters been able to deploy the (…)

, por TNI

Jugando con fuego

En la apuesta por la energía nuclear la humanidad se parece a la mariposa que revolotea alrededor de la llama. Al menor descuido se le queman las alas.
Los enormes riesgos y desventajas que conllevan la generación de energía nuclear no ha sido un obstáculo para su proliferación. En la (…)

, par Investig’Action

Acquis sociaux d’après-guerre : que reste-t-il ?

Par Raoul Marc Jennar

Aborder la question des valeurs, c’est, inévitablement, s’inscrire dans le débat d’idées et, s’agissant de la manière dont s’organise une société, on ne doit pas craindre d’affirmer qu’on se trouve en présence d’une véritable bataille des idées.
Certes, il peut se trouver que des valeurs (…)

, by IPS

Responsible travel means not "haggling over wooden beads"

By Hilaire Avril

Tourism as a concern found its way onto the agenda of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro because of its potential for development but also due to its adverse effects on some populations and natural resources, particularly in Africa.
Sustainable tourism was defined at the summit as tourism (…)

, by IPS

Theatre as HIV Prevention Tool in Native Communities

By Danilo Valladares

Poverty, lack of access to education and taboos about sexuality have hampered campaigns for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among indigenous communities in Guatemala. These constraints have led to the development of new ways of communicating vital information, like theatre.
"We put on a (…)

, by Indian Country Today

Indian Media is a Sovereign Right

By Joseph Orozco

Thanks to the budget-cutting fervor sweeping Capitol Hill, the Public Telecommunication Facilities Program could be zeroed out this year. The PTFP funds 75% of the construction of new stations; more than 30 new Native radio licensees were expecting PTFP public radio funds in the next two years. (…)

, por ADITAL

Conflitos envolvendo a água cresceram 93,3%, aponta estudo da CPT

Por Tatiana Félix

José Maria Filho era a maior liderança social da região da Chapada do Apodi, no interior do Ceará. Ele estava presente nas manifestações sociais denunciando as violações dos direitos humanos e, principalmente, a contaminação da água pelo uso indiscriminado de agrotóxicos na região. Por causa (…)

, by The New Economics Foundation (nef)

Subverting Safer Finance

This report argues that the UK is subverting progress towards a safer financial system, and has become a major barrier to international efforts for reform. Compared even to the US, a jurisdiction with a reputation for market friendly regulation, and other major international jurisdictions, the (…)

, par GRESEA

Terres rares, enjeu de développement

"Pas de contentieux SVP sur les terres rares" était le message chinois qui précédait le président Hu Jintao avant son départ aux Etats-Unis, en janvier 2011. Pourtant en Occident, les discours s’enveniment. Sans ces minerais, la fabrication de produits électroniques et "l’économie verte" tombent (…)

, by TNI

The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia’s historic bill

By Nick Buxton

Approval of Bolivia’s revolutionary ’Mother Earth’ law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle for real ecological transformation of their economy and society.
Approval of Bolivia’s revolutionary ’Mother Earth’ law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle (…)