Speaking Truth to Power

Part 1 Taking a stand for gender equality and justice * Ending violence against women * Mothers should not die giving life * Everyday should be a woman's day * Winnie Mandela at 70 * Can Mama Ellen deliver liberty to Liberia? Part 2 Speaking truth to power * Corrupt leaders are mass murderers * Respect term limits for democratic change * Zimbabwe: as good a place as any to draw the line * Justice for Zimbabwe regardless of the West * Mu'ammer Gaddafi: the brother leader is wrong on revolutionaries in power not retiring * Brown is wrong on Zimbabwe - but that does not make Mugabe right * Killing of John Garang: who did it? * The embarrassing grotesqueness of presidents * Does Meles think he's Africa's George Bush? * Welcome to the Latin Americanisation of Nigerian politics * Somalia: who are the real terrorists? * After Taylor, who will be next? * Africa: the many challenges to human rights in Africa * Presidency in perpetuity Part 3 Africa must unite - now! * I'm not signing up to that * East African leaders go into slow motion * Union government of Africa: it's now or never * Don't let them shave our heads from behind: mobilise for 25 May * Pan-African perspectives and the African Union * Africa without borders * From now on I say: not in my name * Pan-African parliament: finding its feet, learning to walk Part 4 Transforming cultural thought and values * Why we must struggle against xenophobia! * Don't criminalise African languages * Woza Africa! * What is in a name? * Football, Davids and Goliaths * Let's emancipate ourselves from mental slavery Part 5 The African diaspora and Africa * Obama's challenge to Africans * Obama: US president or world president? * Keep Walter Rodney alive * Hurricane Katrina: lessons for the US Part 6 Building democratic institutions in Africa * Who needs political parties? * Discussing the state of African universities * Democracy without democrats * In defence of the ten theses on leadership Part 7 Imperialism at work * Greed, pauperisation, and the free market * What can Africa expect from the G8? * Rule of law or law of the rulers? * World Social Forum winds up in Nairobi * France should be in the dock, not Kagame * Africa Day: who says slavery is dead? * Who can be trusted with nuclear weapons? * Slavery is not dead * Bye-Bye to Blair, Brown, Bob and Bono, the B stars in poverty pornography * White men in dark suits, ageing rockers and the AU summit * Live Aid 2: 'It's like trying to shave someone's head in their absence' Part 8 Africa and the world * Three years after the invasion of Iraq * There is something you can do about Lebanon * Between colonialists and China: Africa needs to forge a new path Part 9 Fighting for the Millennium Development Goals * Africa can meet and go beyond the MDGs * MDGs at midterm: is the political will there? * Stand up against poverty Part 10 For an Africa of free, equal and dignified citizens * Taking Pan-Africanism to the people * Restore to us what is naturally ours * The demand for common citizenship * Tajudeen's last Pan-African Postcard: city beautification is destroying livelihoods