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The World War on Democracy By John Pilger
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation living
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Recent Posts
- Rights for Scots, rights for Igbos By Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
- ‘Aid is a dirty word, like colonialism’ Interview by Welt-Sichten (World-Views)
- A film by Nikyatu Jusu By SOKARI
- Nigeria: Was it a 14-day dream?
- World Citizens urge greater NGO participation in Syria-Arab League Observer Mission By Rene Wadlow
- Could South Africa Become the Israel of Africa?
- Nonviolent Nigeria: the roots and routes of resistance
- A new world order on hold By Patrick Smith
- South Sudan’s Doomsday Machine By ALEX DE WAAL
- A New Awareness of Nature By Rene Wadlow
About Us
Kimpa Vita Press & Publishers is a small for non-profit and indigenous press and book Publishing Company project, established in 2008 after a meeting with young concerned artists and writers in Kampala, Uganda. Kimpa Vita Press and Publishers is established in response to the absence or impossibility to find independent scholarly publishers with a special focus on the needy, and a victim of our world torments (War, Refugees, homeless, youth, women etc�) or dedicated artist to humanity. The Kimpa Vita Press and Publishers, main vision is to promote peace, dignity and solidarity.
Knowing that it is difficult or almost impossible for upcoming writers in conflict zones or living under precarious situations such poverty to bring out their voice to be heard;
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Rights for Scots, rights for Igbos By Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
There is presently a hearty debate in Britain on the timetable for a referendum on Scottish independence or, more correctly, the restoration of Scottish independence.
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‘Aid is a dirty word, like colonialism’ Interview by Welt-Sichten (World-Views)
Yash Tandon WELT-SICHTEN: You wrote that the aid effectiveness journey since the Paris Declaration in 2005 was misguided right from the beginning. Why that? YASH TANDON: Because it was conceptualized by the donors, and not by the people that were supposed to be assisted. It was not a participatory project. When it became clear
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World Citizens urge greater NGO participation in Syria-Arab League Observer Mission By Rene Wadlow
The League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria is in an administratively critical time with the Observer Mission members from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates leaving the Mission on Tuesday 24, January. This represents 52 persons of an estimated 160, already
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A new world order on hold By Patrick Smith
Elections galore and more revolutions pending, 2012 will be an exhilarating year. Governments may fall and leaders may change in China, France, Russia, the United States, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. There will be battles aplenty between parties and ideologies. More and more protests about inequality and corruption are likely, but the year
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Activism
Rights for Scots, rights for Igbos By Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe There is presently a hearty debate in Britain on the timetable for a referendum on Scottish independence or, more correctly, the restoration of Scottish independence.
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By Jacques Depelchin, Ota Benga There are times when something outrageous happens, such as the illegal arrest of 150-200 Congolese in Yeoville (Johannesburg january
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reflection
‘Aid is a dirty word, like colonialism’ Interview by Welt-Sichten (World-Views) Yash Tandon WELT-SICHTEN: You wrote that the aid effectiveness journey since the Paris Declaration in 2005 was misguided right from the beginning. Why that? YASH TANDON: Because it was conceptualized by the donors, and not by the people that were supposed to be assisted. It was not a participatory project. When it became clear
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By Sokari Ekine, Pambazuka Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? Was it just a brief moment in our history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different? Or has there been a permanent shift in consciousness? Emmanuel Iduma likens Nigeria’s 14-day revolt to a dream from which we awoke and returned to
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culture
A film by Nikyatu Jusu By SOKARI I was excited to come across [Via Shadow and Act] “Say Grace Before Drowning” a film by Sierra Leonean/American Nikyatu Jusu. The film tells the story about a woman’s struggle to overcome the insanity of war as she tries to adjust to a life in exile. Whatever positive expectations Grace had about her new life, including
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16 October—World Food Day —World Citizen Action By Rene Waldow Since the hungry billion in the world community believe that we can all eat if we set our common house in order, they believe also that it is unjust that some men die because it is too much trouble to arrange for them to live. Stringfellow Barr Citizens of the World (1952) A central theme
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