- Africa
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Africa: Cultural Appropriation - When 'Borrowing' Becomes Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The idea of "cultural appropriation" has recently entered mainstream debates about the ways in which African cultural creations are used, borrowed and imitated by others. In fashion, art, music and beyond, some people now argue that certain African cultural symbols and products are off-limits to non-Africans.
- Africa in Crisis
The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Book
Africa in Crisis looks at the causes of African famine and how it is a symbol of a much deeper crisis. African droughts and famines are not just the results of a lack of rain but the end result of a long deterioration in the ability of Africans to feed themselves caused by mistakes made by governments both inside and outside the continent.
- Africa in the 1990's
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
- Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An overview of the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa since independence (around 1960 for most countries).
- Africa Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to Africa in the Sources directory for the media.
- African-Americans and Black Oppressors
Resource Type: Article
- African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This book sets out to place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
- African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
- An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2006
A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Anglican Church of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Arusha Declaration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
Tanganyika African National Union's policy on Socialism and Self-Reliance.
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- Book Review: C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939, 1969)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969.
- Born Free
Resource Type: Book
- The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
The author asks the question: Is reconciliation between the oppressor and oppressed possible? To answer this the notions of simple forgiveness and confession are challenged as strategies for social healing.
- Canadian Feed The Children
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Challenging Rural Poverty
Experiences in Institution-Building and Popular Participation for Rural Development in Eastern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Challenging Rural Poverty includes papers on a range of topics reflecting the alternative development experiences of Eastern African countries. It is an attempt to unveil the causes of the "development crisis" in Africa.
- CHF
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
- Church-sponsored News Agency Delves into African Realities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1982
- 'Civilising' the 'Blacks'; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1936
Africans must win their own freedom. Nobody will win it for them. They need co-operation, but that co-operation must be with the revolutionary movement in Europe and Asia. There is no other way out. Each movement will neglect the other at its peril.
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
- The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- CUSO-VSO
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- A Death Sentence For Africa
The Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a global system of corporate-led capitalism that is bulldozing us to this disaster, the corporate media mouthed deceptive platitudes.
- Development Theory in Transition
The Dependency Debate and Beyond: Third World Responses
Resource Type: Book
This book is an outline of development theory since 1945, and emphasizes the importance of Dependency Theory as a catalyst in forming more relevant and less ethnocentric approaches. It is also the story of the rise to intellectual hegemony of a whole generation of Latin American, Caribbean, African and Indian political economists. This book is a fascinating history of development theory from a Third World perspective.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- An Economic History of West Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An examination of the economy of West Africa from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
- Encyclopaedia of Islam
New Editon
Resource Type: Book
- FAJ says African journalists face series of threats ranging from safety and security, repressive laws, oppressive regimes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Journalists and media workers in Africa face series of threats ranging from safety and security, repressive laws, oppressive regimes, monopolies, bad labour practices and unfair competition.
- Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers. Hundreds have been murdered in the defence of endangered wildlife, and their deaths leave their own families in jeopardy. David Smith reports from Zambia.
- Geschichte Ägyptens
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1964
- Gestapo
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- Omar Ha-Redeye
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Harvest of Devastation
The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Explains how western farming practices being imposed in other countries harm peasant communities, indigenous cultures, and the ecology.
- International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
- IPS Africa Launches Reporting Gender-Based Violence Handbook
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS) Africa has launched a new handbook for reporters to support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence beyond 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children.
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
One of the strangest news developments of our time is the way the media now focus for days, if not weeks, 24/7, on a single event and its ramifications. Omar Mateen's slaughter of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is only the latest example of this. If no other calamitous or eye-catching event comes along (“‘Unimaginable’: Toddler’s body recovered by divers after alligator attack at Disney resort"), it could, top the news, in all its micro-ramifications and repetitions, for three or four weeks. Such stories -- especially mass killings, especially those with an aura of terrorism about them -- are particularly easy for strapped, often downsizing news outfits to cover. They are, in a sense, pre-packaged.
- Line in the sand: Africa's 'green wall' aims to stop desert's growth
Villagers will help establish 15km-wide swath of trees as a nature reserve
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Great Green Wall is a pan-African plan to halt desertification through reforestation.
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2016
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- A Marxist History of the World part 26: Africa: cattle-herders, iron-masters, and trading states
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the early civilisations in Africa and how geography ensured the continent would develop differently from Eurasia.
- A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
- Mass Communications and American Empire
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- The North-South Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
- OXFAM Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Pambazuka News
Resource Type: Website
Pan-African voices for freedom and justice.
- Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The People vs. Global Capital
The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- Power and Need in Africa
Basic Human Needs and Development Policies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Ben Wisner makes a case for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future. He shows how a new African renaissance could spring from a radical basic-needs approach. A renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women's emancipation and social justice, will stand as a refutation of the new, conservative pragmatism popular among development experts.
- Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- The Socialist Register 1969
Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Socialist Register 2003
Volume 39: Fighting Identities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2003
- Sources welcomes Omar Ha-Redeye
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member: Omar Ha-Redeye. Omar Ha-Redeye is frequently interviewed by the media on subjects relating to health, security, law, politics, social media, disasters, minority rights and multiculturalism.
- Sources welcomes Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) is a Canadian-based institution dedicated to making international peace operations more effective through research, education and training, and capacity development.
- Soutien Apport aux Pays Africains Francophones
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Le Centre Pearson pour le maintien de la paix (CPMP) a obtenu un appui financier de prs de 3,5 millions de dollars du Ministre des Affaires trangres et du Commerce international (MAECI) du Canada afin de mettre sur pied, en collaboration avec
- Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
- Street Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
- Sudan: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The ability of society to acknowledge the productive capacity of women, especially in the political arena, can by-and-large be brought about only by women breaking into roles not culturally ascribed to them.
- Suffering Strong
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This readable book tells readers much about the underlying causes of hunger in Africa. Through the author's powers of observation, the readers experience the horror of seeing both a starving child and the thrill of accomplishment of irrigated fields in Eritrea. The odyssey details the devastating impact of the West's two hundred year presence on the wars and oppression that today cause hunger and death in Africa.
- Support for Africa's French-Speaking Countries
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre has received close to $3.5 million from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada (DFAIT) to execute a project, in collaboration with the Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations (ROP)
- Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
- Tomorrow's Battlefield
U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
U.S. military is fighting shadow wars in Africa and claims that Africa is the "battlefield of tomorrow".
- Which Way Africa?
The Search for a New Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
- Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed last December by a parliament his ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), controls.
- World Human Rights Guide, Third Edition
A Comprehensive, Up-to-date Survey of the Human Rights Records of 104 Major Countries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- World Press Freedom Day: Statement from the Media Foundation for West Africa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The theme for this year's celebration of World Press Freedom Day, Media, Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, could not have been more appropriate in any other year than this one, particularly for countries in West Africa.
- World Vision Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
Resource Type: Article
The one-party system of Zimbabwe.
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