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1.	How to change your view of Africa
	Author: Simon Kuper	Date Written: 15 May 2012
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: Financial Times Magazine
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://www.ft.com
	Key Words: Edjabe, chimurenga, Africa
	Summary & Comment: How do you really see Africa? From what angle, with what motive? Sometimes its hard to come up with a conclusive answer but the literary journal Chimurenga offers a raw and gutsy view. M. Makoni.
2.	Liberia’s government finding a way to end female genital mutilation
	Author: Travis Lupick	Date Written: 2 April 2012
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: Inter Press Service
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net
	Key Words: Liberia, Sande, Poro, FGM
	Summary & Comment: FGM is a taboo and complicated topic in Liberia and it is dangerous for women to speak out about it. A woman Fatu, in this article, speaks about the pain and the blood, and yet also says it makes her proud to be a woman. The government of Liberia is quietly moving to shut down the Sande (female cultural group) schools and bring an end to female ge . . . [expand]
3.	The politics of language in Cameroon
	Author: Peter Wuteh Vakunta	Date Written: 8 March 2012
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: Pambazuka News, Issue 574
	Secondary Category: Central Region	Source URL: http://pambazuka.org/en/
	Key Words: Cameroon, language policy, indigenous languages
	Summary & Comment: "Is Cameroon’s language policy integrating the nation, as it was intended to do? Or is the approach to language threatening to tear the country apart?" Cameroonians still do not have a language policy that protects indigenous languages, and English. What prevails in Cameroon today is tantamount to ‘linguicide’. "The second fiddle sta . . . [expand]
4.	Uganda: Basua community battles for survival
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 26 January 2012
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: IRIN
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: human rights, migration, governance, health
	Summary & Comment: The Basua community of western Uganda are one of many indigenous communities that are facing challenges to their survival. The Basua were forced off their land two decades ago and while an NGO received funding from the European Union to build them a new village, the project was halted under corruption allegations. Without a way of life, without a h . . . [expand]
5.	African culture uncensored
	Author: Percy Zvomuya	Date Written: 23 December 2011
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: Mail & Guardian Online
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://mg.co.za
	Key Words: Censorship, obscenities, proverb
	Summary & Comment: As much as African culture carries itself with dignity, it cannot be denied that the culture itself is riddled with refreshing obscenities that people choose to ignore. M.Makoni
6.	Kenya: Like a fish belongs to water, the Ogiek belong to the Mau Forest
	Author: Miriam Gathigah	Date Written: 25 November 2011
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: Ecology	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/
	Key Words: indigenous, Rift Valley, evictions, deforestation
	Summary & Comment: The Mau Forest complex is well populated - the Kipsigis, Maasai and the indigenous Ogiek all live in camps around the forest. Their communities were evicted to the forest margins in 2009 when the Kenyan government intitiated a reforestation project. The trick is to respect both the forest as well as indigenous peoples. CJW
7.	Swaziland: King Mswati III faces royal wedding protest in London
	Author: AllAfrica	Date Written: 26 April 2011
	Primary Category: Culture	Document Origin: AllAfrica.com
	Secondary Category: Human Rights	Source URL: http://allafrica.com
	Key Words: Swaziland, human rights, profile
	Summary & Comment: King Mswati III of Swaziland has been invited to London for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. This has angered human rights activists and southern African exiles who are planning to protest the invitation. The King’s brutal action taken against recent anti-government demonstrations are a source of concern. HSEN