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	<description>"Loving Blackness as Political Resistance" Bell Hooks</description>
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		<itunes:summary>"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative". Oscar Wilde.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Women’s rights across Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[16 Days of Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weeks Pambazuka News has a special Women&#8217;s issues focusing on the last 15 years since Beijing Platform for Action and the future for women&#8217;s rights on the continent.  The essays cover securing women&#8217;s rights, gender and conflict, what has been achieved to date  and  a programme for action for the 16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m reminded…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Nikasimo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender day of remembrance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=5224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Violent suppression of initiatives we cannot understand or even deaths in the African Diaspora as well as the African LGBTI set us back for generations but worse still is the hypocrisy and corruption that blinds us to this fact. Why? When you kill a living being because of their gender identity or whatever reason, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender day of remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Gender DynamiX
This Friday Daisy Dube will be remembered. Daisy was shot and killed in Yeoville in 2008 because of her gender identity. She and three drag queens out for the night stopped and asked three men in a car to stop calling them &#8220;isitabane.&#8221; (A isiZulu slur used for LGBT people). Her cold blooded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trans: transgender life stories from South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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I feel so proud and over joyed to be writing this post today.   In spite of the struggle against transphobia and homophobia two exciting ground breaking pieces of work are happening in Africa which celebrate Transgender lives on the continent.  The first is the launch of Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ladies are Nudist! So what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender Violence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=5185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kayode Ogundamisi posted this note on Facebook commenting on the Lagos State Government&#8217;s &#8220;Rambo&#8221; raid on private nightclubs.  The club dancers were dehumanised and photographed in the nude by security forces with the photos being sent to the press.  Kayode&#8217;s comment speaks to the whole issue of hypocrisy, citizens rights and policing morality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allah is not obliged – walahé!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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“ Allah is not obliged &#8211; to be fair about all things he does here on earth” is the mantra that weaves itself through this remarkable novel by Ahmadou  Kourouma.   This was my first reading of Kourouma which I started at 11am and finished  around 6.30pm.  In those seven hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bamako Encounters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 8th edition of the Bamako Encounters &#8211; African Photography Biennial is a month long celebration of African photography.  This year,  inspired by the theme &#8220;Borders&#8221;,  10 Nigerians made the journey from Lagos to Bamako by road in a Volkswagen mini bus driving through 6 West African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tongues of Clout  (for Geoffrey Philp)</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/11/tongues_of_clout_for_geoffrey_philp.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These images our sleep
has given to the poets. Images
the mouth turns round and
spits out, clean as pits sucked off,
the raw tongue finding the texture
awright. Poets are always talkin&#8217;
about heaven, the pain of
the four seasons, countless
lucky stars at night, winking;
some poets write even hell
though none can pave the way back:
what happens when a child
loses its soul, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/11/new_year_2009.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by the National Poet of Wales to honour the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America on 20th January 2009
Venus in the arc of the young moon
is a boat the arms of a bay,
the sky clear to infinity
but for the trailing gossamer
of a transatlantic plane. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Banjo Lesson (1893)</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/10/the_banjo_lesson_1893.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
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