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	<title>Black Looks</title>
	
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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>Literary Award: Penguin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA ANNOUNCES A NEW LITERARY AWARD

21 April 2009
Penguin Books announced today a new literary award for writers from the African continent. The Penguin Prize for African Writing has two categories: a previously unpublished full-length work of adult fiction and one of non-fiction. The prize in each category will be R50 000 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOTE FOR PAMBAZUKA NEWS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media - press freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pambazuka News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=4077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the fifth year running, Pambazuka News has been selected as one of
25 finalist nominations in the &#8216;Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of
Internet and Politics&#8217; competition.
Whether it&#8217;s Kenya&#8217;s electoral crisis or the mass killings in Darfur,
Pambazuka News is the source of authentic voices of Africa&#8217;s social
activists and analysts &#8211; a platform for voices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming out: Black &amp; Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinidad & Tobago]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A short clip from Paradise Lost  &#8211; A film on belonging and what really matters!
Paradise Lost Clip from BlackmanVision on Vimeo.

A BlackManVision Blog
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		<title>Victor Mukasa: Coming out trans in Uganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality unAfrican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Mukasa]]></category>

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Victor Mukasa discusses being a LGBT activist in Uganda and coming out first as a lesbian and than as transgender. 
&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t easy and it is still not easy,&#8221; he said, adding that he still goes back to his native land when necessary. &#8220;Uganda is my home, I was born and bred there. For 32 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mariners Griot: Black American Maritime Heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Griot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The slides were prepared by HE Ross &#8211; Black American maritime historian and sailor.   The montage forcues on the British  coming to the Americas without the African theme which  will follow later. NOTE: THE vessels and people in the photos are British African Caribbean









Make a Smilebox slideshow



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		<title>Anti immigration in UK grows – throw them to the sharks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration Europe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=4050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the BNP leader, Nick Griffin,  suggested boats carrying illegal immigrants between North Africa and Europe should be sunk. 
Pressed on what should happen to those on board, he said: &#8220;Throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya&#8221;. 
Today the Labour government moves ever closer to the BNP agenda with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elderly African women</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blacklooks/mUCi/~3/A48XPOHtu1g/elderly_african_women.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elederly African women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=4039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disturbing article on the plight of elderly African women.  Rural / Urban migration,  increasing poverty and patriarchal cultural practices such as widow-inheritance and land ownership have left many elderly women alone in the village without traditional family support.   

Older people face discrimination and abuse in a variety of forms in Africa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian digital artist</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blacklooks/mUCi/~3/LJF9uFAwlNw/nigerian_digital_artist.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/07/nigerian_digital_artist.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Shofela Coker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Nigerian digital artist,  Kenneth Shofela Coker who is based in Memphis.



We want to get to know you. Introduce yourself. Where are you from? What is your area of expertise and how did you get started in the field?
shofthumbHi, my name’s Kenneth Shofela Coker, most people call me Shof. I’m a 22 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: 6 July 05 Massacre of Cite Soleil</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blacklooks/mUCi/~3/TN6jtYeoYos/haiti_6_july_05_massacre_of_cite_soleil_.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cite Soleil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN MINUSTAH]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=4025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 6th July 2005 US controlled occupation forces in Haiti, UN MINUSTAH,  massacred citizens of Cite Soleil in an unprovoked pre-dawn raid.  UN forces also assassinated human rights activist Emmanuel &#8216;Dread&#8217; Wilme after criminalising him and falsely labeling him as a &#8216;bandit&#8217;.   Hear an interview with Emmanuel &#8216;Dred&#8217; Wilme and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niyi Osundare’s “Not my business”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quick Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
NOT MY BUSINESS
They picked Akanni up one morning
Beat him soft like clay
And stuffed him down the belly
Of a waiting jeep.
What business of mine is it
So long they don’t take the yam
From my savouring mouth?
They came one night
Booted the whole house awake
And dragged Danladi out,
Then off to a lengthy absence.
What business of mine is it
So long [...]]]></description>
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