A domestic drama, in a rural African setting, this play takes the motif of the eagle in Ghanaian mythology/symbolism to explore ideas of ambition, achievement and fulfilment, as individuals may experience for themselves, or as they may desire for others, particularly family members. It further reflects upon and how ideas of ambition interact with competing responsibilities presented by the family. Shadow of an Eagle was first broadcast on BBC African Theatre in 1969 and is now for the first time widely available outside Ghana.

Gabriel Warburg contends that efforts in Sudan to enforce an Islamic state and an Islamic constitution on a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society have led to prolonged civil war, endless military coups, and political, social, and economic bankruptcy. He analyzes the history of Sudan's Islamic politics to illuminate current conflicts in the region.

This manual, which presents information in an accessible question-and-answer format, is divided into three sections for ease of reference. The first section defines substantive rights such as survival, fair treatment, and empowerment. The second section provides practical guidelines on how to use regional and international human rights systems such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or the UN Committee on Torture. The last section contains a comprehensive list of human rights documents with tables by country detailing the status and the stage in the implementation process of each of the conventions in each country.

The Project Coordinator will be involved in the following: Assisting in the recruitment and hiring of project staff including local experts and consultants; Supervision of all project staff; and Book provision activities.

Kenya is a country that is greatly differentiated from most of the other countries in Africa and the rest of the world. Over the years, the socio-political uniqueness of the country has made the lack of understanding of local cultures and arts even more engrained, especially to foreigners, and the rest of the world. Within Africa, Kenya has produced a large number of professionals, who have been absorbed in almost every industry in the world. Not relatively so with the Arts, and other creative disciplines, says this article on the website www.africancolours.com

Drawing on stories elicited from women and children living on the streets, particularly girls, this book considers why girls live their lives and work on the city streets. It discusses what happens to them when they do so, what mechanisms they adopt to cope, the support they receive, and how they adjust to other ways of life. It outlines common perceptions of street children, what may be done to improve their lot, and some existing intervention programmes.

* Liberation and Democracy: Cases from Southern Africa
Henning Melber
* Democracy and the control of elites
Kenneth Good
* Liberation and opposition in Zimbabwe
Suzanne Dansereau

* The state, civil society and social policy: setting a research agenda
Steven Friedman
* Mergers in South African Higher Education: theorising change in transitional contexts
Jonathan Jansen
* Civil Society and the Democratisation processes in Kenya and Uganda
Juman Anthony Okuku

Shell has bowed to pressure from Tony Blair and human rights campaigners by publishing details of payments made to the Nigerian government, which amounted to $900-million last year. The information is included in a new report on its operations in the turbulent west African nation, which also shows the Anglo-Dutch company produced 15,5-million tons of greenhouse gases.

This is the true life story of a young Ugandan girl who runs away from her oppressive and abusive home and is drafted into Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army and is soon in the thick of a guerrilla war.

This book suggests strategies, principles and tools to reduce development-induced disputes and interpersonal conflict as obstacles to achieving sustainable rural livelihoods. Consensual 'win-win' negotiation is promoted as the preferred strategy, but set firmly within the context of the alternatives. The importance of conflict management processes that 'fit' with local customary and legal approaches is stressed.

A solo exhibition of Danisile Ncube's work takes place at the Alliance Francaise in Harare, Zimbabwe between 3 June - 3 July and is entitled: "METAL-TALK". It is composed of sculptures and metal masks.

Olonana ole Mbatian, popularly known as Lenana, was one of the most outstanding Masai and Kenyan leaders, African chief and Laibon (prophet/visionary), whose life spanned the second half of the nineteenth, and the first decade of the twentieth centuries. He lived through and influenced a crucial period in Kenya's history: when the Masai were engaged in nation building, there was competition for leadership, land, people, livestock, wealth and power; and when European intrusions, which were becoming ever more intensive, were shaping Kenya's colonial culture and economy. This is a balanced and critical study of an individual's biography, and historical context.

George Monbiot asks and answers the key questions of our time: what would global democracy look like? And how could we make it happen, against the resistance of the world's most powerful governments? The world is run not by its people but by a handful of self-appointed men in the rich nations. They make the decisions on which everyone else depends: concerning war, peace, debt, development and the balance of trade. The rest of us have no means of holding them to account. While these men might have a national democratic mandate, on the global level their rule is unchallengeable.

Can Africa survive? Many of the nations of sub-Saharan African have all but ceased to exist as organised states: tyranny, diseases such as AIDS, civil war and ethnic conflict--and border invasions threaten the complete disintegration of a region. Peter Schwab offers a clear, authoritative portrait of a continent on the brink. Globalisation and an accompanying level of economic health have passed over Africa. Added to these factors is a patronizing attitude from the West that change in Africa must take place within Western parameters, a UN that lacks any real power, and a US foreign policy in Africa that is unclear.

A Dutch theatre group called The Lunatics have come to South Africa to perform at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. On their way to Grahamstown they will perform in Newtown, Johannesburg.

This book takes a new look at the urban poverty debate at a time when there is renewed interest in urban poverty and management from the World Bank and other multilateral development agencies. It brings together contributions from academics, practitioners and urban poverty specialists to present a multi-disciplinary approach to the debate, highlighting the need to link policy, institutional, and grassroots efforts.

AJOL offers the tables of content and abstracts from journals published in Africa on: Agricultural sciences, arts, culture, language and literature, health, science and technology, and social sciences.

Filmmakers are no doubt visionaries … artists who observe the reality and reproduce it – larger than life on the silver screen. Karyl-Lyn Sanderson, a baby-faced 22-year-old, and a recent NYU film school graduate, is no exception. Her latest project "Elusive Fortune" a documentary about the influence of western culture on young South Africans is at once intriguing and disturbing. In the film Karyl-Lyn interviews young Black South Africans, asking them to define themselves. Some responses are shocking. Karyl-Lyn documents the loss of traditional cultures in South Africa and the overpowering influence of the West.

Twenty-five years after moving to the United States from Mali, an acclaimed filmmaker and scholar explores what it means to be an African in the West, interweaving his own life story with reflections on immigration and change. In this deeply personal and unflinchingly honest exploration of what it means to be African, Manthia Diawara recounts the bittersweet experience of an expatriate who no longer lives life as an "African" yet is the object of others' fantasies and fears about people of the dark continent.