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The ear is never too old to learn
There is an African proverb which says: “The ear is never too old to learn.” In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Marcel Mugoyi, a long time local chief of several villages, recently asked a local primary school principal to enroll him so that he can gain knowledge to efficiently do his work. Chief…
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Straight Talk Africa: AFJN on MLK and Nonviolent Action
Watch here. Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss Martin Luther King Jr’s. commitment to nonviolent action and explore whether his reasoning is still the best option to challenge racial injustice. Guests: Kadiatou Diallo, Mother of Amadou Diallo¸ Founder & President,The Amadou Diallo Foundation; Rev. Aniedi Okure, OP, Ph.D., President, Africa Faith and Justice Network;…
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Power to the People
Edited by Rita Murphy, from the Tanzania Daily News The Maasai have lost so much of their land, they cannot afford to lose any more, according to Survival International. President Jakaya Kikwete has pledged never to evict the Maasai people after an international outcry against plans to turn their ancestral land into a commercial hunting…
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Her Business is Rolling
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201409181471.html Edited by Rita Murphy. Photo: I. Kaledzi/DW Winifred Selby, a 19 year old social entrepreneur from Ghana, founded Ghana Bamboo Bikes in 2009 and it has become a huge success. She decided she wanted to found her own company that would be committed to promoting fair trade and creating environmentally responsible products. She…
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AFJN’s First Empowerment Project Workshop-Ghana
In October AFJN held its first Empowerment Project workshop in Accra, Ghana. Read the report. Read more about the background of the Empowerment Project, and the formation of this workshop. AFJN thanks the Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research and special thanks to the Raskob Foundation and the Be the Change Foundation…
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Gender Empowerment through Governance
Gender equality is a battle that even developed countries struggle with today. In Africa, women are fighting against the weight of tradition and other injustices. Socially, assigning roles based on gender is a practice that is very prevalent. There are very few women in government and those who make it face serious challenges to keep…
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A Government’s Band-aid Solution to Education
(Download PDF file) In June 2014 Ghana was granted a $156 million loan by the World Bank on top of previous unpaid loans from the same institution. The loan was for improving the education sector mainly secondary education. The way the loan was to be distributed according the World Bank was that $125.1 million would…
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AFJN’s Work Featured in NCR Article
As mentioned yesterday, last week I went to a briefing at the Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN) after the group took two trips to Africa last autumn.
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Promising outcomes of the New York Climate Change Summit for Africa
By AFJN Intern Erika De Leener Climate change is currently a big phenomenon affecting the entire world. If no action is taken to reverse the trend Africa will be most severely affected by the impact of climate change related disasters. Unlike more developed continent’s, Africa faces serious challenges to adapt to climate change due to…
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Article on Faith in Action in The Guardian
Read the story of Father Bernard Kenvi’s intervention to save Muslims despite threats to his life. “I thirst for peace in CAR,” he says. “I want to see people able to move around safely like in any other country. I want to see my Muslim brothers, who have lost everything, return to their homes. It’s…
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Africa up for grabs, Saudi Arabia takes its share
Land grabbing threatens the livelihood of many communities in Africa. Saudi Arabian companies are among the many grabbing land in Africa. Under the umbrella of the King Abdullah Initiative for Saudi Investment Abroad, Saudi investors have acquired land in Africa with promises to improve Africa’s agricultural sector. Saudi investors have leased a combined 1,000,000 hectares…
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Africa Has One Less Autocrat: Blaise Compaore, of Burkina Faso, deposed after 28 years
On October 31st the world has taken notice of an important historic event on the African continent: the people of the west African nation of Burkina Faso are free from one of Africa’s atrocious dictators. This liberation ends 28 years of oppression. An African proverb (popular in the AFJN office) says: “When spider webs unite,…
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AFJN Publication: “Land Grabbing in Africa: Herakles Farms’ Failed Venture in Brewaniase, Ghana”
AFJN travelled to Brewaniase, a town in Ghana’s Volta Region, to learn more about a potential land grab deal by Herakles Farms, a New York based agribusiness.
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Africa Must Leapfrog Its Way to the Future
By Ola Orekunrin, edited by Rita Murphy from Think Africa Press. The conventional path for improving healthcare is to build more hospitals and train more doctors. But could Africa speed up progress by ‘hacking’ its way to success? Governments, NGOs and businesses spend billions of dollars across Africa building new hospitals and training new doctors….
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AFJN Signer of Open Letter on Conflict Minerals
It is time for another broader push for reform on conflict minerals and natural resource governance in order to complement the Dodd-Frank legislation and deepen related minerals reforms.
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AFJN featured in Enough on Conflict Minerals
On October 30, 2014, the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned in the Enough Team’s article “Open Letter on Conflict Minerals” in Enough. Read the full article here: https://enoughproject.org/reports/open-letter-dodd-frank-october-2014
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Investigating Herakles Farms in Ghana: AFJN’s Report
What happened with Herakles Farms in Ghana? How is the community doing now? What is the prognosis for the new owner of the land? Find out by clicking here to read our report (pdf).
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Equal gender representation in the Namibian Government is on the rise
By AFJN Intern Erika De Leener Namibia’s ruling South West Africa People’s Organization ( SWAPO) party has delivered its promise of equal gender representation.With 51% of Namibia’s population being woman it seems only fitting that there is equal representation. Not only has Namibia reached the milestone of equal gender representation in members of government, it…
