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Adebisi Alimi has been involved in LGBT advocacy in Nigeria for over a decade and started 'The Independent Project', now the strongest gay group in Nigeria. He had to flee his home in Nigeria after a BBC World Service interview meant his life was threatened and now works with Naz project in London as the African MSM sexual health worker.

Horace G. Campbell is professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University where he directs the Africa Initiative. Concerned with issues of conflict resolution, he has been an activist and a scholar for over forty years. His most recent book is Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA.

Jali Fily Cissokho, vocalist and kora player, is regarded as one of the great Senegal griots. His UK appearances have included WOMAD, Glastonbury and Larmer Tree and he has recently worked with A R Rahman, composer of the score for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.

Deborah Doane is director of the World Development Movement an organisation campaigning UK-wide for global justice. She’s on the board of the Fairtrade Foundation and has a long history of campaigning for corporate accountability.

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Africa from exploitation to resistance

The perception of Africa that many people in the UK have is dominated by starvation, corruption and tribalism. But while Africa is at the sharp end of corporate exploitation, the story of ordinary Africans organising against injustice remains largely untold. This session will explore the African social movements who are writing their own history across the continent.

  • Njoki Njoroge Njehu, Africa Jubilee South
  • Firoze Manji, editor in chief, Pambazuka News
  • Horace Campbell, director of the Africa Initiative, Syracuse University

Africa beyond aid

Most African countries receive more than 10 per cent of their GDP in aid. This creates huge problems, including making governments more accountable to donors than to voters. Would cutting aid make things worse or better? Some big charities are currently campaigning to defend aid spending. This session will consider whether that’s the right priority, and what else we should be doing.

  • Yash Tandon, Ugandan author of Ending Aid Dependence
  • Jonathan...

Africa: Exploitation and resistance

This was a conference organised by the World Development Movement and Pambazuka News. It was held in Oxford on 11 June 2011.

Listen to sound recordings from the day below.

Africa from exploitation to resistance

The perception of Africa that many people in the UK have is dominated by starvation, corruption and tribalism. But while Africa is at the sharp end of corporate exploitation, the story of ordinary Africans organising against injustice remains largely untold. This session will explore the African social movements who are writing their own history across the continent.

  • Njoki Njoroge Njehu, Africa Jubilee South
  • Firoze Manji, editor in chief, Pambazuka News
  • Horace Campbell, director of the Africa Initiative, Syracuse University 
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Njoki Njoroge Njehu Daughters of Mumbi Global Resource Centre, Kenya, and Africa Jubilee South. Yash Tandon Ugandan author and activist. Firoze Manji Editor in chief, Pambazuka News. Jonathan Glennie Overseas Development Institute. Deborah Doane World Development Movement. Esther Stanford-Xosei Pan-African Reparations Coalition in Europe. Sibongile Ndashe Interights. Sophi Tranchell, Divine Chocolate. Plus music from Jali Fily Cissokho Senegalese Kora player and vocalist