Picture of Resistance tells the story of ten of Kenya’s unsung heroes who carry forward the tradition of the thousands of nameless freedom fighters of Kenya’s long path to liberation. These activists were part, over the last year, of the inaugural Fahamu Pan-African Fellowship (FPAF) programme.
With local action and an African vision, the FPAF aimed to support a cadre of energetic, visionary and innovative activists.
The Picture of Resistance documentary and accompanying picture book [PDF] record the contribution of ten of Kenya’s community activists who daily resist oppression and dare to build alternatives. These are the Kenyans who organise rather than agonise.
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Fahamu is seeking an experienced Finance and Operations Director to manage the organisation’s finance and operations team. This role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya but will have a remit covering the whole of Fahamu’s pan-African programmes with offices in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and UK. The deadline for applications is February 10, 2012.
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The Movement Building Boot Camp (MBBC) online platform is an e-learning space for African activists doing progressive work around sexuality, gender, justice and rights. It features training guides and knowledge resources to support creative thinking, strategising and discussions among activists working for social transformation inclusive of issues of sexuality and gender identity.
The training resources are organised around three intersecting pillars: Concepts (theoretical frameworks for understanding our world), Practice (activist tools and methods) and Self (individual and collective well-being and security).
Visit: fahamu.org/mbbc
Fahamu hosted the graduation of the Fahamu Pan-African Fellowship first cohort on 18th November 2011. The event marked the end of a year-long program that supported and nurtured a cadre of visionary, innovative and energetic activism and leadership among Kenya’s community organisers.
Download the Fellows Portrait Book [ PDF] and View 'Picture of Resistance' a documentary about the fellows.
The 'We Are The Solution' project will provide the Rural Women's organisations in Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Guinea with learning and support to enable them to lead on a campaign to promote the benefits of traditional family farming and how these methods can combat the issues of hunger and loss of biodiversity as well as ensuring that local people retain control over food security of their communities and countries.
The project will also focus on the women's learning on womens rights and feminism.
Go to the Global Giving website to donate and support this Fahamu initiative
Much of the conflict and tension in Africa today stems from the artificial creation of nation states by colonial powers, which divided some societies and forced others to live together. Many countries also share a common experience of thirty years of privatization of the public and social sectors,imposed by Northern governments.
Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka Press and News, dubs the result “accumulation by dispossession” – a small group is made fabulously wealthy while countless are left landless, homeless and unemployed. In order to survive, people have had to migrate across and beyond Africa.
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“Security is the centre piece for social justice” – Ambassador Monica Juma
Fahamu – Networks for Social Justice and the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) co-convened a two-day dialogue to undertake a critical review of methodologies currently utilised to mainstream gender in ongoing peace and security processes in Africa.
The dialogue, which took place on 6-7 October 2011 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was timely in its objective to assess and sharpen engagement around these methodologies as transformative instructional tools for the operationalisation of the AU Security Sector Reform Policy Framework, once adopted in 2012.
Overall discussions during the dialogue also assessed how these methodologies can be systematically Read More
Comparative African Perspectives on China and other emerging powers in Africa: China’s deepening engagement with Africa is receiving increased attention from the global media, public- and private sectors as well as academic research.
This should however not overshadow the activities of other emerging powers in Africa, including India, Brazil and the Gulf States. This call therefore seeks to develop African perspectives in the discourse surrounding the engagement between Africa and these emerging powers.
Deadline for receiving applications: 12 October 2011 For further details please download information here