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NEW AFRICAN The bestselling pan-African magazine, founded in 1966

FEBRUARY 2012 ISSUE 514 WWW.AFRICASIA.COM

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12 South Africa: ANC is 100 years old, but what does it mean to the black man?

The ANC turned 100 on 8 January 2012 and organised a lavish celebration in the city of Mangaung. But as the champagne glasses clicked, one message was clear above the din, which we tackle so eloquently in this month’s cover story: the black man, like all others, cannot live by political freedom alone.

VIEWPOINT 10 Making Shell responsible ee p. 27 for subscription offer details LETERS 4 Your news and views BAFOUR’S BEFS 8 Who does David Cameron thinks he is deceiving?

COVER STORY: SOUTH AFRICA 12 100 years of the ANC

– but the black man still waits! 18 How the ANC betrayed its founding principles FEATURES 24 Kenya: Waiting for Godot 28 Nigeria: Anatomy of a crisis 30 Zambia/Malawi:

Can they kiss and make up? 32 Sierra Leone: Kabbah – this is my life 34 Kenya: Waiting for Godot 36 Africa: Trade not aid 38 Africa: The rise of the middle class REFLECTIONS 44 Racism still alive and kicking in Britain

SPECIAL FEATURES 46 Britain:

‘How Stephen Lawrence’s murder nearly happened to us’ 50 Gabon: The friendly port of

Port-Gentil

NEM TRE 56 Financial engineering 101 DIASPORA 58 US: Cornel West vs Obama 62 Haiti: Little hope two years on 64 France: The human zoo THE ARTS 68 South Africa:

Photographic exhibition

SPORT 72 Olympics: Down memory lane 78 John Akii-Bua remembered 81 Boxing: Klitschko vs Chisora BACK TO THE FUTURE 82 The quarrel of the children of Abraham