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

JANUARY 2012 ISSUE 513 WWW.AFRICASIA.COM

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10 Nigeria: The curse of oil

It should be a paradise, but the devastation in Nigeria’s oil-rich Ogoniland remains numbingly sad. In this exclusive NewAfrican report, we reveal where the finger of blame should be pointing.

BAFOUR’S BEFS 8 In the name of God, leave us alone!

COVER STORY: NIGER DELTA 10 The rape of paradise! 16 ‘Oil has been destructive ee p. 35 for subscription offer details LETTERS 4 Your news and views to Nigeria’s economy’ 18 Shell responds 20 ‘We will continue to protest until justice is done’ 22 Oil boom, a people’s doom REFLECTIONS 28 Thanks but no thanks FEATURES 30 This can’t be NATO’s Libya 36 Kenya: Mama Ngina, lady of grace 38 Zimbabwe: To vote or not to vote 40 Gambian is new head of the ICC 42 Uganda: Can the Americans catch Kony? 44 Africa: Catching the dream-makers AFRICAN FOTBAL 48 Editor’s note 50 CAN 2012:

PECIAL FEATURE 62 What Frantz Fanon meant to

African liberation (2) OPINION 68 South Africa: The media has a lot to answer for 70 Is Obama turning his back on Africa?

NEM TRE 74 A battle with the stream of consciousness SPORT 76 The fabulous Jamaicans

… countdown to the Olympics

DIASPORA 82 USA: The rise and fall of the

Republicans’ great black hope 86 USA: Al Sharpton vs Herman Cain

THE ARTS 88 Zimbabwe: The Great Mtukuzi BACK TO THE FUTURE 90 Confronting ourselves in Nigeria

Who will conquer the summit? 56 Can Ghana end their drought? 59 Egypt: The fall of the Pharoahs