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Contents NEW AFRICAN The bestselling pan-African magazine, founded in 1966 MAY 2009 ISSUE 484 WWW.AFRICASIA.COM

10 seLeCtive justiCe WhY AFRICA IS A TARGET Why are African leaders incensed about the indictment of the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, by the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Is Africa asserting itself now because it feels unduly targeted by the ICC? Read it all here, in our 33-page special report.

Letters 4 Your news and views

Media 7 New African Woman is born

Baffour’s Beefs 8 Reaping the whirlwind

Cover story: iCC vs afriCa 10 Selective justice 16 What’s the ICC up to? 22 T he case against Bashir 26 Oil politics 30 David Crane

in his own words 34 ‘It’s a political trial,’ says

Taylor’s lawyer 36 Liberia: T here may be trouble 40 Liberia: ‘Taylor fooled me,’

says Johnson-Sirleaf Lest We forget 44 Why do you call yourself

black and African? features 46 South Africa: Zuma at last! 48 Nigeria: Rebel with a cause

refLeCtions 52 My problem with giving

children their rights

for the reCord 54 Zimbabwe:

Change has come neW afriCan Market 58 Where did all the money go? 62 A vital transport corridor 64 When Kenya sneezes… 66 Exploding the aid myth 68 Africa and corporate social

responsibility opinion 72 Madagascar: Rajoelina is

not my president foCus: heaLth in afriCa 75 Diseases of affluence take

their toll under the neeM tree 80 Oh, what an education!

diaspora 84 USA:

Cynthia McKinney speaks sport 86 Africa: Too many

football tragedies BaCk to the future 90 What was the question again?