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8 Celebrating Africa’s heritage

Letters 4 Your news and views

OCTOBER 2009 ISSUE 488 WWW.AFRICASIA.COMSee page 75 for subscription offer details

Cover story Black History Month 8 Time to look back 14 Returning to the

African nation state 18 Padmore: Father of

African emancipation 22 Healing the wounds of slavery 24 Slavery reparations are a must 30 Seychelles: a history of slavery

Lest We Forget 34 Making Pan-Africanism

relevant today For the Record 36 Zimbabwe needs the

Although certain Western historians and scholars have boldly proclaimed that Africa has no history and, thus, contributed nothing to world civilisation, the hard evidence proves the contrary. As we have done over the past 10 years, we treat readers to our annual Black History Month special – a full 26 pages of stirring coverage.Member of The Audit Bureau of Circulations.

and his great Libyan friend 56 Kenya: Politics vs climate change Reflections 60 Black women and the beauty myth Special Report 63 SADC: A shared future 68 SADC: Building development finance 70 Mozambique: Stabilising growth, fighting poverty 74 Angola: Exploring cooperation NA Market 76 ‘Don’t sell commodities, sell brands’ Profile 80 South Africa: Ambassador extraordinaire The Interview 82 Nkrumah’s daughter speaks Under the Neem Tree 92 The Asamoah Boateng affair Diaspora 94 Pushkin’s grandfather and other Africans Back to the Future 98 The limits of change

West to engage Mugabe Presidential interviews 38 Liberia: Johnson-Sirleaf

is proud of achievements 44 Mauritania: Abdelaziz –

man of the people? Features 48 Nigeria: Banking sector in

turmoil … again! 52 Uganda: The boy king