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PAV Headlines Vol 44 December 2011:
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EDITORIAL: Lament For Gaddafi, Message For Africa: A very controversial end for a very controversial leader. Nemesis catches up with Libyan leader Muarmar Gaddafi after spending circa four decades of absolute rule. Despite huge infrastructural and development transformation of Libya into a modern state in his time, nothing supersedes freedom and this freedom his country men may not have had.PAV weighs in on the debate on the demise of Gaddafi and the message for Africa.
POLITICS:Democracy At Cross Roads As DRC prepares for its third presidential election on 28 November, Antoine Roger Lokongo cautions that external interests in the country’s vast mineral wealth mean that a genuine democracy owned by the Congolese people is likely to remain elusive.
PERSPECTIVES: To grasp things by the root: On Julius Malema: Richard Pithouse reflects on the recent five-year suspension of the outspoken South African president of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, and sees in the disciplinary action traces of the powerful ANC’s hostility to popular organisation outside of its control.
SCORE CARD:The Highs and Lows of the Moment.PAV brings you a selection of people and deeds which have fared for better or for worse for the continent. Stephen Hayes of the Corporate Council on Africa, Michael Sata and Rupiah Banda of Zambia and others get high ratings. For abandoning the moral high ground, the Episcopal Council in Cameroon scores low and the Muslim sect for indulging in an orgy of wanton killings and destruction in Nigeria score low.
ENTERTAINMENT: Meet The Senegalese Face Of Nollywood. Hard to miss Binta Goudiaby when you enter a room. Her physique is a perfect epitome of grace, imposing height, stylish and glamorous. She is very inch a model, a profession she excelled in before delving into other areas of show biz. As the Nigerian movie industry dubbed Nollywood extends its tentacles beyond the confines of that country, the appeal from talents like Binta is simply irresistible. She is the first Senegalese to make a breakthrough in Nollywood.She has featured in movies such Buster Life—produced by Chima movie Empire—and Missing Link in Canada with Dubaa Echoes and is currently working on another movie. The multi-talented Binta who is also a celebrity stylist opens up on her modeling career, experiences in Nollywood, how Senegalese perceive her rise in Nollywood and more for PAV with Pandita Njoh Eta.
OPINION: Placing workers at the heart of 21st struggles for social, economic and political emancipation is the objective of the newly launched ‘Global African Worker’. Bill Fletcher, leader of the project in The need for the ‘Global African Worker’, sets out the importance of building ‘real links between individuals and social movements who are conducting similar and sometimes overlapping struggles against racism and global capitalism.
SPORTS:Gabon-Equatorial Guinea 2012: Waiting For The New Kings: The Gabon –Equatorial Guinea 2011 Nations Cup will certainly mark the dawn of a new era in African football. It will be one of those rare editions in modern times where the major power nations which spear head the game in continent will answer absent. A nations cup with Egypt which has won the last three editions absent is unheard of in recent times. A nations cup without four time champion Cameroon absent? Many are still to believe that. Also missing are Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa which were the continental flag bearers at the 2010 world cup.Asong Zelifac takes a takes a snap preview at the draws of a Nations Cup which provides an opportunity for fresh champion other than Egypt or Cameroon which have held the trophy hostage for a since 2000
