00.00 Introduction
01.00 Newsbytes from Africafiles.org
03.50 Kagiso Molope, autthor of Dancing in the Dust (2002) and The Mending Season (2005), talks about apartheid, feminism and her motivation as a writer - includes audio clip of Nelson Mandela's speech when he was released from prison in 1994. 15.11 Soukouss star Awilo Longomba to tour Canada

Newsbytes
Political transition in Mauritania: Assessment and horizons
Quantifying genocide in Darfur
Uganda to save $2.7b in aid cancellation

Audio credits
Virginia Mukwesha, Batai Mwana (Zimbabwe Wild Jiti Dance Music, 1996)
Awilo Longomba, Karolina (Mondongo, 2003)
Nelson Mandela's speech courtesy of freedomarchive.org

Other Links
The Mending Season (2005) is published by Oxford Books
Dancing in the Dust (2002) is published by Tsar Books and available at amazon.ca and chapters.indigo.ca

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