African perspectives on development and social justice in Africa are rarely heard in Northern media. This book offers a collection of editorials from 'Pambazuka News' that explore concerns including underdevelopment, aid, trade, debt and globalisation.

Challenging 30 years of misdirected policies, Tandon 'dares to think differently'. He offers alternative concepts and development paradigms for policy makers and peoples' movements on governance, industry, technology, climate, food, trade, aid and more.

Desmond Tutu introduces 34 wide-ranging essays including: resistance to taxation for the military, global terrorism, nonviolent revolutions, sport in conflict transformation, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, moving from violent to peace-oriented masculinities…

SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa brings together the experiences of activists using mobile phone technology on the African continent as well as providing understanding of the socio-economic, political and media contexts which activists face.

India's growing interactions with Africa call for analysis. Drawing on case studies, this book focuses on the interrelated areas of trade and investment, geopolitics and diplomacy, development cooperation, and identity and citizenship.

'A beauty, extraordinary in every way', Naomi Klein, author of 'The Shock Doctrine' Shack-dwelling families in Cape Town who were evicted from their homes write about the vibrant community they created on the street and their anti-eviction campaign.

Leading commentators, those who fought imperialism alongside Nyerere, members of a younger generation and the Pan-Africanist giant of the liberation movement, Nyerere himself, reflect on leadership, economic development, land, human rights and education.

Regressive taxes and ineffective administration undermine tax systems, and loopholes and secrecy jurisdictions enable multinationals to evade tax. This short book sets out the causes and consequences of tax injustice in Africa and suggests solutions.

As greedy eyes focus on the global South's resources this book 'pulls back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.

Un ensemble d'articles, reproduit d'un numéro spécial de Pambazuka News, qui interoge les prodigieuses avancées des bio et nanotechnologies et leurs conséquences néfastes pour le continent africain et le Sud en général.