From the local to the continental, the Fahamu Pan-African Fellowship programme aims to nurture and support grassroots African activism - generating contemporary, energetic, visionary and innovative thought and activism.

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  • THE STRUGGLE FOR CHANGE

    Submitted by danshize on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 16:57

    In life you do not get what you deserve,you get what you fight for.
    These words apply for all of us in the struggle for change

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  • RISE UP AFRICA AND WEEP NO MORE

    Submitted by David Njihia on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:55

    400 years ago they took the best of your children
    To the door of no return
    Yoked and choked, they labored for ‘your neighbors’
    Yet they call you dark, dead, starved,
    poor and emancipated.
    As your golden body they devour

    They say they discovered you, because you were lost?
    They finally found you, looted you,
    and stole from you.
    They gave you religion because you had no faith.
    What good could they find in
    your so called “dark continent?”
    Nothing but pieces of gold, silver diamond and cobalt

    Brother turned against a brother a sister against another

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  • IDAHO "AS I AM"

    Submitted by guillit on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 18:52

    The International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) is marked every year on May 17th. This day is celebrated for the fight against all the injustices occurring around the world to the sexual minorities. This year’s theme was “AS I AM”, as a response to the society and the world that presumes us to be from being demons, cursed or recruited. We are what we are: we cannot be changed; neither can we be transformed through miraculous prayers. It’s a shame some of us hide in false marriages and heterosexual relationships and pretend they are not in the LGBTI community.

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  • Sensitive and Controversial subjects

    Submitted by guillit on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 16:55

    Health Development Initiative (HDI) VISIT

    I visited Health Development Initiative (HDI) with Kaitlin Dearham, the East Africa Program Manager for the launching of None on Record project in Kenya. We met with Dr. Kagaba, the director of HDI. Enlightened about some of the controversial programs the HDI team addresses, we were keen to hear the challenges faced in advocating for sensitive and controversial issues, with Rwandan society still clinging to cultural practices.

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  • MEETING WITH THE HIGH COMMISSIONER OF KENYA

    Submitted by danshize on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 17:49

    Gacheke and I decided to pay a courtesy call to the acting high Commissioner of kenya His exellency Fred Eshikuta(Counsellor)to book an appointment for the fahamu pan african fellows to visit the High commission.We arrived at 9am and were lucky to find him in the office after communicating with the embassy staffs at the reception of our intentions and who we are.

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  • Self story

    Submitted by guillit on Mon, 08/01/2011 - 13:10

    SELF STORY
    Halo, my name is Guillit Amakobe, a lesbian and human rights defender for the LGBTI community. I am an artist, and member of the LGBTI organizations Artist For Recognition and Acceptance (AFRA) and G-Kenya. Both organizations are based in Nairobi, Kenya under Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK).

    I was born and raised with a religious foundation, Catholic to be precise. With the tough Catholic fundamentals and a father strict like an army general, life was very complicated and lonely; adhering to my father’s rules, our home was like a military camp.

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  • study group -- Rwanda week 1

    Submitted by guillit on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 17:02

    What does change mean to us and how does change happen?

    It’s adopting a new a routine in our lives, it’s also a change from one situation to another.

    It can be defined as a substitute or a plan B in our regular routines in our daily lives.

    As an activist in our community we stay and negotiate unless the problem leads to a fight, we use a non- violent defiant by staying and learning the situation using active non violent means to engage (oppressor) system.

    If we were to stay and fight we seek power from the people through lobbying.

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  • Our Community Organising

    Submitted by fahamu on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 14:14

    One of your jobs as an organizer is to identify and recruit other leaders to work with you to build a campaign to win change.

    How can we as community organizers practically build the power to create the change we need in our lives and those of our communities ?

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  • PAN AFRICANISM vs NATIONALISM

    Submitted by David Njihia on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 14:52

    As a person who believes in Pan-Africanism, it was not so easy to support Nationalism in the debate we had. But all in all it made me have a deep analysis of Pan Africanism to try and root out the gaps in it.

    Pan Africanism which has been cited in many literatures gyrates on the unity of the black race in all over the world. Some scholars have argued that pan Africanism is an art, a philosophy, a concept, and a movement that seeks to bring together Africans in every walks of life under one umbrella of political, economic and social autonomy.

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  • O-Camping Six VS The IDPs

    Submitted by Grand Masese on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 14:16

    BY DENNIS DANCAN MOSIERE

    Ocampo is persecuting our local criminals
    That is why i am supporting the Ocampo Six
    It is because we are both IDPs
    internally dis-possessed people
    Internally displaced people
    internally dis-organised people
    But I am the original IDP

    Ocampo is persecuting our local criminals
    using the international criminal court
    may be every judge there is a criminal
    it must be court of international criminals
    like Blaring Tonys
    and the Texas Bushes

    the Ocampo six
    are local criminals
    They do not meet international standards
    they are not even Bush compliant

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