When Séda & Tiyéda Bawiena returned to Baga, their native village in Togo, they found it on the brink of ruin, devastated by decades of sustained exodus, bleak economic prospects and an increasingly infertile land. Yet armed with their unshakable faith in the riches and ways of their ancestral land, they founded the International Center [...]
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Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat visits the town of Phoenix, Louisiana on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish, an area that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She speaks to Reverend Tyronne Edwards, a pastor and longtime community activist who spearheaded efforts to rebuild the largely African American fishing community after Katrina. In the aftermath [...] May 17, 2010 by Beverly Bell “A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed [...] Written by Chavannes Jean-Baptiste and Beverly Bell Monday, 08 March 2010 Chavannes Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP). He gave this interview last month in MPP’s training center in the rambling, [...] Inter Press Service | 15 May 2010 By Servaas van den Bosch BORICHA, Namibia, May 15, 2010 (IPS) – Pensioner Makena Makanga slowly savours a piece of manketti fruit unaware that the tree it came from will soon be chopped down and mulched along with the rest of her forest to make way for a [...] Malawi’s genius farmer 26/03/2010 / MALAWI Frederick Miska is a farmer from north Malawi. Despite having left school at ten, he’s got a better understanding of creative science than most university students. Amongst his homemade inventions; a mobile phone charger, a fan, and even… electricity. Frederick was discovered earlier this year by science researcher and [...] DOWNLOAD FLYER DOWNLOAD PRE-REGISTRATION FORM The Black Survival Network recognizes that we live in an insecure world. The ravages of Hurricane Katrina, the global food crisis, skyrocketing energy costs, and many other crises begs the questions – where is the world headed? How bad will things get? And more to the point – are you [...] A 1975 Bill Ferris film that features artists from a number of different craft traditions discussing and demonstrating their work, including quilting, sculpting, house building, and basketmaking. Artists in the film include James “Son” Thomas, Shelby “Poppa Jazz” Brown, Richard Foster, Othar Turner, Louise Williams, Esther Criss, Leon Clark, Amanda Gordon, Mary Gordon, Lester Willis. [...] TRADE-UGANDA: ‘‘Green’’ Burial Cloth Gets New Lease on Life By Wambi Michael KAMPALA, Feb 6, 2009 (IPS) – Bark cloth, a fabric historically used by the Buganda in central Uganda to wrap their dead before burial, is making a comeback in the form of trendy crafts, clothing and household goods. The cloth, made from ficus [...] Barkcloth making is an ancient craft of the Baganda people who live in the Buganda kingdom in southern Uganda. Traditionally, craftsmen of the Ngonge clan, headed by a kaboggoza, the hereditary chief craftsman have been manufacturing bark cloth for the Baganda royal family and the rest of the community. Its preparation involves one of humankinds [...] |
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