Chris Brazier is reunited not only with the village of Sabtenga, in Burkina Faso, but also with the remarkable Mariama Gamené.
May 2006's Issue
Most Africans have no more contact with famine and war than anyone else. While the mainstream media associate Africa only with disaster, villagers all over the continent are quietly making ends meet, seeking as good a life as possible for themselves and their families. In 1995 NI co-editor Chris Brazier returned to a village in Burkina Faso that he first came to know in 1985 and reported on how people’s lives had changed. At the end of 2005 he returned to the village again to see what difference another decade of ‘development’ has made to this one community.
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The Kick Inside
Too many mothers dying in childbirth – and the clinic that would have saved them if they could only have paid the fees.
- Chris Brazier
- 1 May 2006
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Hernando de Soto
His idea is simple, but it is wowing governments, bankers and aid agencies the world over: legalize the shadow economy and you’ll save the poor. But the free market rarely pulls off this magic trick, whatever Hernando de Soto may claim.
- 1 May 2006
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A Tale of Two Girls
A visit to the local school brings hope – but a visit to one of its former pupils tells a different story.
- Chris Brazier
- 1 May 2006
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Radiating heat
A new report on the long-term damage done by French nuclear testing in the Pacific
- Nic Maclellan
- 1 May 2006
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Democratization à-la-Labour
The shock after the last election was when the new Labour Government actually started to implement parts of its programme, writes Lindsey Collen.
- Lindsey Collen
- 1 May 2006
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Interview with Diego Rozengardt about a new generation of political activists in Argentina
Diego Rozengardt is part of a new generation of political activists in Argentina – they are known as Generación Cromañón, after a notorious nightclub fire.
- Sharona Coutts
- 1 May 2006
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4 wives, 19 children
The changing fortunes – and multiplying numbers – of the family at the heart of the NI film 20 years ago.
- Chris Brazier
- 1 May 2006
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Cartoon conflict
The furore over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad should teach us some important lessons about the new global culture, according to Sharif Gemie.
- Sharif Gemie
- 1 May 2006
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Wives and Daughters
Have women managed to hold the line against genital mutilation? Does polygamy have a future?
- Chris Brazier
- 1 May 2006
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Local Heroes
The people’s organizations that are changing things from below – and reflections on two decades in the life of a village.
- Chris Brazier
- 1 May 2006
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Joyriding
The opening of Delhi’s new subway line has been a cause for much celebration and joyriding, as Urvashi Butalia explains
- Urvashi Bulalia
- 1 May 2006
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Some things stay the same... Some change dramatically
From pounding millet to David Beckham T-shirts – a photographic tour of village life.
- Chris Brazier
- 1 May 2006
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Pablo Bartholomew
A watchmaker in old Mumbai, captured by Indian photographer Pablo Bartholomew
- Pablo Bartholomew
- 1 May 2006
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1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe by Association 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005
- Veronique Mistiaen
- 1 May 2006
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The Battle for Saudi Arabia - Royalty, Fundamentalism and Global Power
The Battle for Saudi Arabia by As’ad AbuKhalil
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 May 2006
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