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THE RED CARD, the best of Hayibo.com, vol.2, 2009/10
128 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R120
A selection of articles from the satirical news website.
Adebajo (A.), Adedeji (A.) & Landsberg (C.) eds. SOUTH AFRICA IN AFRICA, the post-apartheid era
339 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007. R190
Contents include "Black economic empowerment: myths and realities" by Khehla Shubane,
"Race and reconciliation, 'e pluribus unim'?" by Yasmin Sooka,
"Conflict and land reform in Southern Africa: how exceptional is South Africa?" by Sam Moyo & Ruth Hall,
"HIV/AIDS and the African Renaissance: South Africa's achilles heel?" by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba & Shauna Mottiar,
"South Africa and the making of the African Union and NEPAD: Mbeki's 'progessive African agenda'" by Chris Landsberg,
"South Africa and its lusophone neighbours: Angola and Mozambique" by Augusta Conchiglia, and more.

Adekeye Adebajo is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town. Adebayo Adedeji is the director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS) in Nigeria.
Chris Landsberg is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg and a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg.
Africa (S.) WELL-KEPT SECRETS, the right of access to information and the South African intelligence services
179 pp., paperback, Johannesburg & Maputo, 2009. R195
Sandy Africa assesses whether the post-apartheid intelligence services have complied with the obligation, entrenched in South Africa's democratic constitution, to grant citizens right of access to information held by the state and whether there has been a decisive break with the culture of secrecy that characterised the apartheid intelligence apparatus.
Akokpari (J.) & Zimbler (D.S.) eds. AFRICA'S HUMAN RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE,
300 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R145
Contributions include "Between the Insidious and the Sanitised: national human rights institutions and human rights language in Africa" by Daniel Shea Zimbler,
"Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect in Africa" by Jeremy Sarkin,
"'Aluta Continua': the struggle for human rights and democratic governance in Africa" by Siphamandla Zondi,
"Women's Rights as Human Rights in Africa" by Yaliwe Clarke, and
"African Sub-regional Human Rights Courts: the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the SADC Tribunal and the EAC Court of Justice in comparative perspective" by Abdul Rahman Lamin.

John Akokpari is Senior Levturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Daniel Shea Zimbler is a researcher at the Centre for COnflict Resolution in Cape Town.
Akokpari (J.), Ndinga-Muvumba (A.) & Murithi (T.) eds. THE AFRICAN UNION AND ITS INSTITUTIONS,
390 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R155
The Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town conceived and edited this collection of essays on the African Union.

"This book is a welcome and timely intervention by academics and practitioners on the main challenges facing the AU in implementing the Constitutive Act. An analysis on the current institutional capacity of the AU will contribute immensely towards the debate on the Union Government. This book is a must-read for those interested in regional integration." Welile Nhlapo, South African Ambassador to the United States

"An informative publication which joins scholars, activists and policy makers into a discourse that has been considered for a long time an exclusive preserve of governments and diplomats." Salim Ahmed Salim, Former Secretary General of the OAU and Special Envoy of the AU for Darfur

Contributions include "Renaissance of Pan-Africanism: the AU and the new Pan-Africanists" by Kay Mathews,
"Dilemmas of Regional Integration and Development in Africa" by John Akokpari,
"The Peacekeeping Role of the OAU and the AU: a comparative analysis" by Solomon Gomes,
"Accelerating the Response: an evolving African HIV/AIDS policy?" by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,
"The Birth and Evolution of NEPAD" by Chris Landsberg,
"The Pan-African Parliament: progess and prospects" by Baleka Mbete,
"Africa and Gender Equality: priorities for the AU" by Winnie Byanyima, and
"The AU and the EU" by Daniel Bach.
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