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From the Slave Trade to Free Trade
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Introduction Firoze Manji and Patrick Burnett About the contributors TRADE, INVESTMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Plugging the leaks - the role of debt, aid and trade Charles Abugre For life or profit? GATS and the externalisation of Africa's resources Oduor Ongwen Preserving disorder - IMF policies and Kenya's healthcare crisis Soren Ambrose The new scramble for Africa's resources Henning Melber China in Africa Stephen Marks South Africa's Coega complex - cheap energy for industry Patrick Bond LESSONS FROM THE SLAVE TRADE A story of the Atlantic slave trade Manu Herbstein Slavery ain't dead, it's manufactured in Lideria's rubber Robtel Neajai Pailey Trade, justice and the case for reparations M.P. Giyose WOMEN AND TRADE What do women want? Pambazuka News World trade liberalisation in Africa - why women are most affected by poverty Cheikh Tidiane Dieye Trade, gender and the search for alternatives - trade liberalisation and social development Jennifer Chiriga Women and globalisation - the impact on their health Mouhamadou Tidiane Kasse What do women stand to gain from trade? - women in business and commerce Salma Maoulidi Street vendors and informal trading - the struggle for the right to trade Winnie Mitullah Friend or foe - the EPAs unmasked Liepollo Lebohang Pheko TRADE, ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE Trade and human rights in the Niger Delta Nnimmo Bassey Community rights and foreign direct investment in Kenya's Yala Swamp Patrick Ochieng Trading food rights and GM crops Interview with Mariam Mayet International trade (in)justice or the survival of the fattest - the effects of agricultural subsidies Tope Akinwande Sacrificing the right to food on the altar of free trade Jagjit Plahe Europe - the 'promised land' for Africa's unemployed Tope Akinwande

About the Author

Patrick Burnett, from South Africa, has a background in journalism. He is a contributing editor of Pambazuka News, and runs Fahamu's Cape Town office.Firoze Manji is the director of Fahamu and editor of Pambazuka News. Originally from Kenya, he has more than 30 years of experience in international development, health and human rights. He is a member of the editorial board of Development in Practice.

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'these articles provide an insight into how ill-considered trade policies have a profoundly negative impact on the rights of communities' Philip Ngujiri, The East African

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