Contents
SECTION 1: CLIMATE CHANGE IN AFRICA
Editorial
THE BLACK SONIC GESTURES TOWARD JUST PLANETARY FUTURES IN AFRICA
Editorial essay by the Guest Editors: mpho ndaba & Rachael Nyirongo
The third annual Ben Turok Memorial Lecture
CLIMATE IMPERIALISM
How can the rest of the world respond?
Report on the lecture by Jayati Ghosh
Climate change in Africa
EUROPE’S QUEST FOR ENERGY
fuels green colonialism in Africa
By Roland Ngam
AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT PROMISED A LOT
but in the end delivered very little
By Roland Ngam
VOLUNTARY CARBON MARKETS:
Slow violence for indigenous communities in the Global South?
By Liz Mwangi
ESKOM AND ENERGY:
Large-scale renewables programme the only way to keep the lights on
By Mark Swilling
THE RISE, FALL AND RISE OF ESKOM
Which pathways should SA follow?
By Roland Ngam
AFRICAN WOMEN BEAR THE BRUNT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Tracking the impact of the crisis in Nigeria and Mozambique
By Rachael Nyirongo
MADAGASCAR:
where inflation, climate change and cyclones collide
By Ny Hasina Andriantsehenomamonjy
UNEARTHING THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF CLIMATE CHANGE:
The reflections of an analytical environmental chemist
By Cecilia Ojemaye
Book Reviews
STUNTED
Panopticism and embedded neoliberalism in African states’ food & agriculture policies and the struggle to end Hunger on the continent
Review by Rachael Nyirongo
THESE POTATOES LOOK LIKE HUMANS
The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South Africa
Review by mpho ndaba
SECTION 2: IFAA AT WORK
In Defence of our Constitutional Democracy
DEMOCRACY ONLY WORKS IF PARLIAMENT WORKS
Parliament as the cornerstone of public participation
By Moira Levy and Martin Nicol
‘How can we help and support MPs?’ – Chief Justice Zondo
HERE’S WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE THINK OF THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY IN SA
and what they plan to do about it: voting is just the first step
ANOTHER MILESTONE REACHED:
Partnership with ISD sealed
By the New Agenda editorial collective
News from the continent