The Scramble for Kenya's Kibera Slum Miriam Gathigah - Institute of the Black World 21st Century

	The Scramble for Kenya’s Kibera Slum Miriam Gathigah Controversy continues to brew here over ownership of the land under Kibera slum, one of Africa’s largest. Nubians who have lived in the area for more than 100 years want Kibera registered as Nubian land, but their efforts are opposed by countless Kenyans who over the past six decades have also …MORE > >









	Cuba’s Reforms Don’t Believe in Tears Patricia Grogg The landscape is changing in Cuba’s cities and towns, with political slogans giving way to lighted signs advertising the best of local and international cuisine and air-conditioned lodgings – signs of an emerging private sector that was inconceivable until recently. As a result of the new … MORE > >

	Growing Number of Private Operators in Cuban Education Ivet González Cuba’s state education monopoly is increasingly sharing space with private operators, including churches and teachers working as tutors, which are filling in gaps and providing knowledge that has become necessary as a result of the country’s economic reforms, such as business management …MORE > >

	OP-ED: NAFTA’s 20 Years of Unfulfilled Promises Manuel Pérez-Rocha Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans. Of course, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have vanished since automotive and tech companies moved their production across the border in search of much lower wages.3 This was supposed to boost employment in … MORE > >

Waiting for the Rains, Zambia Grapples With Climate Change Ernest Chiombe It is seven in the morning and Georgina Musende, 56, of Kamanga Township, which just lies east of the Zambian capital Lusaka, is already sweating as she digs into the dry earth. Every time the hoe hits the ground, the dust engulfs her. But Musende, a single parent who supports her four children … MORE > >



	Farmers in Mozambique Fear Brazilian-Style Agriculture Amos Zacarias Rodolfo Razão, an elderly small farmer in Mozambique, obtained an official land usage certificate for his 10 hectares in 2010, but he has only been able to use seven. The rest was occupied by a South African company that grows soy, maize and beans on some 10,000 hectares in the northeast of the …MORE > >