1. Ma’Africa

4. Wangari Mathaai
Patrice Lumumba

5. Mount Kenya
Mount Mulanje, Malawi

6. Fouta Djalon Plateau,
Guinea
Beach in Madagascar

7. Kenyatta Avenue,(arch
celebrating Kenya’s
independence)

8. Cairo, Egypt
Old Town Asmara, Eritrea

9. Downtown Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire
View of Mountain, DRC

10. The first Muslim and African female
Olympic champion

11. Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco
Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia
Kenyan runners

14. Time to Build A New Day

15. The World has changed so very
much from what it used to be……
• 4 woman Prime Ministers in the world;
2 in Africa - Mozambique and São Tomé e
Princípe.
• 2 African countries among highest in the
world in percentage of women Cabinet
level officials
• Rwanda 9 women and 22 men
• South Africa 13 women and 15 men (also, 10
female Deputy Ministers and 11 male)
• (US ~ Bush’s cabinet has only 4 women and
17 men)

16. • Rwanda #1 in the world in percentage
of women parliamentarians.
• 3 African countries — Rwanda,
Mozambique, South Africa—rank
among top 15, with more than 30%
women parliamentarians,
• Ranked 49, 60 and 70 are the United
Kingdom, the United States and
France.
Source: World Map of Women in Politics 2005

17. Wake Up All The Builders…It’s Time To Build A
New Land….
• South Africa Swaziland and Mozambique
agreed to jointly develop the Lubombo region
(borders all 3 countries). The key obstacle
was the high prevalence of malaria in the
region.
• Working together, all 3 countries formed The
Regional Malarial Control Commission
(RMCC) which worked out a scheme to
reduce the mosquitoes. Then implemented a
region wide program to give anti-malarial
drugs.

18. Progress Through UNITY……
Country Avg. Infection
Rate for 2-14
yr olds in 2000
Avg. Infection
Rate for 2-14
yr olds in 2004
Mozambican
zone 1
62% 7.1%
Mozambican
zone 2
70% 34%
Swaziland
zone
8% 3%
South African
zone
10% 5%

19. No more backwards thinkin', time for
thinkin' ahead…..
• Working together across borders is a triumph.
• With Responsible government + attention to
public health, it is possible for African countries
to provide their citizens appropriate health
care.
• The Bush administration limits access to AIDS
treatment saying that African countries don’t
have the infrastructure for proper
administration of drugs. Lubombo success
exposes the falseness of this argument.

20. Wake up everybody, no more sleeping in
bed….

21. NO to COUPS!~
• 1960-1980: 70 coups and 13 presidential
assassinations
• End of cold war – loss of external patrons,
less equipped to oppress people, more
open to pressure from below
• 1990s:
• Benin – constitutional convention
• Mali – end of Traore
• Nigeria – Abacha challenged
• Morocco – populist organizing
• South Africa – Apartheid Toppled;
MANDELA FREED!

22. • 2005 – Strong African Union stance against
coups (AU resolutions prohibit recognition
of regimes that assume power
unconstitutionally)
• Togo - AU pressures Gnassingbe, who took
over after the death of his father, Eyadema,
to hold competitive elections.
• Mauritania- AU suspended the membership
of Mauritania. Called on the international
community to support the return of
constitutional rule in the country

23. Economic Change
• UN Human Development Report of 175
countries, countries in the least healthy
condition ranking 151 to 175 were all on
the African continent.
• Then there is Botswana. Botswana said no
to IMF/WB controls. Botswana is the 1
country on the continent with sustained
healthy growth and human development

24. PEOPLE, PURPOSE, PROMISE….
CLAIMING OUR POWER
CONTROLLING OUR DESTINY