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(Beware that some of the discussion addresses sexual assault.)

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Dubbed Chimurenga, which means "revolutionary struggle" in Zimbabwe's Shona language, Edjabe's creation is an award-winning, pan African literary magazine that addresses and embraces the continent's diversity, with a focus on "the complexity of life."
"Discourse on Africa is geared towards simplicity," explains Edjabe. "Everything must be simple, 'he's a poor black man, he's a victim,' like there has to be a simple story, in a way this is what signifies Africa and global consciousness," he adds.
"The moment you bring a degree of complexity to it, it kind of throws people off, they just don't know where to look anymore, it's like, 'what's going on?' So Chimurenga in a way does not try to maintain the superficiality of this narrative -- we engage with life, we try to present life as complex as it really is."
The Afro-fusion quartet from Nairobi greets the morning birds and joggers on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge in Austin, Texas, with a version of its recent single "Love or Leave." via NPR
Love it! They should come perform in Minneapolis sometime. Next year's African Summer at the Cedar, perhaps?
-Nekessa
How welcoming is Minnesota to newcomers? Thatâs the question being posed by The Advocates for Human Rights. This year and next, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit is monitoring, documenting, and assessing the experiences of immigrants and other key communities against international human rights standards. Itâs part of a project called the One Voice Minnesota Network, an effort to build more welcoming communities statewide by providing tools and resources and promoting collaborations.
Next Wednesday, May 30, the public will have an opportunity to learn more about the Advocatesâ work and how to utilize the Twin Cities Daily Planet and various social media tools to become better connected, more effective immigrant rights advocates. âWelcome to Minnesota: A Conversation about Immigration and Human Rightsâ is a free event, co-hosted by the Twin Cities Media Alliance.
This will be the first in a series of community events organized by the Twin Cities Daily Planet, with support from the Bush Foundation. Last yearâs series of âNew Normalâ articles and community conversations definined challenges Minnesotans face in the current economic climate and identified possible solutions. This year the focus is on action steps. Between now and November, the Daily Planet will co-sponsor community meetings with approximately 20 organizations that emphasize civic engagement as a key element of their work.
Immigration will be the subject of three of those meetings. Other topics are education, work, environment, health care, and transportation.
The meetings will allow organizations like The Advocates for Human Rights to introduce themselves, describe their work, and identify ways the public can mobilize and become more involved. Twin Cities Media Alliance staff will present on how citizens can use new media to particiapte more fully in conversations and take action on the issues most important to them. Ample time will be provided for mingling and networking.Â
The Advocates provide several ways for people to plug in and be involved, including: becoming a cyberlobbyist, sending postcards, organizing workshops, showing a film, starting a book club, or monitoring media. Involving volunteers in research, education, and advocacy is a key way the organization builds broad constituencies in the United States and select communities globally.Â
Promoting civil society and reinforcing the rule of law through working to implement international human rights standards has been a core mission of The Advocates for Human Rights for over 25 years. In addition to immigrant rights, the Advocates focus on human rights in the United States, international justice, and womenâs human rights.
- Bruce Johansen
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Spokesman Recorder's Dwight Hobbes interviewed me last month for Women's History Month.Â
-Nekessa
A couple of boys playing chess draughts (checkers) using found objects, mostly rocks and twigs, outside the Brian Coyle Center in Minneapolis.
-Nekessa
newminnesotans:
Its wonderful to see the Nobel Peace Prize committee acknowledge the work of women during conflict. This yearâs laureates were Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner. It is a victory in many ways: only one...
A prayer ceremony led by traditional drum groups and dancers of the North America, and Meshikas of Mexico and Central and South America at the Hennepin Govt Center, now known as the People's Plaza by OccupyMn protesters.Â
âIndigenous peoples of North and South America [were at the People's Plaza] to reoccupy our sacred Mother Earth. We will join together as one on this day of national mourning of the genocide of 120 million indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as American and the world celebrates the pirate Columbus.â
See more photos here.Â
Images from Minnesota's first day of "Occupy" protests at the "People's Plaza."
I was in downtown Minneapolis for most of the day and took close to 500 photos! Click here to get a glimpse of some of them.Â

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Kathryn Haddadâs Zafira the Olive Oil Warrior looks at what would happen if Arab and Muslim Americans were held in internment camps just as Japanese Americans were in the â40s. In this haunting play, school teacher Vicki, played by Taous Khazem, is emboldened by her alter-ego, Zafira. I interview...
The Economist makes the case for Minnesota Nice in immigration:
The difference may be partly because, when it comes to immigration, Minnesota is more like Canada than the rest of the United States. Being far removed from Latin America, the main source of immigrants to the country in general, Minnesota has little cause to worry about unauthorised migration.
But it is also a matter of policy. The state has been a national leader in refugee resettlement programmes since the 1980s, and its main metropolis, the twinned cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, has adopted a series of initiatives aimed at supporting refugees of all kinds as well as regular migrants.
Both are sanctuary cities, for example, meaning that police are barred from asking about migration status during the normal course of business. They have also spent money on integration. Mr Samatarâs centre, for example, specialises in helping African immigrants who want to start small businesses.
Click through title to read the article in its entirety.
-Nekessa
I haven't met Timon Bondo, but I have heard a lot about him from many older Kenyans who live here in the cities. Perhaps, it is time I gave him a visit. The Strib's Curt Brown writes a heartwarming piece about this how Mr. Bondo came to the states and continued to live here while building two schools in his hometown on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya.Â
(click through the title to read the profile)
-Nekessa
Finding my Minnesota identity: the Star Tribune's Curt Brown writes a nice profile of my work on his weekly column My Minnesota.
(click through title to read the story)
-Nekessa
This. Yes, this. Dear Minnesota, I hope we beat the marriage amendment in 2012. And here's New York to encourage us right along.Â
-Nekessa
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I-35W Pride
In honor of Pride weekend, the I-35W bridge lighting will be rainbow colors this weekend. Click thru to view large on Flickr.

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Hard Times. Today, I met Patrick at the Hard Times Cafe in Minneapolis. As irony would have it, he has fallen on hard times and has been selling flowers for the past two years on the West Bank. Turns out he is a Nigerian immigrant with a masters degree in pharmacy; and lost his job two years ago. He insisted on buying me one of his roses. Pink for friendship, he said.Â
-Nekessa
We learned from the 2010 Census that Minnesotaâs population became more diverse between 2000 and 2010. There are nearly 107,000 more Hispanic residents in Minnesota today than there were 10 years ago. And residents who checked the box next to âBlack, African American, or Negroâ on their 2010 Census form rose almost as much: close to 103,000 people. Immigrants settling in Minnesota are driving this new diversity, and as their children come of age and start their own families, Minnesota communities will likely become still more diverse.
via Minnpost.Â