OpenForum Programme - Money, Power & Sex: The Paradox of Unequal Growth

MONEY, POWER & SEX: The paradox of unequal growth

Welcome to the inaugural OpenForum

MONEY, POWER & SEX: The paradox of unequal growth “While economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not affect the goods they exchange, this is untrue. Markets leave their mark.

Sometimes, market values crowd out nonmarket norms…. Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?” 1

While this question is asked in the most ‘developed’ of economic contexts, in the United States of America, it lies at the heart of what this conference seeks to discuss. At a time when Africa presents a new frontier for investors, an alternative growth hub for those seeking to feed their growing populations, and the best hope for mitigating the effects of climate change, it is appropriate that we ask what Africans will not put up for sale. It is imperative that civic actors and states begin to dialogue about defining the limits, to better understand where the limits of the market lie.

The world order is changing. And Africa is changing with it – rapidly.

But it is unclear where this change will lead. Economies are booming,

but inequalities are deepening. Elections are spreading, but genuine democracies are few and far between.

Technology is opening up amazing possibilities, but many governments are continuing to stifle free expression. Women’s rights are expanding on paper, but not in reality as a fierce backlash threatens the gains made in recent decades. Popular protests have swept some corrupt regimes from office, but provoked greater oppression elsewhere.

Co-hosted by the four Open Society Africa Foundations (OSIEA, OSFSA, OSISA and OSIWA), the OpenForum represents the first event of its kind – bringing together a select group of activists, academics, artists, businesspeople and policy-makers to take a critical look at the factors

1. Micheal Sandel, Huffington Post

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driving change on the continent and how these will influence the African democracy, development, human rights and governance agendas over the next decade. In particular, the OpenForum will focus on the roles of India, Brazil and China as engines of economic growth on the continent, but also as increasingly important actors in the political and social affairs of African countries.

A number of factors make this event unique. On the one hand, we are pleased to be able to bring together a set of actors who rarely speak to one another – activists, academics and technocrats who work on development questions, such as health, livelihoods and education, will have an opportunity to connect with those who are engaged on questions of human rights, and with a different set of actors who work on governance issues. On the other hand, the OpenForum speakers represent a wide range of ages and experiences – from those who have been in their fields for decades to those who offer newer perspectives, whose voices may not yet have been heard on international platforms.

Common to all those attending will be a clear commitment to being game changers – to supporting ideas, institutions and initiatives that seek to change the rules of the game and so address Africa’s gaping inequalities, which are only widening as the rush for the continent’s mineral wealth intensifies.

In an era when funding for strategic conversations is diminishing, the OpenForum provides a space for all participants – both prominent figures and younger, newer actors – to exchange ideas about the economic, social and political implications of the emerging world order and what action needs to be taken to ensure that Africa changes for the better – for all its people, not just for a few.

Organised under the theme of Money, Power and Sex: The paradox of unequal growth, the OpenForum includes a series of high-powered plenaries aimed at shaping the big ideas, a host of thought-provoking debates on critical issues, and a packed programme of afternoon sessions that were selected following an open call

for proposals – as well as photo exhibitions, documentary film screenings and a concert by Femi Kuti, whose outspokenness on questions of inequality have earned him a reputation as an artist with a conscience.

While the OpenForum will provide an unapologetic space for reflection and debate, it has also been designed to serve as a space for the four Open Society Foundations operating in Africa to agree on a common set of issues that they will address programmatically in the coming decade. Most importantly, for participants attending without an institutional agenda, the objective of the OpenForum is to build momentum around some fundamental questions – the most important of which is the question that Micheal Sandel asks.

If we agree that not everything is for sale in Africa, then let us define the boundaries and agree on what exactly we will not sell. And then, let us craft an agenda for protecting human rights and guaranteeing development and good governance that is premised on these limits.

Zohra Dawood Executive Director Open Society Foundation for South Africa

Binaifer Nowrojee Executive Director Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa

Sisonke Msimang Executive Director Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa

Abdul Tejan-Cole Executive Director Open Society Initiative for West Africa

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BRING US YOUR IDEAS. LET’S TURN THEM INTO ACTION.

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OpenFOrum ITINERARY 22

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DAy 1: MONEY Cape Town International Convention Centre

08.30 08.35 09.15 09.30

Welcome remarks Keynote Conversation – Aryeh Neier, OSF President Overview of the OpenForum Plenary: Who will finance Africa’s development?

11.00 Tea break 11.30 Plenary: Can global institutions work for Africa?

13.00 Lunch 14.00 Parallel Debates: In the shadow of giants: South Africa and Nigeria African philanthropy Exploding the myths: China and India in Africa Google zone: 10x10 Educate girls, change the world 15.30 Tea break 16.00 Encounters and Innovators: Stream I 17.15 Encounters and Innovators: Stream II

19.30 Jozi Gold – Premiere of documentary film on mining pollution

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DAy 2: POWER Cape Town International Convention Centre

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08.30 Overview of Power Day 08.45 Keynote Address – Mrs Fatou Bensouda, ICC Deputy Prosecutor 10.00 Plenary: The Arab uprisings: Spring revolution or a summer of discontent?

11.30 Tea break 12.00 Plenary: The good, the bad and the ugly: How elections in Africa confirm and confound what we know about inequality 13.30 Lunch

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14.30 Parallel Debates: Artists and activists talk politics Winner takes all: Corruption and politics 16.00 Tea break 16.30 Encounters and Innovators

19.30 Hot sweaty show with Femi Kuti

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DAy 3: SEX Cape Town International Convention Centre

08.30 Overview of Sex Day 08.45 Plenary: Are women occupying new movements?

10.15 Tea break 10.45 Plenary: The politics of sexual pleasure 12.15 Tea break 12.30 Parallel Debates: Playing politics with gay rights Cultural and religious fundamentalisms: Confronting the backlash In our own image: Defining African-ness 14.00 Lunch 15.00 Closing plenary: Changing the rules, changing the game and changing the future

17.00 !khwa ttu San cultural evening 19.30 Robert Mugabe, What Happened? – Documentary film and Q&A

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MONEY Africa is booming. Even the Economist – which in 2000 published its unfortunate Hopeless Continent edition dedicated to Africa – has acknowledged that the continent is on the rise with soaring economic growth rates and increasingly friendly investment climates. But in many African countries, inequality is also soaring – with evidence that very little of the new found wealth is dripping down to those at the bottom.

While there have been incremental gains for many poor people, it is clear that overall the gap between those who have and those who do not have has grown in the last decade.

The global demand for Africa’s natural resources could be the springboard for sustainable socioeconomic development. In countries with strong regulatory environments, the current mining boom has had a positive effect on the overall economy but in most countries, which have little capacity to regulate the extraction of resources, the benefits for poorer communities have been more difficult to measure. Indeed, where political instability and minerals collide, there has often been conflict. But with investment flooding into the continent, African

countries have the chance to change the game – by ensuring that the continent’s long-awaited economic success translates into opportunities for ordinary people and that growing economies help to reduce inequality rather than increase it.

The first day of the OpenForum will seek to deepen our understanding of the factors that will influence meaningful economic growth. In particular, there are five areas of focus for the discussions on Money: (a) ensuring Africa’s natural resources genuinely benefit its people through replicable models of company and state transparency, accountability and commitment to the welfare of local communities and the environment; (b) understanding the role of big business in supporting policy change and in influencing political processes; (c) exploring the introduction of large-scale commercial models of agriculture and the effects that these have on patterns of rural poverty; (d) better understanding the effects of large-scale concessioning of land to private concerns in Europe, North America, Latin America and China; and, (e) the negotiation of ports, power supplies, railways, and other important infrastructure.

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WELCOME REMARKS

KEYNOTE CONVERSATION WITH ARYEH NEIER

OVERVIEW OF THE OPENFORUM

Aryeh Neier, President of Open Society Foundations (OSF), reflects on the state of the human rights movement both globally and in Africa, highlighting major successes and failures over the last two decades – and the critical challenges that confront activists today.

And how that will affect OSF’s work on the continent. Aryeh Neier will be in conversation with Akwe Amosu, OSF Director of Africa Advocacy.

Sisonke Msimang, Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), will outline the objectives of the OpenForum.

Zohra Dawood, Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA)

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TUESDAy 9.30 PLENARY:

WHO WILL FINANCE AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT? The opening plenary will discuss Africa’s development trajectory over the next decade and seek to understand how it can be financed in light of the Eurozone crisis, the end of the Millennium Development Goals framework, the extractives-led economic boom in many parts of the continent, and the growing importance of China, India and Brazil as investors and development partners.

Graca Machel (Renowned women and child rights activist) Professor Thandika Mkandawire (Professor of African Development, LSE) Charles Abugre (Regional Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign) Neville Gabriel (Executive Director of the Southern African Trust) Moderator: Joanna Kerr (CEO of ActionAid International)

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11.00 Tea Break 11.30 PLENARY:

CAN GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS WORK FOR AFRICA? The early 2000s saw increasing support for the launch of global initiatives concerned with monitoring funds from the extractive industries (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI) and innovative financing (Global Fund To Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria), which promised to transform how funds for development were put to use. yet these institutions – despite evidence that they have helped to change the game – are experiencing growing pains as commitment from donors, governments and key partners waxes and wanes. yet as inequality grows, figuring out how to make global institutions more accountable to Africans is now more important than ever.

Dr Michel Kazatchkine (former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria) Clare Short (Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) yao Graham (Executive Director of the Third World Network) Liepollo Lebohang Pheko (Executive Director of the Trade Collective) Moderators: Tawanda Mutasah (OSF Director of Programmes) and Anne Gathumbi (Health and Rights Programme Manager, OSIEA)

13.00 Lunch 14.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS:

IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS: NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA In recent months, a diplomatic war of words has erupted between South Africa and Nigeria. And yet there are deep ties between the two countries and many connections between their citizens.

Furthermore, while there are notable differences, there are strong similarities in the economies of both countries, which are heavily commodity-dependent, and in the important role both countries play in their respective regions and on the continent.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (former Deputy President of South Africa) Professor Adebayo Olukoshi (Director, UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning) Moderator: Akwe Amosu (OSF Director of Africa Advocacy) Day 1: MONEY

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AFRICAN PHILANTHROPY: In 2010, TrustAfrica – one of the OpenForum’s technical partners – commissioned research that indicated that a significant challenge in African philanthropy is “that of relevance beyond local coping. Giving amongst people with little ‘keeps the lid on poverty’ just as much as it speaks to a deeply rooted culture of mutual aid and reciprocity. A key theme is if and how African philanthropy could more effectively grapple with structural and systemic issues of poverty and injustice.”

This session looks at the role of African communities and individuals as key players in financing development and social justice, and how they can tap into new models and approaches.

Jay Naidoo (Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) Janet Mawiyoo (CEO of the Kenya Community Development Foundation) Dr Wieber Boer (CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation) Cedric Ntumba (Chair of SA Ballet and Deal Executive at Capitalworks) Moderator: Dr Akwasi Aidoo (Executive Director of TrustAfrica)

ExPLODING THE MYTHS: CHINA AND INDIA IN AFRICA China, in particular, has a reputation in Africa for economic ruthlessness. yet the reality of Chinese and Indian investment and migration are more nuanced and complex and need to be looked at in the context of broader investment trends on the continent – including the investment trail of South Africa. This session seeks to understand where the myths come from, and how to address the reality of investment patterns and their implications.

Aniket Alam (Senior Assistant Editor for the Economic and Political Weekly) Professor Pang Zhongying (Professor of International Relations, Renmin University of China) Buddy Buruku (Engagement Manager, Africa-China Practice, African Centre for Economic Transformation) Howard French (Associate Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) Moderator: Deprose Muchena (OSISA Deputy Director)

GOOGLE ZONE: 10x10 – EDUCATE GIRLS, CHANGE THE WORLD 10x10: Educate Girls, Change the World is a feature film and digital social action campaign launched by an award-winning team of former ABC News journalists. 10x10’s core message: Educating girls in the developing world will bring about transformational global change. Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, Mona Eltahawy, writer for the Egypt chapter of the 10x10 film, and eL Seed, 10x10 Global Champion, will discuss their perspectives on girls’ and women’s empowerment and how 10x10 is amplifying a global message through storytelling and social media, bringing a synergistic level of awareness to the subject of girls’ education.

Mona Eltahawy (Award-winning columnist) eL Seed (Internationally acclaimed public artist)

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Democracy for sale? Secret party funding – South Africa’s next democratic challenge Eighteen years since the momentous elections of 1994, South African democracy is threatened by a rising tide of corruption. Secret, unlimited donations to political parties are a critical part of the problem. This session will explore institutional corruption in party funding and propose solutions based on good practice abroad.

Barbara Hogan (former South African Minister of Health and Public Enterprises), Professor Anthony Butler (University of Cape Town), Ebrahim Fakir (Manager of Governance Institutions and Processes, Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa), Daniel Weeks (Money and Politics Project) Hitching business and development: An uncomfortable partnership or good for both?

Harnessing the private sector to developmental goals without hobbling its creative power could dramatically change the lives of millions of people on the continent.

This session seeks to highlight how this may be achieved – particularly by focussing on the role of large corporations.

Stewart Paperin (President of Soros Economic Development Fund, SEDF), Daniel Bradlow (SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations at the University of Pretoria), Scott Gilmore (CEO Building Markets), Cedric de Beer (Director Africa Operations, SEDF), Dr Claude Kabemba (Director, Southern Africa Resource Watch) Fairy-tale or sordid reality? The ‘rule of law’, the United Nations and Africa With the UN General Assembly discussing the ‘rule of law’ in September, this session intends to promote a discussion among participants about the rule of law in their own countries and internationally, what is needed to make it work as an effective bulwark against corrosive power, and the role it can play in answering questions raised by the tectonic global transformation of the past 18 months.

James Goldston (Executive Director of the Open Society Justice Initiative), Gareth Newham (Institute for Security Studies), Jamesina King (former chair of Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission) Building on Busan: Creating an enabling environment for civil society The 2011 Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness attended by many African governments agreed to guarantee an ‘enabling environment’ for civil society but failed to articulate the key elements. However, these are

clearly outlined in principles developed by civil society based on international legal texts. So how do we create – and measure progress towards – a genuinely ‘enabling environment’? And how do we ensure better support for human rights defenders at greatest risk?

Netsanet Belay (Policy and Research Director, CIVICUS), Sari Naskinen (Deputy Director, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) Improving transparency of contracts and payments in the extractive sector: Securing national reform in Africa and supporting international standards Citizens want information about the returns that governments receive for natural resources and about where the money goes - both of which are key to obtaining a clearer picture of a country’s revenue management landscape. This session aims to explore issues around utilising international standards and promoting national reforms in Africa.

Emmanuel Kuyole (Africa Regional Coordinator for the Revenue Watch Institute), Hon. Albert Kan-Dapaah (Chair of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament of Ghana), Hon. Gbehzohngar Milton Findley (Grand Bassa County Senior Senator in the Liberian Senate) Same-sex, power and money: Is the North still the ally of choice for LGBTI groups?

There is a growing critique within LGBTI movements in Africa of interventions by states and NGOs from the North, such as the recent aid conditionality debate. Simultaneously, Brazil, India and South Africa have emerged as leaders on LGBTI issues and jurisprudence. How important will these emerging actors be and what will a greater emphasis on Southern solidarity mean in terms of organising, funding and localising sexual citizenship?

Kene Esom (Policy Coordinator, Law and Human Rights, AMSHeR), Colin Robinson (Director, Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation, Trinidad and Tobago), Siphokazi Mthati (General Secretary, TAC), Jandira Queiroz e Cavalcanti (Sexuality Policy Watch, Brazil), Arvind Narrain (Alternative Law Forum, India) The subtle and the bold: The power and sexiness of LGBTI advocacy This session will explore different and innovative advocacy approaches that have been used by organisations in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and South Africa’s Eastern Cape to tackle the marginalisation of LGBTI people – and to allow them to reclaim space in society.

Sian Maseko (Director, Sexual Rights Centre), Sikhulile Sibanda (Artist and activist), Mojalifa Ndlovu (LGBTI officer, Sexual Rights Centre) Day 1: MONEY

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Patriarchy and publishing: Breaking African media’s gender and sexual stereotypes This session will involve discussions and lesson-sharing around the experiences of activist-minded (but mainstream-aimed) African media groups, which are trying to push for gender equality and tolerance in countries where both the state and major advertisers – whose revenues the groups need to survive – are largely intolerant.

Crystal Svankier (Founder of DUST magazine), Kobina Graham (Editor of DUST), Regina Jane Jere-Malanda (Editor of New African Woman), Mmaphuthi Morule (Trigger Isobar, South Africa).

In our own words and pictures: Rescripting our stories and political resistance This session will revolve around photographs exploring the dynamics of social inequalities that were captured in 60 hours by 6 black lesbian women from Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township and 10 lesbian women and 2 trans men from Harare. The ensuing discussions will highlight the challenges presented by different environments and look at new ways of strengthening support across borders – not only in southern Africa but with individuals working across the Global South.

Zanele Muholi (Photographer and activist), Fadzai Muparutsa (Coordinator of PaKasipiti), Lindeka Qampi (Photographer and activist) Annual status of education report: How informed citizens can hold governments to account Panelists from South Asia and Guinea Bissau will present an innovative methodology for mobilising and empowering citizens to hold governments to account for improving education – through the use of a nationwide survey of education outcomes conducted by citizens themselves.

Nargis Sultana (Foundation Open Society Institute), Dr Baela Jamil (Director of Programmes for Idara-e-Taleemo-Aagahi, Pakistan), Purnima Ramanujan (Assessment Survey Evaluation Research centre, India), Ila Fazzio (Effective Intervention, Guinea Bissau) Organising online: How feminists are exploiting cyber activism Online activism is booming. Videos go viral. Email petitions acquire millions of signatures and activists blog, tweet and Facebook their causes. So how are feminists using these tools to change society – from new ways of campaigning to connecting with other feminists online, from managing safety and security online to successfully linking online and offline activism.

Hakima Abbas (Executive Director of Fahamu), Gathoni Blessol (Watetezi-haki platform), Jan Moolman 10

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(Association for Progressive Communications), Minna Salami (Writer and blogger - Ms Afropolitan), Spectra A.I. Asala (writer, activist and voice behind Spectra Speaks) African Charter and the fight for the AU chair: A new dawn for governance in Africa?

The contest over the AU chair created a lot of headlines and head-scratching but what does it mean for governance in Africa? Meanwhile, there was almost no fanfare when the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance came into force – is that because it won’t change anything? This panel will discuss these two events and whether they signed is a new dawn for African governance.

Dr Kojo Busia (Chief of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism Support Section, UNECA), Dr Mbaya Kankwenda (Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Development Research and Strategic Studies on Africa), Mary Wandia Wanjiru (OSIEA and AfriMAP Regional Programme Officer), Dr Adele Jinadu (Professor of political science at the University of Lagos) When blind justice reinforces exclusion: The failure of the justice system to accommodate all Justice systems are meant to be ‘blind’ but they often mirror societal biases – locking up the poor and the marginalised while the powerful go free. An illuminating case study is the experience of people with disabilities, for whom encounters with the justice system can be anything but just. This session will highlight how innovative approaches are making justice more accessible for people with disabilities across the continent.

Tirza Leibowitz (OSF Rights Initiatives), Carol Bosch (Cape Mental Health), Wamundila Waliuya (Zambia Federation of Disability Organizations), Gift Manyatera (Dean of the faculty of law at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe), Gwendoline Daniels (South African Federation for Mental Health) Blind development approaches do not work: Time for a new approach This session looks at how the conflict blindness of the MDGs is reinforced by the development blindness in peace and security – and what can be done to prevent another similarly disabling and contradictory set of Goals, which are impossible to deliver in conflict settings and which are deeply unhelpful to advancing gender equality, from being passed again.

Vanessa Farr (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), Dean Peacock (Executive Director, Sonke Gender Justice), Dareen Khattab (UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People), David Tamba (Chair of Men Engage, Sierra Leone)

Google zone - Do no harm: The positives and negatives of international advocacy on Africa Taking three case studies - Save Darfur, Congo conflict minerals and Kony 2012, the panel will examine the advocacy strategies of these campaigns, what worked and what didn’t, the long-term implications and whether we’ve learned any lessons about how to advocate better internationally on African human rights issues.

Sarah Pray (OSF Africa policy analyst), Amir Osman (OSF Senior policy analyst for Africa), Dismas Nkunda (Codirector of the International Refugee Rights Initiative), Pascal Kambale (OSISA DRC Country Director)

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China and African peace and security: principle or pragmatism?

Insecurity in Africa affects China: putting Chinese investments, its energy security and the large numbers of Chinese nationals working on the continent at risk.

Meanwhile, China’s involvement has enormous implications for African security: commercial investments and development assistance, diplomacy, voting at the UN Security Council, military cooperation, peacekeepers and arms transfers all impact on Africa’s security landscape. A distinguished panel will look at what this means for both China and Africa.

Prof Pang Zhongying (Professor of International Relations, Renmin University of China), Ambassador (rtd) Ochieng Adala (Acting Executive Director, Africa Peace Forum), Berouk Mesfin (Institute for Security Studies, Addis Ababa), Prof Jiang Hengkun (Deputy Director, Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University), Bernardo Mariani (China Programme Manager, Saferworld) ‘Streams of blood, streams of money’: The legacy of the supressed history of genocides against the indigenous peoples of southern Africa and their implications for 21st century indigenous marginalisation This panel will discuss the colonial genocides of the late 19th and early 20th centuries against indigenous populations and the role of colonial and post-colonial ‘genocide amnesia’ and its links to the marginalisation of indigenous peoples in southern Africa today from the perspectives of a San elder’s oral memory and that of researchers, historians and activists.

Dawid Kruiper (!khomani San), Casper Erichsen (coauthor of The Kaiser’s Holocaust), Professor Mohamed Adhikari (University of Cape Town), Job Morris (young San activist)

Making it their business? The potential role of the business sector in supporting and resourcing LGBTI causes in South Africa Inyathelo will present the findings of an exploratory South African study – the first of its kind – looking at the potential of the business sector to support and resource organisations and initiatives that advance, defend and secure the rights of LGBTI people.

Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge (Inyathelo), Gerald Kraak (South Africa Programme Executive for Reconciliation and Human Rights, Atlantic Philanthropies) Defusing electoral crises: The impact of civil society situation rooms in recent West African polls The Situation Room was designed as a virtual and physical platform for information sharing among civil society groups to better enhance collaboration and rapid response to emergencies associated with the electoral process. The concept has already been implemented in recent polls in Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal – with remarkable results.

Nwagwu Ezenwa Sampson (Alliance for Credible Elections), Adomayakpor Tete (Senegal Country Manager, OneWorld UK), Joe Pemagbi (OSIWA, Liberia), Udo Jude Ilo (OSIWA, Nigeria), Hawa Ba (OSIWA, Senegal) Unlikely alliances: sex, power and new ideas from the margins This panel will present three ground-breaking projects from Kenya and Namibia in which sexual minorities and marginalised women address power imbalances and protect human rights by forging unlikely alliances with traditional authorities and law enforcement bodies. But what are the risks of forming strategic alliances with groups whose values may not align with human rights principles?

Anne Gathumbi (Health and Rights Programme Manager, OSIEA), Tom Odhiambo (Director of Keeping Alive Societies’ Hope), Melba Katisivo (Lawyer, Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS), Jennifer GatsiMallet (Director of the Namibia Women’s Health Network) Google Zone: African women writers on education, literature and open society in Africa Panellists will touch on their experience in writing these stories; how and why key social policy discussions can be more accessible to a wider audience through literature and culture than policy advocacy; and what this means for an Open Society.

Margie Orford (Author and Executive Vice-President of PEN), Petina Gappah (Zimbabwean author), Nathalie Handal (Author and member of Writers Bloc), Zukiswa Wanner (South African author) Day 1: MONEY

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Shadowing IBSA: Towards a civil society network to monitor human rights in foreign policy A common vision for promoting human rights is an explicit component of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) relationship, as is support for the key role that civil society plays in the development of IBSA initiatives. This session will explore the prospects for IBSA civil society to monitor and influence decisions on human rights.

Lucia Nader (Executive Director, Connectas, Brazil), Siphokazi Mthathi (Convenor, Forum for International Solidarity, South Africa), Maja Daruwala (Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, India), Emily Alinikoff (Brookings Institution, US), Mandeep Tiwana (CIVICUS) Citizenship and statelessness in Africa This panel discussion with speakers from several different African countries will focus on the struggle to obtain the non-discriminatory right to a nationality.

L. Wanyeki Muthoni (former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission), Dismas Nkunda (Co-Director of the International Refugee Rights Initiative), Munzoul Assal (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum), Ibrahima Kane (OSF Director of African Union Advocacy) Exploring traditional gender roles as the root cause of violence against women How do gender roles impact society’s reactions to violence against women? How do perceptions of gender permit husbands to batter their wives? Or allow men to rape lesbians as a form of ‘correction’? This session will discuss how societal perceptions of gender roles impact on different areas of women’s rights (including domestic violence, sexual assault, health, media and the arts) and how we can address them.

Spectra A.I. Asala (writer, activist and voice behind Spectra Speaks), Lesley Gene Agams Esq (Feminist lawyer, domestic violence advocate), Christel Antonites (Hub of Lesbian Action for non-heteronormative African Women and their Allies), Zanela Muholi (Photographer and activist) What they don’t teach you at any business school: Students and sexual consciousness This panel will discuss how to create consciousness around sexuality in a way that enables sexual awareness and independence among the youth – and enhances active citizenry.

In particular, the panellists will debate how to overcome the way that government, religions, cultures and families regard sexuality as a problem and so supress it.

Henry Berrain (Sierra Leonean studying MPhil at Monash University, SA), Dionne Morris (MA student at Monash), Chido Muparutsa (Zimbabwean feminist and BA student at Monash), Tendai Matsika (Student at Monash) 12

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Power to the people: citizens’ efforts to promote accountability and influence the use of public money In many countries, citizens are publicly protesting to claim back their power. This session will examine strategies and tools used by actors to put pressure on the state to meet its obligations and ensure their socio-economic rights. In particular, the session will analyse the role of community agency in unleashing citizen’s power and political capital and strategies for building sustainable social movements.

Dr Walter Flores (Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en los Sistemas de Salud, Guatemala), Albert van Zyl (International Budget Partnership), Mbengeni Nyamukadi Netshidzivhe (The Mupo Foundation, South Africa), Robinah Kaitiritimba (Uganda National Health Consumers’ Organization), Pastor Lewis Nkhoma (National Association of the Deaf and Development of Zambia) New media for health and rights activism: Opportunities and obstacles Social media and the use of smart phones offers many possibilities and opportunities for campaigning and organising, as well as for transforming or improving health care in a range of African countries. But with these opportunities come challenges and risks. This panel will share examples of innovative initiatives and explore some of the tensions and their implications.

Paula Akugizibwe (writer and activist), Rachel Gichinga (Kuweni Serious, Kenya), Elsie Eyakuze (blogger and social media commentator, Tanzania), Lukonga Lindunda (cofounder of the Bongo Hive, Zambia) Crime and violence prevention: Developing integrated approaches in southern and East Africa The OSF Crime and Violence Prevention Initiative believes that the criminal justice system alone cannot curb violence and that an integrated, longterm approach that addresses the root causes and drivers of crime is needed. This session will showcase the innovative work that is being done in Kenya, Mozambique and Namibia to test and document this approach to violence prevention.

Louise Ehlers (OSISA Law Programme), Santos Joas (Urban Trust of Namibia), Albino Forquilha (Formicres, Mozambique), Philip Onguje (Usalama Reform Forum, Kenya) No money, no power, no sex: Youth with disabilities in Africa African youth with Disabilities (AyWD) are excluded from human rights enjoyment at all levels and are those most at risk of HIV/AIDS, illiteracy, unemployment and poverty. This session will illustrate how the AyWD

network are using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to advocate for their full inclusion and participation in society.

Fredrick Ouko (AYWDN, Kenya), Samrawit Biyazin (AYWDN, Ethiopia), James Rwampigi (Disability rights activist, Uganda), Jacinta Wanjiku (Kenya Association of the Intellectually Handicapped) Foreign land ownership and dispossession The last 25 years have witnessed increasing concentration of the ownership of land in the hands of foreign countries and domestic elites – and greater displacement of rural people. This session will discuss the impact of this ‘re-colonisation’ on rights and democracy, and propose alternative policies.

Sam Moyo (Executive Director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies), Dzodzi Tsikata (Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy)

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POWER For five decades, Africa has struggled to define its political identity. What democracy looks like on the continent, and what it should look like, have been subjects of contestation. Given the influence of former colonisers on the political systems of various countries, the advent of the BRICS countries provides an opportunity to reflect on what outsiders can, and should do, to influence African political systems, when they are shorn of the baggage of colonisation. The fact that Brazil, India and China present such diverse domestic human rights situations is worth considering.

With a robust commitment to human rights at home and in global policy circles, Brazil could be a positive influence on the continent but its private sector practices require interrogation. India, with its longstanding commitment to democracy and a booming economy, could also be a positive lever of change, yet its significant challenges of poverty and inequality present questions about its own model of growth.

Lastly, China, with its fast growing economy and increasing interest in the world, has been the subject of much scholarly attention but little policy focus.

The second day of the OpenForum will focus on if – and how – politics on the continent will change as a new world order is constructed. With countries

from the developing world increasingly calling for the democratisation of global policymaking and with the economic might of the BRICS becoming more evident, African countries have a new leverage around global foreign policy and human rights conversations. For example, in recent years, Arab and African countries have voted in blocs to successfully challenge attempts to broaden the human rights space for marginalised groups such as gays and lesbians. At the same time, the North African and Arab uprisings have demonstrated the power of individuals to overthrow regimes in ways that many political analysts could not have predicted.

The sessions on Day 2 will focus on (a) what the Arab Uprisings can teach sub-Saharan Africa about political transitions, as well as what limitations these uprisings have faced; (b) what the rise of the BRICS countries means for African politics and African politicians; (c) whether human rights and good governance – increasingly held up as pre-conditions for aid from Western countries in the last two decades – are likely to suffer as a result of increased economic and development assistance from the emerging powers; and, (d) where the new thought leadership and activism will come from to address the political and economic inequalities that continue to plague the continent.

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Theo Sowa, interim CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund

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to continue prosecuting high-level individuals accused of involvement in international crimes. At the same time, the increasing influence of the BRICS countries raises new questions. While Brazil and South Africa are parties to the Rome Statute, India and China are not. Mrs Fatou Bensouda is the ICC’s Deputy Prosecutor and ProsecutorElect and she will reflect on how the Court and its work are likely to shift in the years ahead.

Introduction: Tawanda Mutasah (OSF Director of Programmes) Moderator: James Goldston (Executive Director, Open Society Justice Initiative)

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THE ARAB UPRISINGS: SPRING REVOLUTION OR A SUMMER OF DISCONTENT? For the past eighteen months, there has been significant media attention on the changes taking place in the Middle East and North Africa.

Dramatic scenes of ‘people power’ have captured the imaginations of many. At the same time, the Occupy movements, which have challenged the global economic order, have also provided new energy to social movements. When the uprising began, many activists in sub-Saharan Africa suggested that the winds of change might sweep the rest of the continent. This panel take a close-up view of the revolutions and how they have affected the rest of the continent.

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Dr Shirin Ebadi (Iranian Nobel Laureate and human rights activist) Asef Bayat (Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mona Eltahawy (Award-winning Egyptian columnist) Dr Khaled Hroub (Director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project) Moderator: Chris Stone (Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government)

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: HOW ELECTIONS IN AFRICA CONFIRM AND CONFOUND WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT INEqUALITY Fifty years post colonialism, the peaceful transfer of power cannot be taken for granted in Africa. In Ivory Coast, the December 2010 elections resulted in a bloody standoff between the incumbent and his rival, while in Zimbabwe and Kenya, the last elections led to violence and bloodshed. But in Ghana a close election was accepted peacefully in 2009, while 2011 saw improved polls in Nigeria, an opposition victory in Zambia and Tunisia’s first genuinely democratic vote – but also flawed polls in the DRC. And Senegal’s 2012 elections saw the defeat of the two-term incumbent. This session looks at whether elections are improving, why we have them and whose interests they serve.

H.E. Joaquim Chissano (former President of the Republic of Mozambique) Dr Mamphela Ramphele (Founder of Citizens Movement for Social Change) Brian Kagoro (Regional Programme Advisor for UNDP’s Africa Governance and Public Administration) L. Muthoni Wanyeki (former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission) Moderator: Dr Siphamandla Zondi (Director of the Institute for Global Dialogue)

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A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS TALK POLITICS It has been just over fifty years since Things Fall Apart was published. Over the past five decades, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ayikwe Amah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and others have played an important role in giving voice to the political and social aspirations of Africans. Today, a new generation of Day 2: POWER

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African writers and artists has emerged and its leading lights are no less eloquent about the contemporary challenges facing the continent. The crisis of leadership that has dominated African politics for decades continues to provide fodder for the imaginations of new artists. Indeed, many of today’s artists channel the infamous statement that ‘politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit’. There has also been much said in the last few years about the need to counter Afropessimism – the notion of the hopeless continent. This session looks at what is new in terms of African leadership (not only in the realm of politics) fifty years since Achebe declared that ‘things fall apart’.

Femi Kuti (Nigerian singer) Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenyan author) Petina Gappah (Author and lawyer at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law) Ory Okolloh (Google’s Policy Manager for sub-Saharan African) Simphiwe Dana (South African singer) Moderator: Bibi Bakare-yusuf (Co-founder of Cassava Republic Press)

WINNER TAKES ALL: CORRUPTION AND POLITICS Corruption in Africa is often discussed in highly technical terms – through work around accountability and monitoring. While this work is important, and state architecture has been established to try and ensure that corruption does not divert resources from important national development initiatives, it is also true that these technical discussions do not often provide sufficient space to interrogate the root causes of corruption, and the ways in which systemic corruption allows certain political systems to function. Bringing together key actors in the global and continental fight against corruption. This session looks both at the prevention side – in terms of governance, ethics and social values, as well as the accountability side.

Andrew Feinstein (Author and founder of Corruption Watch) Tutu Alicante (Anti-corruption activist and Executive Director of EG Justice) Abdul Tejan-Cole (OSIWA Executive Director and former Anti-Corruption Commissioner, Sierra Leone) Moderator: Joanna Oyediran (OSF Sudan Programme Manager)

16.00 Tea Break 16.30 ENCOUNTERS AND INNOVATORS ICT innovation for social and political change in Africa This panel will showcase ICT innovations and new technologies that seek to expand the horizons of democracy, address key challenges faced by citizens on the continent and promote access to services by marginalised groups.

Daudi Were (Project Director at Ushahidi), Fungai Machirori (Founder of Her Zimbabwe), Zenzele Ndebele (Radio Dialogue, Bulawayo), Gustav Praekelt (Founder and CEO of Praekelt Group) Stronger together: Opportunities for joint action among BRICS civil society to improve accountability of oil, gas and mining companies BRICS-based extractive companies are increasingly engaged in Africa and impacting on economies and communities across the continent. This session will look at the feasibility of linking civil society 16

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organisations in the BRICS with those across Africa to strengthen monitoring and improve the accountability of BRICS companies.

Vanessa Herringshaw (Chair, Transparency and Accountability Initiative), Tim Hughes (South African Institute for International Affairs), Carlo Merla (Publish What You Pay Africa Coordinator), Sipho Moyo (Africa Director, ONE) When money and power determine access to medicines: Building a civil society movement to overcome this health inequality Despite advances in medical science, many lifesaving medicines remain largely inaccessible in developing countries, primarily because their price and availability are ruled by corporate interests and patents. This session discusses how a human rights and public health based approach can overcome current intellectual property barriers that have turned

medicines into luxury commodities, available only for the affluent.

Els Torreele (Director, Access to Essential Medicines Initiative, OSF Public Health Program), Nonkosi Khumalo (Chairperson of TAC), Gregg Gonsalves (AIDS activist and Open Society Fellow), Anne Gathumbi (Health and Rights Programme Manager, OSIEA) The African right to information model law: Empowering vulnerable groups to utilise their right to access information held by public institutions This session will discuss current efforts to draft an Africa Right to Information (RTI) Model Law to be adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at its 52nd Ordinary Session in 2012 – as well as experiences of using RTI to empower people, especially vulnerable and discriminated groups, to help promote and protect their human rights.

Pansy Tlakula (Special Rapporteur of Freedom of Expression in Africa), Mukelani Dimba (Open Democracy Advice Centre), Agnes Eboo (Citizens Governance Initiative, Cameroon), Wanjiru Gikonyo (Institute for Social Accountability) Cooperation between Brazil and Africa for educational development: The case of the South-South Cooperation Programme for the right to education Panellists will discuss the strategic potential of developing a progressive Lusophone bloc in education politics for social change, drawing on experiences in Brazil, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau.

Iracema Nascimento (Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education), Cleuza Repulho (Municipal Secretary of Education of São Bernardo do Campo and president of National Association of Municipal Secretaries of Education), Vença Mendes (Coordinator for the Network for Education for All, Guinea Bissau), Jacqueline Freire (University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony), Vitor Barbosa (Board President of the Angolan Network on Education for All) Stripped of their clothes and rights: How can Malawian women reclaim the streets?

The events of January 2012 demonstrated the alarming level of public and state gender intolerance and the corrosion of the women’s movement in Malawi. Women in major city streets were subjected to attacks for wearing miniskirts and trousers – and stripped of their clothes, rights and dignity. Approaching the events from performance, economic and artistic points-of-view, the panel proposes a model for people-centred protesting that can secure the streets for Malawian women.

Catherine Makhumula (Chancellor College, Zomba), Asante Lucy Mtenje (Catholic University, Blantyre), Ganizani Liwewe (Malawi Ministry of Transport)

Pedagogy of the oppressed: Raising consciousness in LGBTI and sex worker communities This session explores ways in which popular education is delivered and critical consciousness is raised among Africa’s vulnerable and marginalised communities.

Drawing from the experiences of two of Fahamu’s programme initiatives – the Movement Building Boot Camp for LGBTI activists and the PowWow Sex Worker Leadership Initiative – the session will push participants to think of learning as movement building and share alternative models for the ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’.

Hakima Abbas (Executive Director of FAHAMU), Jessica Horn (writer and activist), Hope Chigudu (JASS) Transgender and intersex: All you want to know but were too afraid to ask This session seeks to dispel the myths about intersex, transgender, transsexual and gender nonconforming people. And to answer some key questions – what does the term cisgender mean and what is its relationship to privilege? What is the relevance of intersex and trans when dealing with patriarchy?

Liesl Theron (Executive Director of Gender DynamiX), Julius Kaggwa (Director of Support Initiative for People with atypical sex development, Uganda), Tebogo Nkoana (Founder and director of Transgender and Intersex Africa) ICC and civil society: Conversation with the ICC Deputy Prosecutor An invite only session, the ICC Deputy Prosecutor and civil society representatives will take a close look at civil society engagement with the ICC and discuss how the Office of the Prosecutor and civil society can complement each other in promoting accountability for serious crimes.

Mrs Fatou Bensouda (ICC Deputy Prosecutor), Binaifer Nowrojee (Executive Director, OSIEA), Ibrahima Kane (OSF Director, AU Advocacy), Deirdre Clancy (Co-Director, International Refugee Rights Initiative), L Muthoni Wanyeki (former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission) Google Zone: Student mobilization for social change – Equal Education and the Chilean Student Movement Equal Education has been leading a new wave of student mobilisation for educational change in South Africa employing strategies that involve new media, marches, litigation and serious attention to social mobilisation and developing young leaders. The Chilean student movement has used similar strategies with tremendous effect at national level. yoliswa Dwane and Doron Isaacs (Equal Education), Miguel Crispi and Nicolas Rebolledo (Chilean Students Movement) Day 2: POWER

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SEX In the last two decades, the most successful social movement on the continent has been the women’s movement. Successes in policy and legislation have been significant. Yet there have been real concerns about the extent to which the gains of this movement have been able to affect the lives of poor and marginalised women. Post the Beijing Conference, many donors have reduced support to women’s rights organisations and, in recent years, the rise of religious fundamentalism has had a significant effect on women’s abilities to exercise their rights even where these rights exist in law.

With fewer resources available to support women’s rights organisations and with significant numbers of women’s rights activists having taken up leadership positions either within state structures or in donor agencies, many argue that the ‘movement’ is on the brink of collapse. Indeed, the women’s movement has been accused of being stagnant and of not recognising areas of progress towards gender equality and building upon these. Meanwhile, younger women and poor women are managing to mobilise outside the traditional ‘NGO-ised’ space that has been occupied by the women’s movement in Africa. This is creating new opportunities for civic growth, albeit ones that

do not conform to the ways in which the sector has traditionally been organised.

At the same time, in the last two years in particular, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community has grown more confident. Like the women’s movement before it, the LGBTI sector has had to craft arguments about how African gay people – and the extent to which the rights they seek to realise – are embedded in traditional contexts.

The third day of the OpenForum will focus on gender inequality and homophobia and the extent to which both continue to define virtually every society on the continent – and how to support social movements in a context of growing inequalities, where activists have fewer financial resources and are simultaneously required to address growing social discrimination. In particular, the sessions on Day 3 will look at the extent to which (a) the LGBTI movement (and other social movements) can learn and benefit from the gains of the women’s movement; and (b) new economic challenges intersect with the civil and political rights agendas that have traditionally been the domain of women’s groups and the LGBTI movement.

8.30 OVERVIEW OF SEx DAY Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, co-founder and Publishing Director of Cassava Republic Press

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ARE WOMEN OCCPUYING NEW MOVEMENTS? This session looks at the phenomenon of people power that has moved from Tahir Square to Lagos in the last 18 months with a view to understanding whether, in addition to women’s mobilisation in large numbers to support these movements against dictatorship and political repression, women have also led the internal leadership structures and determined the debates and discussions within these movements. The session also seeks to explore the extent to which new protest movements against global economic inequality have the potential to challenge economic models and phenomena that work against women and rest on unequal relations between women and men.

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Staceyann Chin (Jamaican poet and activist) yara Sallam (Human Rights Defenders Programme Manager at Nazra for Feminist Studies) Hakima Abbas (Executive Director of FAHAMU) Moderator: Zandi Sherman (Feminist activist)

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THE POLITICS OF SExUAL PLEASURE Over the last decade, there have been various attempts by states to regulate women’s attire, while there have also been regular outbreaks of public violence against women who wear clothing deemed to be ‘too skimpy’. So what lies behind this urge to determine what women should wear - and also how they should act and who they should desire? This session seeks to understand the politics around women’s right to sexual pleasure, the policy implications of this desire to control women’s bodies and, more importantly, their sexualities, as well as how masculinities are often framed in ways that encourage violence and unhealthy sexual relationships.

Kopano Ratele (Professor at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA) Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (Communications Officer at the African Women’s Development Fund) Zanele Muholi (Photographer and activist) Rudo Chigudu (Feminist activist) Moderator: Jane Bennett (Director of African Gender Institute)

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PLAYING POLITICS WITH GAY RIGHTS In recent years, the issue of homosexuality has caused much controversy on the African political landscape. The UK has indicated that it will withhold development assistance from states that do not respect human rights, including the rights of sexual minorities. The pronouncement has been controversial, sparking fierce debate within the LGBTI sector, dividing activists and raising serious questions about the notion of ‘donor ’driven political agendas even as it supports the overall aims of an emerging movement for the civil rights of homosexuals in Africa. This session seeks to understand the broad responses of key actors to the issue of homosexuality – from donors to heads of states and government – by looking at specific recent examples from Nigeria, Uganda and Malawi.

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Happy Kinyili (Programme Officer UHAI - East African Sexual Health Rights Initiative) Iheoma Obibi (Executive Director, Alliances for Africa) Joel Nana (Executive Director, AMSHeR) Moderator: Phumi Mtetwa (former Director of the Lesbian Gay Equality Project)

CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISMS: CONFRONTING THE BACKLASH The significant gains made by the women’s movement (and in certain countries, the LGBTI movement) have sparked a patriarchal backlash with African ‘traditions’ and fundamentalist religious views being increasingly used to halt – and even reverse – decades of progress. There has been a growing call to move away from certain concepts that are decried as ‘Western’ impositions – but to what extent and for whose benefit? And how do Africans preserve key traditions in a rapidly modernising world, while also enhancing – rather than undermining – women’s rights and livelihoods? When other forms of discrimination (except homophobia) are largely accepted at a normative level, as being unacceptable, why is it that the resistance to the progress of women, and to challenges to male identity, remain so rigid? And what is the best way for women (and other non-traditional minorities) to combat this backlash?

Hauwa Ibrahim (Nigerian human rights lawyer) Binaifer Nowrojee (Executive Director OSIEA) Mark Gevisser (Author and Open Society Fellow) Petina Gappah (Author and lawyer at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law) Moderator: Jessica Horn (Writer and activist)

IN OUR OWN IMAGE: DEFINING AFRICAN-NESS This session looks at popular culture produced by Africans and seeks to understand how Africans are representing themselves through the production of movies – from Nollywood to more intellectual enterprises as well as through the proliferation of music videos, popular magazines and tabloids that celebrate African celebrities and African urban life. As the continent becomes increasingly urban and as access to social media increases exponentially, people’s ability to buy into ‘brand Africa’ also increases. yet development approaches remain static, not recognising the new ways in which young people in particular are seeing themselves and their own mobility (economically, through consumerism, etc.). This session asks whether popular African culture reflects the ‘real Africa’ and looks at whether there is a disconnect between traditional development approaches that seek to ‘develop’ Africans and new ways in which Africans live, love and work.

Zola Maseko (Award-winning film director) Abey Mokgwatsane (CEO Ogilvy, South Africa) Regina Jane Jere-Malanda (Editor of New African Woman magazine) Kobina Graham (Editor of DUST magazine) Moderator: Pumla Gqola (Associate Professor of African literary and gender studies, University of Witwatersrand)

CLOSING PLENARY: CHANGING THE RULES, CHANGING THE GAME AND CHANGING THE FUTURE The final plenary will discuss some of the major game-changers in the past few decades and discuss how to find, fund and facilitate the appearance of new game-changers from young politicians to innovative activists to technological innovators to people forging a new business path.

This session will conclude the OpenForum by outlining ways that the Open Society Foundations can partner with organisations and individuals involved in cutting-edge work and thinking.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Hakima Abbas has been active in struggles for social justice around issues of self-determination, race, class, gender and sexuality for over fifteen years in Africa and the Diaspora. Her professional work as a human rights defender, policy analyst and researcher has focused on Africa and the Middle East. Hakima is currently the Executive Director of Fahamu, a pan-African organization supporting the movement for social justice in Africa by generating knowledge; amplifying Africa-centered voices; and, creating platforms for analysis and debate. She is the editor and author of various publications on a range of issues, including aid and reparations; African LGBTI equality; peacekeeping in North Africa; and, the Diaspora in the African Union. Hakima holds a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Charles Abugre is the Regional Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, based in Nairobi. He was previously the Head of the Global Advocacy and Policy Division of Christian Aid (UK), the Executive Director of the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), Ghana, the African regional coordinator of the Third World Network and a lecturer at the University of Swansea. He is trained as a development economist. He is a Ghanaian by nationality.

educated in Ghana and the US and received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Connecticut. He writes poetry and short stories in his spare time.

Aniket Alam is a historian and journalist based in Hyderabad. He is currently the Senior Assistant Editor for the Economic and Political Weekly. He has previously been a programme officer at the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation and senior correspondent at The Hindu as well as a Research Associate at the International Labour Organisation. He has also worked with the Panos Network. Aniket has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is an avid writer on his blog – Left ~ Write.

Tutu Alicante is a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea. He has worked as a legal consultant with anti-corruption and human rights organisations, promoting legal accountability and transparency in the extractive industry. He is the Executive Director of EG Justice – a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting human rights, the rule of law, transparency and civic participation in Equatorial Guinea.

Akwe Amosu is the OSF Director of Africa Advocacy. For over 20 years she worked as a journalist and radio proDr Akwasi Aidoo is the Executive ducer in leading African and AfricaDirector of TrustAfrica, a foundation targeted media, including the BBC. She dedicated to advancing democratic joined allAfrica.com as its founding executive editor in governance and equitable development 2000, spending four years building the site and leading throughout Africa. Akwasi has extenits news coverage. Before joining OSF in 2006, she sive experience in philanthropy. His previous positions worked for two years as head of communication at the include head of the health and equity programme for UN Economic Commission for Africa. She is a board West and Central Africa at the International Developmember of the International Women’s Media Foundation, ment Research Centre, head of the Ford Foundation’s Trust Africa, Global Voices Online and the AllAfrica office for West Africa, and director of the Ford FoundaFoundation. She grew up in Nigeria and was educated tion’s Special Initiative for Africa. He is the Chair of the there and in the UK. She graduated with honours from boards of Resource Alliance and OSIWA. He also serves the University of Sussex with a B.A. in Social Anthropolon the boards of the Fund for Global Human Rights, ogy and African studies and was the Harry Oppenheimer Global Greengrants Fund, and the International Beliefs fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Afriand Values Institute. Akwasi has taught at universities in can Studies in 1991 where she researched the future of Ghana, Tanzania and the United States. He was post-apartheid broadcasting in South Africa.

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is the co-founder and Publishing Director of Cassava Republic Press – one of the most important new publishing houses in Africa. A feminist and independent scholar, she has worked as a consultant for ActionAid, Unifem, and the European Union. Her life’s work is the transformation of the African continent through the production of alternative narratives and knowledge. She has been chosen for the prestigious Yale World Fellow Program 2012.

Asef Bayat is a professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently an Open Society Fellow.

He is studying unconventional forms of activism ‘from below’, which may have played a major role in bringing about the Arab uprisings. Bayat is the author or editor of ten books, including Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2010).

Previously, he served at the Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam at Leiden University, and taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo. Bayat has also served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report, Middle East Critique and Cairo Papers in Social Science.

Jane Bennett works at the African Gender Institute, as Director, and within the University of Cape Town as the Head of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics. She has strong alliances with a number of local and international NGOs whose missions involve the fight for freedom from colonial and neo-imperialist economic and political frameworks, for gender justice, and for queer agendas. Her own work has a focus on questions of sexuality, violence and the theories/practices of African feminisms. She has published both books and articles, and works as editorial advisor for the journal Feminist Africa. She has also published fiction.

Mrs Fatou Bensouda of the Gambia was elected Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2004.

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Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, rising to the position of Senior Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal Advisory Unit.

Before joining the ICTR, she was the General Manager of a leading commercial bank in The Gambia. Between 1987 and 2000, she was successively Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Solicitor General, then Attorney General and Minister of Justice. Mrs Bensouda also took part in negotiations on the treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West African Parliament and the ECOWAS Tribunal.

Dr Wiebe Boer is Chief Executive Officer of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). His vision is for TEF to be a benchmark for 21st century African philanthropy. Dr Boer is also a director of Mtanga Farms, Tanzania, a member of the advisory board of Digital Divide Data, Kenya, and serves on the board of the African Grantmakers Network. Previously, Dr Boer was associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation, focussing on impact investing, climate change, agricultural development and China’s engagement with Africa. He has also worked with McKinsey & Company, where he helped the Kenya government to develop a long-term economic development strategy, and managed a USAID-funded food aid development project in Mauritania for World Vision. Dr Boer earned his doctorate in history at Yale University and undergraduate degree at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Buddy Buruku is an Engagement Manager, Africa-China Practice at the Africa Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET). She earned an MBA from the Wharton School, a Master’s in Chinese Commerce and Politics from the Johns Hopkins School of Applied and International Studies, and an Undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Haverford College. Prior to Joining ACET, Buddy, a Ugandan national, worked in China with IT Power, a renewable energy and energy efficiency consultancy, where she undertook projects related to the Kyoto Protocol and capacity building in rural electrification.

Rudo Chigudu is a Zimbabwean feminist activist. She is one of the founding members – and currently the Coordinator – of Katswe Sisterhood, which is a movement of dynamic young women

fighting for the full attainment of sexual and reproductive health and rights by women in Zimbabwe.

Staceyann Chin is a fulltime writer and activist. A recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 Power of the Voice Award from the Human Rights Campaign and 2008 Honors from the Lesbian AIDS Project, she identifies as Caribbean and Black, Asian and lesbian, woman and resident of New York City. Chin is the author of the memoir, The Other Side of Paradise, and was the cowriter of, and original performer in, the Tony award winning, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.

A proud Jamaican, Staceyann’s voice was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, where she spoke candidly about her experiences of growing up on the island and the dire consequences of her coming-out there. Her work has featured in numerous publications and anthologies around the world.

H.E. Joaquim Chissano is the former President of the Republic of Mozambique and Chairperson of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation, which aims to promote peace, social and economic development, and culture. He was a founding member of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs at independence. Following the tragic death of President Samora Machel in 1986, Chissano was elected as his successor. He led positive socio-economic reforms and successful peace negotiations with the former rebels. In 1994, he won the first multiparty elections in Mozambique’s history and was re-elected in 1999.

Despite being permitted to do so by the constitution, he voluntarily decided not to stand again. After retiring from office, he was appointed Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2005 Summit to Review the Implementation of the Millennium Declaration, as well as Special Envoy of the UNSG to Guinea-Bissau, the Democratic Republic of Congo and to areas affected by the LRA in Uganda. He was awarded the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in 2007.

Simphiwe Dana is one of South Africa’s most soulful singers, who is renowned around the world and adored for her impressive vocal prowess. She is an artist who employs a true cultural and African identity in her art form. A strong and

impassioned believer in the betterment of the African people, Miss Dana utilises activism to play a role in the restoration and evolution of African culture and its mores.

Zohra Dawood is the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa and the Director of OSI Indonesia. She has degrees in law, in African Government and Administration, and a Master’s Degree in Economic History.

Previously, she worked for a decade as a chief researcher for a land rights organisation at the height of apartheid and then moved into government after 1994. She worked for the Department of Land Affairs and Agriculture, drafting land legislation and working on the settlement of land claims. She also worked for the Department of Defence, drafting their policies on land and environment, and was an advisor to Cabinet Members and the Presidency of Nelson Mandela.

Dr Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for promoting democracy and human rights, especially the rights of women and children. She was the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize. She is the author of The Rights of the Child: A Study of Legal Aspects of Children’s Rights in Iran, published with support from UNICEF, and History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran. In 2006, Random House published her memoir, Iran Awakening, with the young Iranian-American co-author, Azadeh Moaveni. Ebadi represents Reformed Islam and argues for a new interpretation of Islamic law, which is in harmony with vital human rights such as democracy, equality before the law, religious freedom and freedom of speech. As a lawyer, Ebadi has been involved in a number of controversial political cases. As a consequence, she has been imprisoned on numerous occasions. Ebadi earned her law degree from the University of Tehran. From 1975-79 she served as president of the city court of Tehran, one of the first female judges in Iran. After the revolution in 1979, she was forced to resign. Previously a professor at the University of Tehran, she now works as a lawyer.

Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist on Arab and Muslim issues as well a lecturer and researcher on the growing importance of social media in the Arab world. In November 2011, Money, Power & Sex: Speaker biographies

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Egyptian riot police broke her left arm and right hand, and sexually assaulted her and she was detained for 12 hours. Newsweek magazine named her one of its ‘150 Fearless Women of 2012’, while Time magazine featured her along with other activists from around the world as its People of the Year. Before moving to the US in 2000, Ms Eltahawy reported for various media from Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and China.

In 2010, the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded her its Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver gave her its Anvil of Freedom Award. She was born in Port Said, Egypt and calls herself a proud liberal Muslim.

Andrew Feinstein is the author of The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade. As a South African ANC parliamentarian, Feinstein investigated and exposed a massive and corrupt arms deal that implicated top government officials and wrote about the case in a best-selling political memoir After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC. He is currently working on a film of his latest book and is creating a web-based resource on the global arms trade for use by civil society groups, watchdogs, elected representatives, activists and journalists. Feinstein is a founder of Corruption Watch, whose mission is to monitor and expose corporate bribery and its impacts on governance, democracy and development.

Howard French is currently an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an Open Society Fellow. During almost two decades on the road from 1990 to 2008, Howard served as the New York Times bureau chief for West Africa and China - as well as stints in Japan, the Koreas, Central America and the Caribbean. The author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (2004), Howard is now working on a new book – an in-depth, journalistic account of the dramatic increase in Chinese migration to Africa in the past decade.

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is also a trustee of OSISA and the African Forum on Debt and Development based in Harare, and a member of the founding steering committee of the African Grantmakers’ Network. Previously, Neville worked at Oxfam as its southern Africa regional media and advocacy coordinator and at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference. He co-founded the Jubilee 2000 South Africa coalition for debt cancellation as part of the global Jubilee movement.

Petina Gappah is a lawyer and writer whose work has been published in fifteen languages. Her 2009 collection of short stories, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Los Angeles Times First Book Award, the Frank O’Connor Award and Zimbabwe’s National Merit Award. For more than ten years, Petina has worked in Geneva as a lawyer specialising in international trade. As counsel at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law, she has advised developing countries on a wide range of matters relating to trade law and policy. Petina has published widely on globalization, governance, development and the external relations of the European Union. She has law degrees from the Universities of Zimbabwe and Cambridge and a PhD in international law from Graz, Austria.

Anne Gathumbi is a programme manager with OSIEA and oversees the Health and Rights portfolio. Prior to joining OSIEA, Anne worked in Trocaire’s East Africa Regional Office on both human rights and development programmes. She has also worked at the Legal Resources Foundation, where she pioneered a community-based paralegal training programme to enhance justice for poor and marginalised communities. She was also a founding member and National Coordinator of the Coalition on Violence against Women. She holds a law degree from Nairobi University, a Masters in Business Administration and a post graduate diploma in community development.

Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa’s leading authors and journalists, and an Open Society Fellow. He is writing a book that will map the dramatic ways that ideas about sexuality and gender identity are changing globally. He believes that the battle for the rights of sexual minorities delineates a

frontier for human rights discourse today, much as Kobina Graham is the editor of movements for women’s rights and civil rights did in DUST Magazine, a lecturer at Ashesi previous eras. He is particularly interested in the paraUniversity in Ghana, a blogger and a dox between those advocating ‘human rights’ on the one DJ on Ghana’s growing underground hand, and those who defend ‘traditional values’ and ‘cularts scene. Kobina graduated in law tural sovereignty’ on the other. His previous book, Thabo from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UniMbeki: The Dream Deferred won the 2008 Sunday versity of London) and received a Master’s degree in Times Alan Paton Prize. Mark is also a heritage curator International Studies and Diplomacy. and political analyst.

James Goldston is the founding executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. A leading practitioner of international human rights and criminal law, Goldston has litigated several ground-breaking cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations treaty bodies, and served as Coordinator of Prosecutions and Senior Trial Attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC. Previously, he served as legal director of the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Center; director general for Human Rights of the Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; and prosecutor in the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, Goldston has engaged in law reform fieldwork and investigated rights abuses in more than 30 countries. He has taught at Columbia Law School and Central European University.

Yao Graham is the Coordinator of Third World Network-Africa, a panAfrican research and advocacy organization based in Ghana. TWNAfrica works for economic and social equity within Africa and for an equitable place for Africa in the global order, focusing on international trade and investment, extractive resources, gender and economic policy and the role of international financial institutions. Yao has been an activist and writer on African development and global economic justice issues for more than 30 years. He was a member of the International Study Group appointed

by UNECA, which produced the report Minerals and Africa’s Development in 2011. Yao was also the founding editor of the Ghanaian newspaper Public Agenda and is currently the Africa Editor of the Review of African Political Economy. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Warwick, UK.

Jessica Horn is a writer, women’s

rights activist and consultant. She has worked with NGOs, progressive Dr Pumla Gqola is a feminist writer donors, the UN and community-based and associate professor of African literinitiatives around advancing sexual ary and gender studies at the Univerrights, ending violence against women, supporting sity of the Witwatersrand. She has dewomen living with HIV and ensuring women’s rights in grees from the Universities of Cape post-conflict reconstruction and peace building. She Town and Warwick and holds a PhD from the University has also worked as a grant-maker and currently serves of Munich. Her academic publications are in the areas of on the boards of Mama Cash, Urgent Action Fundslave memory, gendered Blackness, African/postcolonial Africa and as an advisor to FRIDA – the Young feminisms, African sexualities and pleasure, postcoloFeminist Fund. Jessica is a founding member of the nial humour, Black Consciousness literature, the African African Feminist Forum, and co-editor of the Our feminist imagination, postcolonial literature and ‘gender Africa platform on Open Democracy. talk’ in post-apartheid South Africa. Her short stories have been published in various collections and literary Dr Khaled Hroub teaches journals in South Africa, UK and USA. Gqola co-edcontemporary Middle East politics ited Discourses of Difference, Discourses on Oppresand history at the Faculty of Asian sion and is the author of What is slavery to me? Postcoloand Middle Eastern Studies, nial/Slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa. She University of Cambridge, where he is is a board member of the Black feminist lesbian NGO, the director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project. He FEW, based in Johannesburg.

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authored Hamas: A Beginners Guide (2006/2010), Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (2000), and edited Political Islam: Context versus Ideology (2011) and Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East (2012). In Arabic, he published Fragility of Ideology and Might of Politics (2010), In Praise of Revolution (2012), Tattoo of Cities (literary collection, 2008) and Enchantress of Poetry (poems, 2008). Currently he is writing a book on a Critique of the Arab Renaissance Project. His academic writings have appeared in numerous journals and his weekly column appears in six Arab dailies.

Hauwa Ibrahim is a senior partner at Aries Law Firm. Working as a lead attorney with a team devoted to the cause of human rights for women in Nigeria, she has won a number of precedent-setting cases before Islamic Shariah courts.

Ibrahim has been a Visiting Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and Stonehill College, a World Fellow at Yale University, a Radcliffe fellow, and a fellow at both the Human Rights Program and the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University.

Her manuscript on Practicing Law in Shariah Courts: Seven Strategies is awaiting publication. The European Parliament presented Ibrahim with its 2005 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Ibrahim earned an LLB and a Master’s in international law and diplomacy from the University of Jos in Nigeria, and a Master’s degree in international studies at the American University’s Washington College of Law. In addition, she has been awarded three honorary doctorates, as well as the Cavaliere Award, the highest human rights award from the Italian government.

Regina Jane Jere-Malanda is a Zambian-born journalist and currently the Editor of the New African Woman magazine – the sisterpublication of the New African magazine of which she is the Deputy Editor.

Previously, she was the Zambian correspondent for AFP and an Africa researcher at Index on Censorship, which monitors media freedom and free speech. She writes extensively on a wide range of issues, from politics to beauty and fashion, women’s rights to media freedom and free speech – and her work has been published in many publications and books, including The Mission: Journalism, Ethics and the World, which was published by the Iowa State University, where it was used in the journalism school’s curriculum.

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Brian Kagoro is the Regional Programme Advisor for the United Nation’s Development Programme’s Africa Governance and Public Administration. He has over fifteen years of experience at national, regional and international levels in various management roles. Kagoro has also performed in these roles within law firms, national civil society organisations, coalitions and international governmental organisations. He has managed teams working on policy issues pertaining to human rights, human security, social justice, development and governance.

Regionally, his work has been in the African Union and its branches of the African Peer Review Mechanism and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development. In 2003, Kagoro was part of the Yale World Fellows Program, which seeks to build emerging global world leaders.

Dr Michel Kazatchkine has announced that he is stepping down as Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria after five years in the post. Dr Kazatchkine has spent the past 25 years fighting AIDS as a leading physician, researcher, administrator, advocate, policy maker and diplomat. Prior to joining the Global Fund, Dr Kazatchkine was Professor of Immunology at Université René Descartes and Head of the Immunology Unit of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris. Dr Kazatchkine has also served as Director of the National Agency for Research on AIDS in France, Chair of the World Health Organization’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV/ AIDS, and as a member of the WHO’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on tuberculosis.

In 2010, Joanna Kerr became CEO of ActionAid International, an NGO with over 2800 staff working in over 40 countries with a mission to end poverty and injustice. Previously, she worked at Oxfam Canada and for seven years she was executive director of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), which she transformed into an international, feminist membership organisation, mobilising almost 7000 people and 200 organisations. She has extensive experience of international governance and strategic links to international networks as well as many years of policy research experience focused on gender and economic reforms, particularly in Africa working with the North-South Institute in Canada.

Femi Kuti is one of Africa’s most renowned musicians. Having spent years playing in his legendary father’s band, Femi created his own group, The Positive Force, in 1985 and by the 1990s he had become an acclaimed artist in his own right. He released his first international album, Shoki Shoki, in 1998 before rubbing shoulders with American peers such as Mos Def on the album Fight To Win. Committed to touring and building the new Shrine in Lagos, it was not until 2008 that he released his next studio album – the widely acclaimed Day By Day. He has been nominated for a number of Grammy awards and won the UK magazine Songlines ‘Artist of the Year’ award as well as performing at the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup. But Femi is an activist as well as an artist and often uses his music to highlight social issues and was named Amnesty’s ‘African Advocate’ for their 50th Anniversary.

Janet Mawiyoo is an East-African sustainable development practitioner and activist. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Community Development Foundation, which seeks to promote sustainable development and empower marginalised groups. Previously she worked in a variety of ministries in the Kenyan government as well as for NORAD and ActionAid International, where she rose to the position of Country Director for Tanzania. She is a senior fellow with the Synergos Institute and sits on the boards of various nonprofits, including TrustAfrica. Janet has a BA from the University of Nairobi and a MA in Economics in Development Administration from the University of Manchester.

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tional advocate for women and children’s rights and has been a social and political activist over many decades. She currently serves in various capacities in several organizations, among them the Elders, the Africa Progress Panel, and the UN Millennium Development Goals Advocates Panel. She is also an Eminent Person of the GAVI Alliance and the UN Foundation, Chair of the Board of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes and Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. She was just appointed President of the London School of Oriental and African Studies. She is the founder and President of the Graca Machel Trust.

is the Professor of African Development at the London School of Economics. He is also the Olof Palme Professor for Peace with the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm. Previously, he was the Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen. He has taught at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe. He has written extensively on development theory, economic policy and development and social policy in developing countries and political economy of development in Africa.

Zola Maseko was born in exile in 1967.

Educated in Swaziland and Tanzania, he joined Umkhonto We Sizwe in 1987.

With the end of apartheid, he moved to the UK, where he graduated from the National Film and Television School in 1994. Moving to South Africa the same year, he wrote The Foreigner, a short fiction film about xenophobia in this country. In 1998, he directed the acclaimed Life and Times of Sarah Baartman, which garnered Best African Documentary at the Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO) and Best Documentary at the Milan African Film Festival. Another short film A Drink in the Passage won the Special Jury Award at FESPACO, while his first feature film Drum took the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga – the first South African to do so.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was South Africa’s Deputy President from 2005-2008 – and was the first woman to hold the post. She had previously served as Minister for Minerals and Energy and Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry. She is the founder and Executive Chairperson of the Umlambo Foundation, which focuses on leadership development and enhanced academic performance and values in schools. Mlambo-Ngcuka is also the founder of a micro-finance institution, Ndiza Finance, and a member of the Global Leaders Council on the MDGs. She is currently completing her PHD at Warwick University, UK focusing on ICTs in Education.

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Abey Mokgwatsane is the CEO of Ogilvy South Africa. When he was at the helm of the VWV Group, Abey won the tender to produce the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2010 World Cup. When employed at SAB, Abey earned three managing director awards for marketing excellence. Abey is also one of the founding members of Young Business for South Africa, a non-profit networking organisation for young professionals. He has also established the Experimental Association of South Africa as well as Think Tank, which is focused on raising the profile of young business leaders. It is of little wonder that Abey Mokgwatsane was listed as one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans.

Sisonke Msimang is the Executive Director of OSISA, having previously served as the organisation’s Programmes Director and HIV/AIDS Programme Manager. Prior to joining OSISA, Sisonke worked for UNAIDS, UNIFEM and the Australian Agency for International Development. Sisonke was chosen as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2012 and was also selected to participate in the prestigious Yale World Fellows Program in 2012. Sisonke holds a Bachelors in Political Science and Communication Studies from the University of Cape Town and a Masters in Social Science in Political Studies from Macalester College in the United States.

Phumi Mtetwa is a South African activist, who was involved from the age of twelve in the freedom struggle. In post-apartheid South Africa, she has focused her energies on linking LGBTI struggles with other social and political justice struggles. She was International Lesbian and Gay Association Co-Secretary General for two years and in 2000, moved to Ecuador, where she was active in social movement processes, including the World Social Forum, the LGBT South-South Dialogue and the Global Network of Social Movements.

Returning to South Africa in 2007, she assumed the Directorship of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project until 2011. Phumi is currently the activist in residence at Fahamu, where she is doing preliminary research on non-conventional entry points for the queer struggle in Africa.

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Deprose Muchena is the Deputy Director of OSISA responsible for programmes. He is the co-editor of Tearing Us Apart: Inequalities in Southern Africa (2011) published by OSISA and the Labour Resource Institute of Namibia.

Previously, he worked as the Democracy and Governance Programme Manager for USAID in Zimbabwe. He has an MA from the University of Zimbabwe in economic history and economics.

Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist. Prior to her photographic journeys into black female sexualities and genders in Africa, she worked as a human/lesbian rights activist in her community. She is the co-founder of the Forum for the Empowerment of Women. Muholi completed an Advanced Photography course at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and studied for her MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University in Toronto. In 2009, she received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for outstanding contributions to the study and advocacy of sexualities in Africa. She was also a Jean-Paul Blachère award-winner at the Rencontres de Bamako, African Photography Biennial and won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer living in Africa. Three books have been published on her work: Only Half the Picture (2006), Faces & Phases (2010) and Zanele Muholi: African Women Photographers #1 (2011).

Tawanda Mutasah is OSF Director of Programmes. He previously served as chair of the OSF Africa Advisory Board and as Executive Director of OSISA. He was admitted to the Bar in Zimbabwe in 1995. An international human rights award winner, Mutasah has previously worked on the international advocacy staff of Oxfam Great Britain, among other roles.

Jay Naidoo is the Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the founder of the social development arm of the J&J Group. Jay serves in an advisory capacity for a number of organisations including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum. Previously, he served as the Chairperson of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and as Deputy Chair of the ‘Love Life’ organisation dedicated to

combating HIV/AIDS. Under the Presidency of Nelson Mandela, Jay served as the Minister responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Programme in the Office of the President before becoming the Communications Minister. Jay was the founding General Secretary of COSATU and was the recipient of the Chevailer de la Légion d’Honneur, one of France’s highest decorations.

Joel Nana is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience on HIV/ AIDS interventions and human rights advocacy at national and international levels, especially as they relate to LGBTI people. Nana’s experience spans several African countries including Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa in addition to his native Cameroon. Nana currently works as the Executive Director of the African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR ) – a coalition of 25 African LGBT/MSM organizations based in 20 countries, which was established to address the human rights of LGBTI people and access to HIV services for men who have sex with men. Nana is a holder of an LLM (Masters) in International Human Rights Law from the University of the Western Cape and is currently pursuing a PhD in sociological studies.

Aryeh Neier is president of the Open Society Foundations. Prior to joining OSF in 1993, he served for 12 years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, of which he was a founder in 1978. Before that, he worked for 15 years at the American Civil Liberties Union. He served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University for more than a dozen years and has also taught at Georgetown University Law School and the University of Siena (Italy). The author of seven books, including his most recent, Taking Liberties (2003), Neier has also contributed chapters to more than 20 books and published more than 200 op-ed articles in leading newspapers. He is the recipient of six honorary degrees and numerous awards from such organizations as the American Bar Association, the Swedish Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Binaifer Nowrojee is the Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA). Prior to joining OSIEA, she worked for 11 years as legal counsel with the Women’s

Rights and Africa Divisions of Human Rights Watch.

Before that, she served as a staff attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Nowrojee has investigated and reported on human rights abuses throughout the African continent and is the author of a number of reports and articles on these issues. She is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School. Nowrojee graduated with a master’s in law from Harvard Law School.

Cedric Ntumba wears a multitude of hats including private equity executive, chairman of the South African Ballet Theatre, Archbishop Tutu Leadership and Crans Montana Fellow, chartered account, student pilot and budding photographer. He works as a Deal Executive at Capitalworks Investment Partners and is a member of TED’s Johannesburg Chapter, the African Leadership Network and the University of Oxford Business Alumni Network. He was invited to share his perspectives on youth, business and leadership at the G-20 Summit in France and the Wharton Business School in the US. Along with his wife, he co-founded the pre-primary schools brand The Little Ashford Preschools. He holds qualifications in Finance and Accountancy from the University of Johannesburg and a joint Fellowship from the African Leadership Institute and the University of Oxford.

Iheoma Obibi is Executive Director of Alliances for Africa and is a lifelong African feminist. She has previously worked as a consultant for UNESCO gender unit, the British Council and several other international agencies. She has a BA Hons in African Women and Development (NELP, UK) and a Master’s with Distinction in Communications Policy Studies (City University, UK). She is an Ashoka Fellow and enjoys writing short stories.

Ory Okolloh is Google’s Policy Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa. She is a co-founder of Ushahidi and served as the organisation’s Executive Director from inception until December 2010.

Ory is also the co-founder of Mazalendo, a website that tracks the performance of Kenyan Members of Parliament. Ory graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and with a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She was previously a summer associate in Covington and Money, Power & Sex: Speaker biographies

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Burling, Washington DC and a Chayes Fellow at the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity.

Ory is a frequent speaker at conferences including TED, World Economic Forum, Poptech, CGI, Techonomy, Mobile Web Africa and the Monaco Media Forum on issues around citizen journalism, the role of technology in Africa, and the role of young people in reshaping the future of Africa.

Professor Adebayo Olukoshi is Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP). He is a Professor of International Economic Relations with a PhD in political science from Leeds University. Until March 2009, he was Executive Secretary of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He also previously served as Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos, Senior Research Fellow/Research Programme Coordinator of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, and Senior Programme Staff at the South Centre in Geneva.

Joanna Oyediran is the OSIEA Sudan Programme Manager, responsible for leading programming in Sudan and South Sudan. She previously served as a Senior Human Rights Officer in UN peacekeeping in Darfur. She has also worked as a researcher in the Middle East Programme of Amnesty International and in the Palestinian human rights NGO, Al-Haq. Liepollo Lebihang Pheko is a policy analyst, lecturer, social activist and development practitioner and has worked in the public and development sectors for twenty years. Pheko serves as Executive Director at a progressive research and advocacy think tank called the Trade Collective.

Pheko writes a monthly online column and has contributed to books entitled From Slave Trade to Free Trade, Gender and Politics and Mobilising Social Justice in South Africa. Pheko is also a member of the Association of Women in Development, the board of the Business Women’s Association, the steering committee of South African Women in Dialogue and the steering committee of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution.

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Dr Mamphela Ramphele is the founder of Citizens Movement for Social Change (CMfSC), which aims to take South Africans on a journey from subjects to citizens. She was a leading activist in the Black Consciousness Movement and is the author of several books and publications on socio-economic issues in South Africa. She is the chair of Gold Fields Limited and the Technology & Innovation Agency of South Africa. She was formerly co-chair of the Global Commission on International Migration, a World Bank managing director and vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town. She has received numerous national and international awards, including honorary doctorates.

Ramphele qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Natal. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from UCT, a B.Com degree in Administration from the University of South Africa and post graduate diplomas in Tropical Health and Hygiene, and Public Health from the University of Witwatersrand.

Kopano Ratele is a professor at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa and co-director of the MRC-UNISA Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit.

Best known for his work on men and masculinity, his list of publications includes the co-edited book, From boys to men: Social construction of masculinities in contemporary society and Inter-group relations: South African perspectives. His latest co-authored book is There was this Goat. Ratele is also editor of African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention, head of the South African World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Intentional Injury and Violence Prevention, vice-chair of the board of Sonke Gender Justice Network and past president of the Psychological Society of South Africa.

Yara Sallam is the Women Human Rights Defenders Programme manager at Nazra for Feminist Studies (Egypt) – the first programme in Egypt that focuses on women human rights defenders. Yara previously worked as a professional legal assistant at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as a researcher on Freedom of Religion and Belief at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and as a research assistant at the Institute of Research for Development focusing on women’s rights in Egypt.

Yara earned two law degrees – a Licence of Law from

Cairo University and Maîtrise of Commercial Law from Paris I University Pantheon Sorbonne. She was also awarded a Master of Laws degree in International Human Rights Law at the Law School of Notre Dame University in the US.

eL Seed grew up in France and started spray-painting in late 1990s. Born to Tunisian parents, he continues to foster strong ties to his motherland.

Moving to North America, eL Seed’s interests in calligraphy and graffiti collided and fused together. Developing on the tradition of the first Arabic calligraphers, eL Seed chooses to paint a message rather than his name; his calligraphic compositions bringing to life what is otherwise perceived as an ‘old’ or ‘dead’ civilization. His work, taking inspiration from the past to encourage hope for the future, has been displayed in streets, galleries and museums around the world and featured in many international publications.

Nana Sekyiamah is Communications Officer at the African Women’s Development Fund and curates ‘Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women’, a highly acclaimed and widely read blog on African women and sexuality. Nana has authored a Communications Handbook for Women’s Rights Organisations, is co-author of Creating Spaces and Amplifying Voices: The First Ten Years of the African Women’s Development Fund, and editor of the forthcoming book, Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women. In March 2011, Nana was recognized by Arise magazine as one of Ghana’s Change Makers. Nana is a graduate of the University of North London with a BSc (Hons) in Communications and Cultural Studies and holds a MSc in Gender and Development from the London School of Economics.

Zandi Sherman is currently reading for an MA in Global Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. As a graduate with honours in Gender and Transformation from the African Gender Institute, her particular research interests are the intersections of sexual rights and racial identity. She is currently doing a research internship focused on women’s multiple narratives and experiences of their sexualities. She has been involved in student organising and outreach with a focus on LGBTI advocacy work.

Clare Short is the Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Board. Ms Short was the UK Secretary of State for International Development (1997-2003).

She was the first person to hold this position and played a key role in elevating the UK’s profile and budget for sustainable development and poverty elimination. In 2003, Ms Short resigned as Secretary of State over the Iraq war. The following year, she wrote An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power. After nearly thirty years as a Member of Parliament, Ms Short stood down in 2010. Since 2006, Ms Short has been a member of the Advocacy Panel of Cities Alliance – an alliance of the World Bank, UN-HABITAT, local government and development partners committed to meeting the UN target to develop cities without slums. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa and a Trustee of Africa Humanitarian Action.

Theo Sowa is an independent advisor and consultant, specialising in international social development with an emphasis on children’s rights and protection issues. She is currently the interim CEO of the African Women’s Development Fund. Born in Ghana, her work includes advisory roles to African and other international women and children’s rights activists and leaders, plus policy development and advocacy with a variety of international agencies and organisations. Theo is a board member of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Graca Machel Trust; Chair of Comic Relief’s International Grants Committee; a member of the African Advisory Board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation and the British Refugee Council’s Leadership Board; and a Patron of Evidence for Development. Theo also holds a public appointment as a Board Member of the Charity Commission for England and Wales. She was awarded a CBE in June 2010.

Chris Stone is the incoming President of the Open Society Foundations, effective July 2012. He has served since 2005 as the Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Stone is an international expert on criminal justice reform and on the leadership and governance of non-profits. Stone received his AB from Harvard, an Money, Power & Sex: Speaker biographies

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MPhil in criminology from the University of Cambridge, and his JD from Yale Law School. He was awarded an honorary Order of the British Empire for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom.

Abdul Tejan-Cole is the regional director for Africa at the Open Society Foundations. Prior to his appointment, he served as Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone from December 2007 through April 2010. His previous positions include Attorney in the Special Court for Sierra Leone; Deputy Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice’s Cape Town Office; and President of the Sierra Leone Bar Association.

Binyavanga Wainaina is a Kenyan writer and the founding editor of Kwani Trust. He is also the director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College and is responsible for Pilgrimages, which is an Achebe Center project and one of the most ambitious literary projects out of Africa in recent times. Binyavanga’s recent memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place, has been described as a ‘delightful and important coming of age book that describes Wainaina’s world with riotous clarity and shimmering brilliance’.

L. Muthoni Wanyeki is a political scientist who works on development communications, gender and human rights. She was formerly Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. Previously, she worked for seven years as the Executive Director of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network, a pan-African membership organisation working towards women’s development, equality and other human rights through advocacy, training, gender mainstreaming and communications. She is currently doing graduate studies at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and writes a weekly column for the East African newspaper. She serves on the Board of the Open Society Justice Initiative as well as an advisor to AfriMAP. 32

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Professor Pang Zhongying is a Professor of International Relations, School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China.

Dr Siphamandla Zondi has been the director of the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) since January 2009.

He received his BA and Higher Diploma in Education from the former University of Durban-Westville before graduating with MPhil and DPhil in African Studies at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he headed the IGD’s programme on African studies and SA Foreign Policy Analysis for five years. Between 2000 and 2004, he co-ordinated the Africa Institute of South Africa’s regional integration and sustainable development programmes. Dr Zondi has published widely and his recent writings have covered the SADC mediation in Zimbabwe, the future direction of SA’s foreign policy, and Africa’s health governance. Dr Zondi is a regular media commentator and writes a weekly political column for The Witness newspaper.

The Open Society Foundation for South Africa’s strategy is to support and engage in activities that focus on the delivery of a needed service. In doing so it has decided it will act in a limited number of priority areas and with projects which will initiate change and produce demonstrable results within two years; seek major ventures or fresh ideas that would not see the light of day without the resources and assistance of the Foundation; and, seek to act in co-ordination and cooperation with other organisations and funding agencies to ensure that resources are optimally used. The Foundation will seek to ensure that in its work all projects should have an ongoing institution-building impact; an emphasis on sustainability; and, a mutually reinforcing impact wherever possible.

The Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa promotes public participation in democratic governance, the rule of law, and respect for human rights by awarding grants, developing programmes, and bringing together diverse civil society leaders and groups. Based in Nairobi, with an office in Uganda, the initiative supports work in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sudan as well as regional organizations whose mandate encompasses eastern Africa. OSIEA’s work takes place in a region where democratic gains are simultaneously being made and reversed and its key goal is to amplify the voices of Eastern Africans to call for accountability from their governments. The initiative supports local and regional groups working to advance democratic governance and public accountability, challenge corruption, strengthen free media, and end stigma and abuse directed at marginalized groups, such as ethnic minorities, people affected by HIV, sexual minorities, and drug users.

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa is dedicated to the creation of open societies in West Africa. OSIWA seeks to promote inclusive democratic governance, transparent and accountable institutions and active citizenship in West Africa. OSIWA’s long term vision of West Africa reveals a prospering region where open society values prevail. We envision a West Africa that is more integrated and where democracy thrives – a region where people enjoy basic freedoms, everyone can participate meaningfully in civic and political life, inequalities and inequities are minimized, exclusion gives way to greater appreciation for pluralism, and governments are accountable and corruption is on the wane.

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a growing African institution committed to deepening democracy, protecting human rights and enhancing good governance in southern Africa. OSISA’s vision is to promote and sustain the ideals, values, institutions and practice of open society, with the aim of establishing a vibrant southern African society in which people, free from material and other deprivation, understand their rights and responsibilities and participate democratically in all spheres of life.

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