Nakedness, for dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, is something akin to a state of absolute truth.
June 2005's Issue
This month the NI goes to Kenya in the company of nurse Nancy Wambui Thuku, one of the three million health workers from the Majority World who are currently staffing the rich world’s hospitals and nursing homes. She shows us why she decided to leave her homeland to work abroad and what effect this has on her and her family. She shows us what the money she sends home can do in a country beset by poverty, unemployment and AIDS. But she also ponders the effect on her country of losing key health workers by the thousand. Most debates on immigration focus on migrants at the point at which they enter countries of the richer world. `Should they be let in?’ Under what conditions should they be allowed to remain?’ Are the skills they bring the ones the host country needs?’ In this issue of NI we approach it the other way round, retracing Nancy’s steps back to sub-Saharan Africa, and to the heart of the story.
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Featured in issue 379
I Am A Bird Now
As an androgynous performance artist who sprang out of New York’s club scene, Antony (he lost the surname a long time ago) may seem an unlikely pretender to the tones of Nina Simone, the British-born singer is making an excellent go of it.
- Louise Gray
- 1 Jun 2005
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Machuca
In Santiago, Chile, 1973, during the Allende Government, an élite fee-paying secondary school, run by priests, offers free education to boys from a nearby shanty town. The priests’ initiative, opposed by many parents, brings together very different worlds
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Venezuela
SPEAKING to a crowd draped in red, Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, entertains his faithful supporters with songs, witty banter and anti-US rhetoric during his weekly live television and radio address called Alo Presidente (Hello, Mr President).
- Anastasia Moloney
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
The bushfires of affluence
Jeremy Seabrook uncovers his own roots in a now-lost industrial culture to track how the world has been dazzled and damaged by consumerism.
- Jeremy Seabrook
- 1 Jun 2005
- 1
Interview with Dave Logie from Greenpeace Amazonas
‘It’s the Wild West,’ says Dave Logie, of Greenpeace Amazonas, talking about the dangers of confronting loggers and ranchers who are clearing the rainforest.
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism
A package of hard numbers encased in simple statements is all it takes in David Lester’s The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism to make a powerful agit-prop tool out of a small book. Like an unrelenting Michael Moore in print, the type is crudely designed to make
- Elizabeth Eve
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Bolivia's next challenge to globalization
Presidency hangs in the balance as the country refuses to knuckle under to Big Oil
- Jim Shultz
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Hell no, they won't go!
After the extraordinary intervention of students from a Glasgow high school, the deportation of a family of asylum seekers from Scotland to Kosovo was put on hold.
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Honduras trade protests
On 3 March 2005, the Honduran Congress ratified the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with the US, becoming the second country after El Salvador to do so.
- Paul Di Stefano
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
The Vietnamese declare war on Agent Orange
This April marked the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Yet the war is not over for an estimated two million Vietnamese whose exposure to Agent Orange (the nickname of a dioxin-laced herbicide) has been scientifically linked to a series of di
- Tom Fawthorp
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
The long goodbye
After years of self-censoring silence, Reem Haddad says goodbye to the Syrians.
- Reem Haddad
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
What is to be done?
Brain-drain. Racism. Exploitation. Poverty. Inequality. Charting a path through the healthcare minefield.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
We are sorry... We stole your daughter
Nancy helps repair a tradition that was damaged in her absence.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
If... migrant workers left the rich world what would happen?
There are 86 million economically active migrant and immigrant workers, including refugees, in the world today. Nearly half of them are working in North America and Europe.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
The Kikuyu cradle
A journey through the country’s troubled past to visit Nancy’s 90-year-old mother.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Acute Phase
Hospital visits reveal the brain-drain of nurses and a deepening crisis in Africa’s health provision. Who is to blame?
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Itinerary
Kenya Profile Population: 33.5 million Total area: 582,646 square kilometres Life expectancy: 44 years
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Introduction
Introducing nurse Nancy Wambui Itotia, her dilemma – and her country’s. Vanessa Baird reports.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Hope FM
To Kenya with Nancy to see what she has left behind – and the effect that the money she sends home has on her family.
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
The Neocons
George W Bush goes for broke with his neocon appointees to the World Bank, the UN and UNICEF.
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
100 Myths About the Middle East
100 Myths About the Middle East by Fred Halliday
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
Arindam Mukherjee
The heartbreak of a woman from Tamil Nadu, India, who lost her granddaughter to the tsunami, photographed by Arindam Mukherjee.
- Arindam Mukherjee
- 1 Jun 2005
- 0
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