Voices from Africa: Meet the Authors
African Centre for Biosafety, South Africa
Suite 3, 12 Clamart Road, Richmond, South Africa, 2092
Tel/Fax: 27 (0) 11-482-8915
Mariam Mayet is the Director of the African Centre for Biosafety,
a research and policy non-profit organization campaigning
against GMOs, biopiracy, agofruels, and industrial
agriculture in South Africa.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a political columnist for the BBC Focus
on Africa. He is also the author of a collection of poems, Hurling
Words at Consciousness (AWP, 2006).
BioWatch, South Africa
PO Box 13477, Mowbray, 7705
Tel: 27 (0) 21-447-5939
Fax: 27 (0) 21-447-5974
David Fig is an independent environmental policy analyst
based in Johannesburg, and a trustee of Biowatch South Africa.
Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali (CNOP), Mali
Kalaban coura, Rue 200, Porte 727, BP.E:2169,
Bamako, Mali
Tel: (223) 20-28-68-00
Ibrahima Coulibaly is the President of the Coordination Nationale
des Organisation Paysannes du Mali (CNOP), a federation
of farmers’ organizations that is also a member of
the Via Campesina and ROPPA. CNOP’s members include
the Association des Organisations Professionnelles Paysannes
(AOPP), which represents more than 1 million families, as
well as many other farmers’ groups and associations.
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria>
214 Uselo Lagos Road, Benin City, Nigeria
Tel: 234-52-880619
Nnimmo Bassey is the Executive Director of Environmental
Rights Action in Nigeria, a non-governmental advocacy
organization founded to deal with environmental human
rights issues in Nigeria. ERA is the Nigerian chapter of
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the world environmental
justice federation campaigning to protect the
environment and to create sustainable societies.
Katleho Moho Association (KMA ), Lesotho
PO Box 246, Semonkong 120, Maseru 100, Lesotho, Southern Africa
Tel: 266-2231-1241
Mobile: 266-5803-3683
Fax: 266-2231-1241
Makhathe Moahloli is the Executive Director and the National
Coordinator of the Katleho Moho Association (KMA)
in Lesotho, a community-based organization that focuses on
improving livelihoods through health initiatives and agricultural
development.
Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM), Kenya
Independence Avenue, Lusaka, Zambia, 10101
Tel: 260211257115
Fax: 260211257116
Zachary Makanya works for the PELUM (Participatory Ecological
Land Use Management) Association, a regional network
of over 200 civil society organizations in east, central,
and southern Africa, which is working towards sustainable
agriculture, food security, and sustainable community development
in the region. PELUM helps to build the capacity
of member organizations to work with small-scale farmers
to improve their livelihoods through ecological land use and
management. PELUM is also involved in campaigning, advocacy,
and lobbying on policies and issues that affect the livelihoods
of small-scale farmers.
SAFeAGE, South Africa
PO Box 358, Woodstock, 7915, South Africa
Tel: 27 (0) 21-447-8445
Fax: 27 (0) 866-899902
Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment
(SWAGEN), Uganda
PO Box 12223, Kampala, Uganda, E. Africa
Tel: 000-25677-685332
Fax: 000-25641-220117
Gertrude Kenyangi Kabusimbi is the Executive Director of
Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN),
based in Kampala, Uganda. SWAGEN works to simultaneously
to reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity through
initiatives and partnerships with the forest-edge community
and other national partners.
União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC), Mozambique
Rua Valentim Siti Nº 39 R/C, Caixa Postal Nº 1.016,
Maputo, Moçambique
Tel: 258 (21) 30-67-37
Mobile: (82) 30-01-875
Fax: 258 (21) 30-67-38
Trained as a lawyer, Diamantino Nhampossa is the Executive Coordinator of the União Nacional de Camponeses (UNAC― National Peasants Union) in Mozambique and a member of the Via Campesina’s International Coordinating Committee for the Africa Region.