Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Firoze Manji and Patrick Burnett -- About the contributors -- Trade, investment and the international institutions -- Plugging the leaks - the role of debt, aid and trade Charles Abugre -- For life or profit? GATS and the externalisation of Africa's resources Oduor Ongwen -- Preserving disorder - IMF policies and Kenya's healthcare crisis Soren Ambrose -- The new scramble for Africa's resources Henning Melber -- China in Africa Stephen Marks -- South Africa's Coega complex - cheap energy for industry Patrick Bond -- Lessons from the slave trade -- A story of the Atlantic slave trade Manu Herbstein -- Slavery ain't dead, it's manufactured in Liberia's rubber Robtel Neajai Pailey -- Trade, justice and the case for reparations M.P. Giyose -- Women and trade -- What do women want? Pambazuka News -- World trade liberalisation in Africa - why women are most affected by poverty Cheikh Tidiane Dièye -- Trade, gender and the search for alternatives - trade liberalisation and social development Jennifer Chiriga -- Women and globalisation - the impact on their health Mouhamadou Tidiane Kasse -- What do women stand to gain from trade? - women in business and commerce Salma Maoulidi -- Street vendors and informal trading - the struggle for the right to trade Winnie Mitullah -- Friend or foe - the EPAs unmasked Liepollo Lebohang Pheko -- Trade, environment and agriculture -- Trade and human rights in the Niger Delta Nnimmo Bassey -- Community rights and foreign direct investment in Kenya's Yala Swamp Patrick Ochieng -- Trading food rights and GM crops Interview with Mariam Mayet -- International trade (in)justice or the survival of the fattest - the effects of agricultural subsidies Tope Akinwande -- Sacrificing the right to food on the altar of free trade Jagjit Plahe.

Europe - the 'promised land' for Africa's unemployed Tope Akinwande -- Cocoa trade and children -- Quick facts on trade -- The fight for water in Ghana -- Export processing zones in Kenya -- Soweto fights for electricity -- Stop economic partnership agreements -- Kenya: women workers turn to flower power -- Facts and figures: women's rights and trade -- Toxic waste in Africa -- Back Cover.