Monthly Archives: December 2011
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Frantz Fanon’s Afterlife: On the 50th Anniversary of His Death – By Michael Keating
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique. He joined the Free French Army and fought in Europe during World War II. After the war he studied ... -
DR Congo: The International Community Must Not Turn Their Backs On Democracy – By William Townsend, Free Fair DRC
Last week, the Supreme Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo upheld the result of what was by all accounts a deeply flawed election, marred by ... -
Food Crisis in the Sahel – a region in need of long term solutions – By Celeste Hicks
Just two years after the Sahel faced a major food crisis, leaving an estimated seven million people in need of food aid in Niger and Chad, ... -
BBC Analysis: DR Congo elections open new wounds – By Theodore Trefon
African Arguments writer Theodore Trefon has a new analysis piece on the BBC website: Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila’s victory in the 28 November ... -
Obama and Africa: an African second term? – By Richard Dowden
Despite his African heritage Barack Obama appears to have done little for his father’s continent in his first term as US president. He could not match ... -
African Election Map 2011 – 2012 – By Simon Freemantle, Standard Bank
Africa’s political plates are shifting. In concert with economic gains realised over the course of the past decade in particular, and the concomitant rise in a ... -
Northwest Africa kidnap claims by new groups suggest growing competition for ransoms – By Exclusive Analysis
In December 2011 two new groups claimed responsibility for kidnaps in northwest Africa. On 7 December, the Mauritanian ANI news agency said it had received a ... -
‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’ and the making of Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureate – By Robtel Neajai Pailey
In 2009 I screened the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell in Monrovia, Liberia, with a group of Liberian women “” young and old “” ... -
African sovereign wealth funds prospects – by Jolyon Ford, Oxford Analytica.
For sub-Saharan governments one largely unmentioned reaction to the fall of Libya’s Colonel Qadhafi earlier this year was their surprise at the scale of the country’s ... -
“If Somalia fails, it will fail like a Catherine Wheel” – in conversation with Jonathan Ledgard, author of ‘Submergence’ – By Magnus Taylor
“I’ve given up on being negative – there are too many things to save, and too many important things to do,” says Jonathan Ledgard – a ...
