Yearly Archives: 2009
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Mamdani on Darfur: Apologetic?
Mahmood Mamdani makes many interesting and persuasive points, but he does nonetheless take a strong position that seems a bit like an apologetic. At the level ... -
Challenging the Western Approach to Advocacy
Having oscillated between exhilaration and despair in my experience with humanitarianism, finding a middle ground (what I call a “˜critical-hope’ position) has been and continues to ... -
Questions of Perspective
From a distance, a mountain range can appear as an undifferentiated mass””a sheer wall in which the foothills and the peaks cannot be distinguished. For the ... -
Liberia Clings to Failed Strategy to Reduce Poverty
ECOWAS adopted its Vision 2020 in June, 2007, it is intended to replace an ECOWAS of States with an ECOWAS of Peoples. Or, as Sekou Toure ... -
Sudan: Elections and Freedom of Expression
For a free and fair election there is strong need for creating a conducive environment. We are only nine months away from the election date and ... -
Prof. Mamdani and Darfur: Some Comments on the Land Issue
Professor Mamdani in his Saviors and Survivors. Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror (NY: Pantheon Books, 2009) has written a powerful attack on the Save ... -
Mamdani Misrepresents the Armed Movements
Prof. Mamdani accuses the Save Darfur campaign of being deliberately ignorant. But I read his book realising that he didn’t do his homework properly either. For ... -
What Does Darfur Have To Do With The “War On Terror”?
A renowned scholar and commentator on African affairs and U.S. foreign policy, Mahmood Mamdani’s views have attracted considerable criticism from across the political spectrum. In particular, ... -
Darfur: Capacity Restored, Memory Deleted
US Senator John Kerry reports that due to Khartoum’s decision to “engage in a new dialogue with us, some of that capacity for humanitarian assistance will ... -
Mamdani and the Uses of Darfur
I can’t comment on Mahmood Mamdani without first confessing to my bias. I’m a fan. His Citizen and Subject is a signal book in African studies. ...