Monthly Archives: February 2013
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Kenya between hope and despair. Again – By Daniel Branch
Many Kenyans will go to the polls on 4 March with a sense of trepidation. Three of the four elections since 1992 have been accompanied by ... -
Framing news in Africa – how journalists approach stories and reinforce stereotypes – By Keith Somerville
Having worked as a journalist for 33 years and having taught journalism and analysed the processes and performance of journalism for the last five, it is ... -
Darfur before: technologies, symbolism and multiple identities
Over the last 50 years several interconnected crises (ecological, economic, and political) have been building up in Darfur, culminating with atrocities of killing, rape, and population ... -
Kenya: Revisiting Joel Barkan’s Possibility of a Requiem – By Leonerd Wanyama
The Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) recently posted on its website a Contingency Planning Memorandum on Electoral Violence in Kenya. The document seems to have gained ... -
Kenya transfixed by its illiberal and rightwing gang of eight – By Daniel Waweru
It’s often said that Kenya’s political parties lack any ideological underpinning. The recent pair of Presidential debates shows this false. The discussion of economic policy at ... -
This time the Kenyan presidential election could have been about issues – By Andrew Green
Since multi-party democracy returned to Kenya in 1992, voting at election time has largely divided itself along ethnic lines. In 2007, when President Mwai Kibaki narrowly ... -
What Space for African Eyes? Travel Writing and Africa in the 21st century – By Fatimah Kelleher
Centuries old, travel writing has been instrumental in crafting perceptions of the world we live in; journeying authors have wielded significant influence over immobile audiences who ... -
The Africa Business Briefing Feb 2013: Instability in North Africa/It’s the economy, Zuma! – By Desné Masie
Q1 | January 2013 | February 2013 Desné Masie This is the first edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which will be published ... -
Chad Hosts Wanted Al-Bashir as Cí´te d’Ivoire Joins ICC – By Stephen Lamoney
As Cí´te d’Ivoire takes a major step towards ensuring accountability for grave crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Chad is once again failing to ... -
Ethnic politics on the Zimbabwean campaign trail: do voters really care? – By Marko Phiri
Since independence in 1980, there appears to have been an ingrained political psyche peculiar to Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland region, where the political landscape has been painted in ethnic colours. ...
