Yearly Archives: 2014
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Ethnic militias and the shrinking state: South Sudan’s dangerous path – By James Copnall
Maban county, Upper Nile state, South Sudan, August 2014 Until early August, Maban county was mostly famous for the misery of others. Nearly 130,000 Sudanese refugees ... -
Ebola – what West Africa could learn from Uganda – By Richard Dowden
The Ebola plague in West Africa is worrying. It is the largest and most extensive outbreak since the disease was first identified in 1976. That was ... -
Critique of US-Zambia relations highlight’s country’s unsettling slide – By Arthur Simuchoba
The feistiest criticism of the current state of Zambia-US relations came in a statement by the Zambia-based NGO, Coalition for the Defence of Democratic Rights (CDDR) ... -
US-Africa Summit: Obama’s tough love well overdue – By Hank Cohen
During the three-month preparatory period prior to the US-Africa summit there was much skepticism among Africa watchers in Washington. The basis for the sentiment was the ... -
What hope for an extended ceasefire in the CAR? – By Hanna Ucko Neill
The signing of a ceasefire on 23 July between the CAR’s Seleka rebels and anti-Balaka fighters raised some hopes of a political solution after more than ... -
BZS Research Day 2014: Politics, Culture & Identity in Zimbabwe – By Diana Jeater
On 21st June 2014, the Britain Zimbabwe Society annual research day at St Antony’s College in Oxford focused on the theme of “˜Politics, Culture & Identity ... -
How To Be A Great African Writer – By Elsie Eyakuze
There is an argument out there that the category ‘African Writer’ should not exist because it creates a ghetto in which people get incarcerated by accident ... -
Can artist campaigns help reunite the centre and the periphery in Sudan? – By Reem Abbas
In the 1990s, as the war continued to escalate in Southern Sudan, Northern Sudanese activists arrived in conflict-affected areas in what was called a “˜peace convoy’. ... -
REVIEW – Another Man’s War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain’s Forgotten African Army – By Keith Somerville
On 11th November 1987, I was walking past Independence Square in Accra after yet another trek out to Osu Castle to try to arrange an interview ... -
Ebola in Liberia: Anatomy of a Politicized Response – By Richard Akum
In March, 2014, I set out to explore the relationship between borderland livelihood dynamics and state-building in post-war Liberia. I was working from the premise that ...
