Yearly Archives: 2014
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Lagos: from stilt slums to emerging megacity – By Alkasim Abdulkadir
Lagos bustles with abundant energy not simply from dawn not until dusk, but to another dawn again – the cycle never breaks and its residents love ... -
Rwanda and South Africa should not sever relations over Nyamwasa/Karegeya row – Frederick Golooba-Mutebi
Rwanda and South Africa are once again caught up in a diplomatic row. This erupted following reports of an attack by a group of armed men ... -
Is it time for a more serious response to Boko Haram? – R. Bennett Furlow
The conflict between radical Islamists and the government of Nigeria is little noted in the United States compared with the attention paid to that in Somalia, ... -
Congo Masquerade
About the Author Theodore Trefon (PhD Boston University) is a Congo expert specializing in the politics of state-society relations. He has devoted the past 25 years to ... -
Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong
About the Author Morten Jerven teaches at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Poor Numbers: ... -
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill: looking beyond a single explanation – By Kristof Titeca
Last Friday, a wealthier primary school in the suburbs of Kampala had a special occasion during their Friday Assembly (in which students hold performances): the P2 ... -
How did the DRC become the ICC’s Pandora’s Box? – By Thijs B. Bouwknegt
This Friday, Germain Katanga has the ambiguous honour of receiving the third ever judgement from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It comes a decade after Joseph ... -
Back to the Middle Ages? Response to Thabo Mbeki and Mahmood Mamdani’s op-ed: “Court’s Can’t End Civil Wars” – Anonymous
True, courts can’t end civil wars, but international criminal courts were created to make sure that certain forms of extreme violence are outlawed and that the ... -
Is Yoweri Museveni still the West’s Man in Africa? – By Angelo Izama
Heavily armed members of Uganda’s elite anti-terrorism police stand guard along the neatly manicured perimeter of the US Embassy in Kampala. Occasionally they shout commands and ... -
Gay Africa: casualty of a different power struggle – By Richard Dowden
Uganda’s war over homosexuality threatens to spread to other African countries and has further damaged the increasingly strained relationship between Africa and Western donors. For the ...
