Hanno Brankamp, Author at African Arguments

Author: Hanno Brankamp

Hanno Brankamp

Hanno Brankamp is a PhD student at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He has carried out long-term ethnographic research on security and policing in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.

Editor's Picks Kenya Society

By Hanno Brankamp
June 12, 2018
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TEDx comes to the refugee camp (aka Think Your Way out of Oppression!)

Rebranding refugees as entrepreneurs and camps as places of opportunity shows the boundless cynicism of neoliberal humanitarianism. On 9 June, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) co-hosted ...

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Politics Tanzania

By Hanno Brankamp
November 30, 2015
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#WhatWouldMagufuliDo sparks new bout of Tanzaphilia

A few weeks into his presidency, John Magufuli’s moves towards free education, anti-corruption and belt-tightening are already recalling memories of Julius Nyerere. In 1967, professor Ali Mazrui opened the ...

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