African Arguments
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When Justice and Judicial Proceedings Part Ways
Reading Adam Smith’s book now, after the intense debates around the ICC’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir, provokes a deep sadness at ... -
What Does the Abyei Ruling Mean for the Missiriya?
Due to the Court of Arbitration decision in The Hague, around 1460 square kilometers which were inhabited by two clans of the Missiriya tribe ... -
Human Rights Reporting on Darfur: A Genre that Redefines Tragedy (3)
Human Rights Reporting as the First Draft of the Indictment Journalism has been described as the “first draft of history.” By the same token, ... -
Human Rights Reporting on Darfur: A Genre that Redefines Tragedy (2)
Activist and Apologist: Contrasts and Parallels This section uses techniques of textual and discourse analysis to examine two leading books on the Darfur crisis, ... -
Misconceptions I – The ICC and the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC)
The Kenyan Cabinet recently resolved to put forward the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) as a way to address the post-election violence. In ... -
Kenya: A radical proposal to deal with our prejudices
The truth about the beliefs and perceptions of the majority of Kenyans is not to be found in erudite forums and debates such as ... -
Human Rights Reporting on Darfur: A Genre that Redefines Tragedy (1)
The headline was, “A Tragedy Straight out of Shakespeare,†and the opening lines gripped my imagination and emotion. A student of literature wonders how ... -
What Price Justice?
Ask an international human rights lawyer and the director of a human rights organization, and they will tell you that justice has no price. ... -
The Legacy and Consequences of the Crimes of (Afro) Stalinism
While previously in the genocide debate it has been stressed that the ultimate Nazi crime is that of the Shoah of European Jewry and ... -
Recalling Ethiopia’s Wars: The Rage of Numbers
The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is often called the world’s most deadly since Korea. Perhaps if the long liberation wars in ...