Politics
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Ain Siro: A Taste of Normality
It is a rule of thumb among experienced relief workers that when a community builds and operates a school, it is a sign of ... -
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem on Darfur
In tribute to the late Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, Pan-Africanist committed to the liberation of Africa from all forms of oppression, we reprint three of ... -
In Memoriam: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the most irrepressible Pan Africanist of his generation, died in Nairobi on 25 May 2009. His friends and colleagues are stunned at ... -
In Memoriam: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the most irrepressible Pan Africanist of his generation, died in Nairobi on 24 May 2009. His friends and colleagues are stunned ... -
Sudanese Politics of Exhaustion
At a meeting in al Fashir last week, a civil society spokesman said, “˜we are tired, we have had enough.’ Sudanese civil and political ... -
Mamdani Responds to His Critics III
In this final section of what has been a three-part response, I would like to address three issues. The first concerns that of the ... -
R2P in Theory and Politics (3)
The third and final part of my review of Gareth Evans’ The Responsibility to Protect. Risk of Perverse Incentives My qualms about R2P are ... -
R2P in Theory and Politics (2)
Part 2 of my review of Gareth Evans’ The Responsibility to Protect. The Risk of Unrealistic Expectations The subtitle of Evans’ book is: “Ending ... -
R2P in Theory and Politics (1)
Recently, Gareth Evans, President of ICG and the architect of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P), accosted me and argued that I had misrepresented the ... -
Is the Darfur Advocacy Community’s “Raison d’íªtre to be Sought in the War on Terror”? No.
My aim in this piece is to focus on Mamdani’s major thesis, examining several of his supporting arguments in turn. I will thus try ...