Society
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African manufacturing its own hardware: BRCK internet in a box [Haller Prize 3rd place]
This entry was awarded 3rd place in the 2016 Haller Prize for Development Journalism. In the third annual edition of the competition, professional and amateur journalists from across ... -
As thousands flee South Sudan every day, donors must shell out more than just hollow promises
In Uganda, transit centres are massively over-crowded and rations are thinly stretched. Moreover, unless more support is provided, things will only get worse as ... -
How to put the ‘African’ back into African Studies
From 1993 to 2013, the proportion of articles written by Africa-based scholars plummeted in two leading journals. Why? Earlier this year, a new piece of ... -
Review: Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour – by Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano
European leaders conflating human traffickers and human smugglers is not just inaccurate. It speaks to the ignorance and/or deliberate manipulation of facts at the ... -
Claims of “China’s Afrophobia” show we need new ways to think about race and racism
Racism in the West and racism in China are not the same thing. Is Afrophobia really on the rise in China? Roughly two months ... -
The role of the “secret police” in Zimbabwe’s deepening poaching crisis
There are many reasons poaching in Zimbabwe is on the rise. The involvement of influential government operatives appears to be one of them. On 24 ... -
South Sudan: The UN’s deafening silence over its jailed journalist
George Livio of the UN’s Radio Miraya has been in jail with no charges for almost two years. Why has UNMISS never publicly called ... -
Decolonising Makerere: On Mamdani’s failed experiment
At the “Harvard of Africa” in Uganda, power remains in imperial structures and bodies, while excellence is still defined on Western terms. In 1922, within a few ... -
Where is the ‘African’ in African Studies?
We need to put the ‘African’ in African Studies, not as a token gesture, but as an affirmation that Africans have always produced knowledge about ... -
Between a rock and a hard place: Gambians tackle Fortress Europe
The number of Gambians seeking asylum in Europe nearly quintupled between 2012 and 2014. The fact that most are turned away as ‘economic migrants’ speaks to ...
