November 18, 2013
Aidan Hartley’s Africa
In Aidan Hartley’s Africa, the progress of the continent is measured by its hospitability to white people and animals. Hartley was a war correspondent turned Wild Life columnist for The (British) Spectator magazine. A white Kenyan, he was born in 1965 and raised in East Africa for a time before moving to England for about a decade. He returned to Kenya as a Reuters war journalist, apparently hoping that by finding “a war that I could call my own,” he would find a place he belonged.
September 28, 2013
What are the “unintended consequences of Dutch colonialism”?
July 12, 2013
Eating Nando’s in Gaborone
May 13, 2013
Did Britain’s MI6 have Patrice Lumumba murdered?
February 14, 2013
Africa is a Board Game
April 30, 2012
The Adventures of Tintin in a Belgian Court
Jogchum Vrielink, in this guest post, writes about the attempt by a Congolese student to obtain a ban on the comic book ‘Tintin in the Congo.’ A Brussels court rejected their claims. Despite this outcome, the reasoning of the court jeopardizes free speech, argues Vrielink, a postdoctoral researcher on discrimination law at Belgium’s University of Leuven. As regards the applicants: ‘offensive as the comic may be, their recourse to the law is both misdirected and counterproductive.’
April 30, 2012
The geo-branding war
February 28, 2012
Reverse Colonization
December 23, 2011
The Hall of Shame
December 5, 2011