“Back then, when the boats came, people used to run. Now we’d get on gladly,…
Tag: Europe
Brave new world
In Pakistani writer Moshin Hamid’s prescient new novel, Exit West, two young lovers confront a…
Marxism and Islam in Africa
This excerpt below is from an interview with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, a Senegalese philosopher who is…
Europe’s refugee colonialism
In August 2015 when Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel declared an open-door policy for Syrian refugees…
Making Europe White… Again
Zygmunt Bauman, the renowned Polish sociologist, calls them the emergent precariat. Shaken by the false…
Anti-racism without race
Earlier this summer in Fermo, Italy, 36-year old Nigerian asylum seeker Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi was…
Why is the US defending the honor of the International Criminal Court?
Two weeks ago, Uganda’s President Museveni inaugurated his fourth decade in power. And as strange…
Why did French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira resign?
Last week, France’s Minister of Justice, Christine Taubira (known for introducing the 2013 same-sex marriage…
They herded us into the aircraft like cattle (also known as #TravelWhileAfrican)
I thought I’d become immune to the indignities of traveling with an African passport, but…
The world already had a refugee crisis
On December 16, 2015 Jordanian police stormed a makeshift camp of Sudanese refugees located in…