Contemporary approaches to the legacy of colonialism tend to narrowly emphasize political agency as the solution to Africa’s problems. But agency is configured through historically particular relations of which we are not sole authors.
In his new book, the Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani argues that breaking cycles of violence requires collective action. He finds hope in the unfinished project of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle.
Mahmood Mamdani’s new book asks how communities that have been enemies can heal. But does it succeed?
George Clooney and John Prendergast's simple story about African conflict breeds ineffective solutions.
Revisiting the Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal book, "Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism."
Because the (South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission) focused on perpetrators and overlooked the beneficiaries of
Reagan is celebrated as a world statesman and champion of democracy, but this not how many outside the US experienced his time in office.
If we could ask our readers (and critics, and everyone else) to pick Africa's most insightful intellectual, who would they pick?
More than a year later these lines–written by journalist Eamon Kircher-Allen as part of the reaction