The singing of national anthems is an intrinsic part of international and professional sporting events around the world.…
Tag: violence
Anti-racism without race
Earlier this summer in Fermo, Italy, 36-year old Nigerian asylum seeker Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi was beaten to death by Ita…
Peace deployed as a weapon in Angola
On April 16th, Angolan security forces, including a heavily armed rapid intervention police unit, raided a religious enc…
Violent Legacies: How Gang Violence in El Salvador Grew (Helped by the U.S.)
This past March, the murder rate in El Salvador soared to levels not seen in a decade. In just one month, some 481 peopl…
Mozambique: How serious is Renamo’s pro-war rhetoric?
On October 4th, the peace accord between the opposition Renamo and the party in power, Frelimo, signed after more than a…
That TIME story that South Africa may outlaw spanking at home
On 30 July TIME Magazine reported that South Africa’s government, in cooperation with some notable children’s rights NGO…
Egyptian Graffiti and Gender Politics: An Interview with Soraya Morayef
Mickey Mouse is pulling apart a bomb: inside is the torso of George W. Bush, and they’re both looking perfectly happy ab…
The Western Journalist in Africa
In 1982, as the air force-led coup attempt in Kenya unfolded, we sat glued to our transistor radio listening to the BBC …
TIME and the media’s culture of confirmation bias
Within hours of Adam Lanza shooting dead 20 Sandy Hook Elementary first-graders and seven adults, including his own moth…
Why is South Africa such a violent society
Post by Palesa Mazamisa* The heinous, brutal rape and subsequent slaughtering of Anene Booysen in South Africa’s W…