The bargaining power of African states
One of the main challenge for the continent remain: there is a lack of consensus in terms of African strategies towards India, the US, or China.
Continental
A short history of helping far-off peoples
Humanitarian images have obscured the causes and political complexities of disasters, and undermined the agency of their victims — both symbolically and practically.
Like a bad joke
Israel's arms exports to African countries has more than doubled in the last four years: African countries spent $223m on Israeli arms in 2013 compared to $107m in 2012.
Why I’m not an Afropolitan
The problem with Afropolitism is that the insights on race, modernity and identity appear to be increasingly sidelined in sacrifice to consumerism above all else.
A certain Israeli psyche
Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
Summer in Paris
In what may be the last in a while of my posts highlighting the latest in French music culture, here's a list of tunes for the northern summer.
Uptown Sahel
Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.
Undocumented Spanish News
Spanish media is skittish about reporting their country's discriminatory immigration policy. If they do, they mainly cover its positive exceptions.
Documenting Tuberculosis
In 2009, 1.7 million people died from TB globally, including 380,000 people living with HIV. The majority of deaths were in Africa.
All of the party
A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.