Waiting to be local
The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.
The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.
For all the good press, the majority of German society are uncomfortable with people who frame their demands from a postcolonial perspective.
There's little doubt that Chinese and Arab interests are procuring land in Africa, but a careful review of the evidence suggests also point to local buyers.
Humanitarian images have obscured the causes and political complexities of disasters, and undermined the agency of their victims—both symbolically and practically.
The Mathare Social Justice Center's activists work to shake off the menacing insults of forced evictions, tenure insecurity, police violence and increasing precarity.
Writing from afar plus writing with sun glasses that are heavily tainted with ideology is dangerous.
Israel's promotion of itself as a technologically-advanced "white savior" on an aid mission to poor black nations, is a marketing ploy to cover the occupation.
That's not a compliment. It is about how development institutions are financing land grabs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Here's two: Cultivate solidarity, not pity. And, showing suffering should be specific. Study up.
Germany’s military shift represents the country’s belated entry into a “colonial present.“
Side-eyeing the UN for abusing its privilege and wasting financial resources on business class flights, and then secretly coveting becoming part of the UN.
What a very white book launch in a very black neighborhood in downtown Johannesburg reveals.
Teju Cole wrote that a white saviour is someone who, “supports brutal policies in the morning,
Will the new African Centers for Disease Control really be an African CDC?
One in three girls aged 15 to 19 in Sierra Leone has been pregnant or had a child at least once.
The AU seeks an increased role in emergencies like the Ebola crisis in West and Central Africa and the civil war in South Sudan.
One critical problem of the new combined agenda of agencies like the UN or World Bank is that their goals lack a clear rationale on what they'll accomplish and how.
If market-focused empowerment becomes the norm in development, who will want to learn about politics or find out why their countries are poor in the first place?
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
The Rusty Radiator Awards is not a critique of existing power relations and stark global inequalities, but of representation.