The existing order of things
As the South African ruling class wages a protracted war against the poor and working class, it grows comfortable with the idea that people have more or less accepted the status quo.
land
Should sleeping giants lie?
Colonial land grievances and the politics of redistribution in contemporary Kenya.
Palm oil production, good or bad for Africa?
Unsustainable palm oil industry practices—the result of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) across Africa's tropical belt—have resulted in a number of social and environmental concerns.
Cape Town’s Inner Ugly
Patricia De Lille, one of South Africa's most popular post-apartheid politicians, claims she tried to redress spatial apartheid in Cape Town, but the legacy of her seven year run as mayor is one of violent forced removals and a refusal to upgrade informal settlements.
The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.
My New York Times column about Cape Town
The author wrote a column about racial and class inequalities in the city where he lived. The usual backlash by those in power followed.
Women and rural gentrification in Ethiopia
Ethiopia forcibly relocates rural populations, often at gunpoint and never with any consultation, so the land can become "more productive."
Dances with Samburu
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
The Land Question
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGkJsR7-HY] The Guardian’s John Vidal reports from Ethiopia’s remote Gambella region where in the last 10
A ticking time bomb
Will the slow pace of land reform in South Africa, be the undoing of the ANC government?