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In the News: Condemning Slave Auctions of African Migrants in Libya / Actualités: Condamner la vente aux enchères de migrants Africains en Libye
Translation by Awa Cheikh / Introduction by Angela Okune
While slavery is imagined to be reserved to history books, shocking recent coverage by CNN exposed a horrifying present-day […]
“The Market of Pain: Corruption and Fetishized Altruism in International Aid”
By: Emeizmi Mandagi, University of California – Irvine
The University of California’s Global Peace and Conflict Studies Colloquium Series recently hosted UC Irvine’s Visiting Researcher Dr. Maria D. Bermudez on November […]
Complementary role of traditional institutions to nation building in Ghana
By: Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Participatory Development Associates, Accra
Prior to colonial rule in many sub-Saharan African countries, traditional political systems were the primary political authority that enjoyed enormous legitimacy among the […]
“Let’s Question Written History”
By: Edwin Adjei, University of Ghana – Legon
History has a way of speaking the mind of a group of people, especially the mind of the powerful. Like many books that […]
Critiquing Dualism in Christianity through Eco-feminist Lenses: Lessons from Wangari Muta Maathai: Part I
By Albert Billy Bangirana, University of KwaZulu-Natal
This is the second post in a three-part series reflecting on the sacredness of the earth. In this post and the subsequent one (to […]
2017 Wittenberg Memorial Lecture: “Earth Theology in Context: Celebrating the Power of the Local”
By Albert Billy Bangirana, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ecological activism has been part of critical humanitarian discourse for some time now. Religious institutions in particular have voiced their concerns on the worrying […]