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Introducing New CIHA Blog Co-Editor, Hekima’s Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula – Part I
Interview conducted by Angela Okune
It is with great pleasure that we introduce our newest Blog Partner, The Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR) under Hekima […]
Partner Update: Ujamaa Centre September 2017 Newsletter
By: Hanna Wapenaar, Ujamaa Centre
This latest newsletter from CIHA Blog partner, the Ujamaa Centre, shares information about our multiple recent activities, and also draws attention to our upcoming events. […]
Upcoming Opportunities: October 2017
We’d like to bring to your attention to several exciting calls for application/nomination with upcoming October deadlines. For more details and the full listing of many more interesting opportunities, please check out the Opportunities […]
Benue’s floods and the case for better disaster giving infrastructure
In this post, Titilope F. Ajayi from the University of Ghana discusses the well-intended response by Nigerians to alleviate the suffering caused by flooding in Nigeria’s Benue State. She echoes […]
Nullification of Kenya’s Presidential Election: A Wake-up Call for Africa (and the World!)
By: Michael Ochieng’ Otieno, SJ, Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR)
In July 2009, on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa after taking office, President Barack Obama visited […]
“Responsible Research”: Reducing Risk or Improving Well-being?
By Angela Okune
A recent workshop held in South Africa convened two unlikely groups: San* groups in South Africa and sex workers in Nairobi. What do these two seemingly unrelated […]
Track Changes: Jeffrey Gettleman’s “Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ in Africa” #NYTWeShouldTalk
By: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Now that Jeffrey Gettleman has published a memoir about his tenure as the New York Times’s East Africa correspondent that is widely viewed […]
“The New York Times shows how to fail miserably while writing about Africa”
By: Angela Okune
For the second post in this week’s series looking at problematic reporting of Africa, we repost part of a recent piece by Karen Attiah, The Washington Post’s Global […]