Book Review: Virgin of Flames
Maximum City: Chris Abani’s Virgin of Flames
By David Platzer
African narratives in the west, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves…The […]
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Debating Aid and the African Renaissance
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009). New York: Basic Civitas Books.
Reflections on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill
By David John Frank
Last year, MP David Bahati introduced a bill before the Ugandan Parliament that would elevate and establish penalties for a wide array of homosexual offences. The […]
Tackling election violence
One of the many issues that African NGOs are tackling is election violence — bringing different sides together to prevent it as well as analyzing what happens after the fact. […]
Haitian Earthquake Relief
Here is a link to a list of several agencies that are providing earthquake relief to Haiti. If you wish to recommend an organization that is not on this […]
“Piracy” in the Gulf of Aden: Profit, Media, and Superpower Redemption?
Part I: Pirates in the Gulf of Aden: “The enemies of mankind?”
by Isaac Kamola
The impoverished Somali teenager, wearing a waterproof jumpsuit, was handcuffed and chained at the […]
“Piracy” in the Gulf of Aden: Profit, Media, and Superpower Redemption?
Part II: A Movie Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon: Pirates Of the Somali Coast and the Curse Of the Failed African State
By Tekle Woldemikael
On April 8, […]
The Double-Edged Gift: Sifting Through the Electronics Morass and Toxic Waste in Africa
By Dele Ogunseitan
“The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depend on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount […]