Open Letter from a Peace Corp Volunteer
In our series on “What People Who Want to ‘Help Africa’ Should Know,” we highlight both problematic and helpful examples of humanitarianism in Africa. In this post, we repost […]
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Global Politics of Race: #KenyaDecides & #Charlottesville
By: Angela Okune
As Kenyans went into highly anticipated elections last week, many on social media penned humorous, sarcastic and sometimes angry Tweets pushing back against the common trope of […]
The Many Faces of Lament: A Response to Emmanuel Katongole’s “Born from Lament”
Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, recently published his […]
Débat: Répondre ou non aux représentations problematiques des Africains de la part des leaders français?
Par: Awa Cheikh Seck
Les propos du président français Emmanuel Macron, sur les «défis civilisationels» de l’Afrique ont fait couler beaucoup de salive et d’encre. Sur les réseaux sociaux par exemple […]
Upcoming Opportunities: August 2017
We would like to officially launch our newly upgraded “Opportunities” section of the site after improving its interface for readers to better track the currently available opportunities. There are […]
2017 Kenyan Elections: Not ethnicity, religion, or money but legitimacy and confidence in institutions will decide the future of democracy
By: Toussaint Kafarhire Murhala, Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR)
Kenyans are preparing to go to the polls tomorrow. In an opinion piece recently published in The Conversation,
AfroBubblegum: African Sci-fi offers alternatives to “Hopeless Africa” narrative
By Angela Okune
At CIHA Blog, we recently highlighted how African cinema is serving as a key avenue through which important critiques of humanitarianism are being made. Continuing the conversation, […]