Book Review: Virgin of Flames 2
Maximum City: Chris Abani’s Virgin of Flames
By David Platzer 2
African narratives in the west, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about […]
Connections: Present and Past
Debating Aid and the African Renaissance test
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009). New York: Basic Civitas Books.
Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa launches its blog 2
The two posts below start off our blog, which both accompanies and transcends our conference (at UCI on January 16 and 17, 2009) on “Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in […]
Wherefore Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa?
Cecelia Lynch
Kibera, the Nairobi neighborhood usually called a slum that is home to between 600,000 and one million people (depending on who is counting, how, and […]
The Humanitarian Misunderstanding: Fragmented States and the Privatization of Imperialism tt
Cilas Kemedjio
In the wake of massive starvations in Ethiopia two decades ago, singers from around the world came together to protest […]