Globalization from below in wax print fabrics
Globalization is often portrayed as something that is imposed on people in Africa, not as a process which they can seek to mediate or even actively participate in. Nina Sylvanus has a piece on...
View ArticleSnapshots of non-state power in Africa
I haven’t properly written up my observations from last year’s African Studies Association meeting yet. In reviewing my notes, I found that one of the themes that cut across the various panels I...
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Edible art from 57 Chocolate in Ghana South Sudan’s leaders are being blamed for deliberately orchestrating the country’s famine. Other African countries affected by famine, including Nigeria and...
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Here’s the latest edition of my Africa Update newsletter. We’ve got Mali’s 35-year old foreign minister, the dodgeball association of South Sudan, accountability for Mozambican mayors over gay rights,...
View ArticleWhat I’m reading for December 2018
Cross-posted from my Africa Update newsletter. We’ve got positive masculinity in Mali, the triple-taxed business owners of Somalia, a bridge on the River Congo, the perils of not participating in the...
View ArticleAfrica Update for January 2019
Here’s my latest link round-up from Africa Update. We’ve got Angolan goat delivery apps, contraception compromises in Rwanda, a deep dive on the Congolese election, postdocs for African physicists,...
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