South Africa: dying for change In early 2012, Ayanda Kota, leader of the Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM)…
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Namibia: apartheid-era tactics By Frederico Links In April 2018, Namibia’s Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) attempted to block the publication of…
Malawi: the rural vote In Malawi, May is usually a cold month. The cold weather is at times coupled with…
Post-colonial theory: the strong arm of identity I have always been mistrustful of the rhetoric on decolonisation. Our difficulty…
Book review By Yunus Momoniat Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal book, published in 1996, represented an important turning point in African Studies.…
Africa: migration The lived experiences of migrants in Africa tell stories of isolationism and segregation within host countries Africa’s long…
South Sudan: a brutal war The concerns of the political elite revolve around ‘political budgets’ and the price of loyalty…
Uganda: xenophobia abounds Third and fourth generation Ugandan Indians contribute to the economy but are seen as unwelcome outsiders Indians,…
Togo: one-man rule Decades of family rule in this West African country have resulted in very little development Ethnicity has…
South Africa: inclusive versus exclusive politics Jacob Zuma’s narrow Zulu nationalism stands in the way of the development of an…
