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What are strategies for challenging corrupt networks from both the apartheid period and the present day in South Africa? (June 1) What are alternative coordination models to a centralized, […]
May 2017
Track Changes: Recognizing and Amplifying the Politics of Famine
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) […]
Biafra: humanitarianism in the house of France’s neo-colonial Empire
By Cilas Kemedjio
As part of our on-going series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Biafra/Nigerian War, in a provocative piece by CIHA Blog co-editor, Cilas Kemedjio asks: “What if […]
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on “The Trial of Dedan Kimathi” and Decolonizing the Mind
By Angela Okune
On April 28, 2017, our friend and colleague, Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spoke to an intimate group at the University of California, Irvine. Structured as a […]
Endorsing War Criminals
In this piece first published in From the Thornveld, University of KwaZulu-Natal scholar Christopher Merrett condemns what he terms as “one of post-apartheid South Africa’s greater scandals” where instead of […]
Decolonizing the Story of Humanitarianism: The Case of the Biafra War
By Cilas Kemedjio
On May 30, 1967, Lieutenant-colonel Chukwumeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the South Eastern Region’s military governor, proclaimed the Republic of Biafra at a champagne party in the city of Ennugu, […]
“Culture” in Aidland: A Talk by Prof. Mark Schuller
By: Angela Okune
The University of California Irvine’s International Studies Public Forum recently hosted Professor Mark Schuller