In the News: Fighting Ebola in West Africa
For about four months, the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia have been facing the worst-ever epidemic of Ebola in the capital cities as well as rural […]
In the News
The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
In the News: African Migrants in the Middle East and North Africa
In an article written for Pambazuka Magazine and republished on AllAfrica.com, Kelsey Norman writes about how African migrants in the two regions are treated is determined by a number […]
In the News: West African Drug Policy Proposal
A blog post written on the Peace & Collaborative Development Network site titled “Bold West African drug policy proposal should be taken up, and taken further” describes a new […]
In the News: The rights of sexual minorities – Africa in the spotlight
Jane Nishimwe, in her article, ‘Uganda: Away with unnatural, unafrican and ungodly beasts of the forest’, published in Jambonews.net, offers a critical analysis of the recently enacted law against […]
In the News: Archives of the Non-Racial
The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism and the University of California Humanities Research Institute are presenting a series of lectures 29 June – 1 July and streaming them […]
In the News: On the concluded elections in South Africa
It’s now the third day after South Africans cast their national and provincial vote, and the hype and the expectations from all Parties are high. Though some may argue for […]
In the News: Aid Satire and Aid Tourism
Two recent opinion articles in Al Jazeera America explore two aspects of aid to the African continent, one potentially the flip side of the other.
The first, “When NGOs attack!“ […]
In the News: An Expression of Agency
“Kibera: Hope and human dignity rising in the slums of Africa,” published in the Daily Maverick, is an expression of the agency from the grassroots – a subversion of […]
In the News: International NGOs at Risk?
Is funding bypassing NGOs from the U.S. and Europe and going directly to organizations based in the Global South? This is one of the theories described in a Guardian […]