Perspectives on Politics, Health, Food Security and Land Rights
Discussion of the often-intersecting issues of politics, health, access to food, agriculture, land rights, and climate change.
Petition: Gandhi’s Statue at the University of Ghana Must Come Down
Dear CIHA Blog Readers,
We draw your attention to a petition at the University of Ghana that has gone viral, to bring down a recently-erected statue of Gandhi (the only statue […]
The Situation in Gabon: Interference That Knows No End / Situation au Gabon: Ingérence Sans Fin
by Cilas Kemedjio
The post-electoral situation in Gabon demonstrates how the troubled role of the self-proclaimed guarantors of the new international order can set fire to powder. Such interference […]
Phantom Aid versus Internal Resource Mobilization in Tanzania
by Israel Laizer[i]
Controversies about effectiveness of aid go back to some decades (Radelet, 2006). Scholars such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Nicholas Stern hold that […]
Data from South Africa Reconciliation Barometer: Political Violence an Option to a Quarter of South Africans
Almost half of South Africans feel out of touch with key representative institutions, while two thirds believe that their elected leaders do not really care about their plight. This is […]