Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) Forum 2020
The UCLA African Studies Center and the Earth Rights Institute invite you to Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) Forum 2020. The inaugural forum will expand an integrated vision of […]
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Extreme Variability: the importance of increasing climate change research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary:
Droughts and famine in Africa, are often discussed as humanitarian, political and economic issues. While important not to obscure the role of political economy, African policy makers […]
In the News: Climate Change and the Slave Trade
“What climate change and slave trade in Africa have in common,” by Kofi Adu Domfeh in Luv News, looks at similarities between climate change and the slave trade in […]
Track Changes: Perpetuating Legacies of Racism in Medical Experimentation on Africa
By Elham Kazemi, CIHA Editorial Assistant and PhD Candidate, University of California, Irvine
Today’s post delves further into the video that was aired on LCI (La Chaîne Info) in April […]
Why Climate-Informed Development Should be a Priority During the 2018 UN General Assembly
We thank Denis Kongere, Policy and Advocacy Specialist on Humanitarian and Development in East and Central Africa, for contributing this call to action during the UN’s annual General Assembly meeting in […]
Track Changes: Jeffrey Gettleman’s “Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ in Africa” #NYTWeShouldTalk
By: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Now that Jeffrey Gettleman has published a memoir about his tenure as the New York Times’s East Africa correspondent that is widely viewed […]
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) […]
Track Changes: What daughters are worth
The Los Angeles Times published an article in July by Robyn Dixon – Child brides sold for cows: The price of being a girl in South Sudan – that […]