The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
A new report from The Oakland Institute details how the World Bank’s desire measure the “ease of doing business” can cause “many developing-country leaders to deregulate their economies in hopes […]
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The interview with William Easterly in Christianity Today raises important issues around morality, aid, and the rights of people who are supposed to benefit from aid. While Easterly has […]
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The anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, which was signed by President Museveni on February 24, may have implications for aid, given that Uganda receives over $400 million annually in funding for […]
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Talal Asad, writing in Critical Inquiry, raises complicated questions about humanity, morality, Enlightenment, law and politics. He asks, in part, “What gives the modern project called ‘humanitarianism’ its moral […]
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by Akosua Adomako Ampofo
If most private foundations (in the US) have endowments of less than $50m, indeed more like $10m, and most, despite this, ‘give’ more than the legally-required minimum […]
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A conference at the University of California, Irvine, titled “Liberated Africans and Digital Humanities: African Diaspora Reconsidered,” was held in early October, organized around themes of slavery, freedom, race, and […]
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has released its 2014 Gates Annual Letter, which spells out the foundation’s view of “three myths that block progress for the poor”: poor […]
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