In the News: “Reductive Seduction” in Creating Meaning from Others’ Lives
One of the issues that The CIHA Blog contends with is the problematic argument that people are just trying to “do good,” that their motives are genuine, that any problem […]
Images of Africans and Westerners
Critical Reflections on European Migration Policy vis-à-vis North Africa
by Sokfa John
In this piece, Sokfa John argues that the November 2015 Valletta summit is problematic because it requires African leaders to help Europe in its anti-migration agenda. John also […]
In the News: A Deeper Understanding of African Migrants
by Kajsa Hallberg Adu
In the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis that is seeing thousands of families desperate to enter Europe, the issue of African migrants to Europe has also resurfaced. […]
“Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of”…. Band-Aid 2014’s “Crumbs from Your Table”*
by Cecelia Lynch
Have we learned nothing?! Thirty years ago, the Band-Aid video showed pop stars with 1980s hair raising funds for “Africa.” But it wasn’t for Africa, even though the […]
In the News: New Research on the African Diaspora
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 […]