International Affairs
What #FreeJacobZuma Exposed Jacob Zuma and the Undoing of South Africa
Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma had a presidency coloured by a messy personal life and corruption charges. Read more. Read More...
From Well-Worn Fatigues to Well-Tailored Suits Joseph Garba’s ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’
In ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’, the late General Joseph Garba, one of Nigeria’s earliest foreign ministers, presents a case for the tacit but present ‘Big Brother’ role that Nigeria has sought to play across Africa. Read more. Read More...
Japá Young Nigerians’ Search for Prosperity and Its Effect on Political Participation in Nigeria
For many young Nigerians, relocating abroad with little or no intent to return has become a life goal. Read more. Read More...
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ‘Sozaboy’ What War Literature Teaches Us About the Political Economy of Violence
Through ‘Sozaboy’, Ken Saro-Wiwa explores how war on the African continent has come to function as a central aspect of political economy in the neoliberal world. Read more. Read More...
Traditions and Trust Medical Ethics in the African Context
Most Nigerians don't have health insurance, and medical services in Nigeria are notoriously underserved. So how do the country's poorest people get healthcare? Read more. Read More...
The Enduring Life of Exploitation On Modern Slavery in Africa
In the contemporary moment, we are becoming increasingly aware of how the many structural, social, political and economic inequities that underpin exploitation in all its guises have been deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more. Read More...
When ‘Modern Slavery’ Meant Colonial Rule Nigeria and Panya (Fernando Po) in the 1960s
The colonial history of Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea and south-eastern Nigeria makes it clear that the new techniques of ‘modern slavery’ varied from deception and entrapment of unsuspecting migrants to harshly enforced debt bondage and penal sanctions for non-fulfilment of contracts. Read more. Read More...
Africa in Perspective Migration, Mobility and Modern Slavery in Africa
The ongoing economic crises in Africa and the ease in mobility occasioned by free movement policies and protocols have made Africans increasingly vulnerable to migration, therefore, allowing different forms of modern slavery to thrive. Read more. Read More...
Decolonizing Human Trafficking Alternative Approaches to Understanding Modern Slavery
Acknowledging that most countries with the highest trafficking rates are former colonies opens up new ways of understanding and potentially eradicating human trafficking. Read more. Read More...
The New Mobility Apartheid? The Case for Vaccine Cosmopolitanism
Vaccine passports without vaccine harmonization would tear the entire world apart and suspend the human right―the right of free movement―of the world’s poorest people. Read more. Read More...
