International Affairs
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...
Myths and Truths Jomo Kenyatta's Hollow Legacy
Jomo Kenyatta may be remembered as a prominent Kenyan nationalist and a leader of the Kenyan independence movement. However, his actual contributions to Kenya's independence fail to live up to his legacy. Read more. Read More...
Pan-Africanism in Foreign Policy African Organizations as Pan-African Agents in the ‘New Scramble’
The proliferation of economic summits and partnerships and the opportunities they bring, present an opportunity for Africa to reassert its agency, as well as redefine and reapply pan-Africanism. Read more. Read More...
Transcending Economics Racism and Anti-Racism in the Modern World
To address racism, we must transcend economics and seek avenues through which different groups can interact under conditions of mutual interdependence and equality. Read more. Read More...
Lessons in Mutualism 50 Years of Sino-Nigerian Relations
After 50 years of formal diplomatic relations, what should Nigerians look out for in Sino-Nigerian relations going forward? Read more. Read More...
The Case for Colonial Reparations My Guka and Me: Reflections of a Personal Colonial Experience in Kenya
Colonialism and its machinations created physical, social and mental wounds, across Africa, that have lasted generations. Read more. Read More...
Lessons of Discord The Repressive Dimensions of Pan-African Nationalism
Pan-Africanist political organization in the 1950s and 1960s played a mutually reinforcing role in driving the advocacy that ended both colonial rule in Africa and legal racial discrimination in the American South. Read more. Read More...
