International Affairs Archives

Digging for Gold: Personal Experiences from Zimbabwe

Digging for Gold in Zimbabwe

Marie-Simone KaduriraAugust 11, 2024

During Zimbabwe’s economic turmoil of the late 2000s, my sister and I navigated a land defined by scarcity and resilience as we experienced the collapse of Zimbabwe’s economy, our community and our family.

August/September 2024Best of 2024: EssaysZimbabwe

To Bear Time: On Sudan’s Long Endurance

Joshua Segun-LeanAugust 4, 2024

The war in Sudan has displaced millions and cast a shadow over the country’s future. Against these odds, the spirit of popular struggle endures in ‘minor’, indeterminate scales of social and political action.

August/September 2024Sudan

Angola Wants a Pan-African Court of Justice

Rui VerdeJuly 14, 2024

Angola has become the first country to ratify the Malabo Protocol, paving the way for the creation of a true international African court of justice. What does Angola hope to gain from this move, and why now?

AngolaJune/July 2024

The Prolonged Suffering of Eastern DRC

Patrick HajayandiJuly 14, 2024

Since Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s descent into cyclical violence in 1996, the conflict has been entangled in regional and international interests and incoherent interventions.

Democratic Republic of the CongoJune/July 2024

Tinubu and West Africa’s Growing Coup Belt

Judith HassanJuly 7, 2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election as ECOWAS chairman shines light on his first geo-political test which is the handling of the recent coups in West Africa, a situation that can make or mar Nigeria’s foreign policy record.

AfricaJune/July 2024

A Fanonian Perspective on Israel and Palestine

Kai MoraJuly 4, 2024

The perpetual timelessness of repeating historic mistakes can only be combated with timeless, prudent and even prescient logic. Frantz Fanon’s work provides an important perspective to understand the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Best of 2024: EssaysJune/July 2024Nigeria

Decolonizing the Language of Political Science

Elias GbadamosiApril 28, 2024

The field of political science has long been dominated by Eurocentric theories and frameworks, leading to the marginalization of alternative epistemologies and worldviews from the Global South, particularly Africa.

AfricaApril/May 2024

‘Pour le Pays, Pour la Patrie, Mourir est Beau’

Anne Gaelle LissadeApril 21, 2024

Haiti was once a success story of enslaved Africans who withstood French and, subsequently, American imperialism. So much has changed since. Reflecting on Haiti’s national anthem, the ‘Dessalinienne’, I found irony in the descent into madness my country is currently experiencing.

April/May 2024Best of 2024: Essays

A Sahel-less ECOWAS

Abel GaiyaApril 2, 2024

The announcement by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger of their exit from ECOWAS, 24 years after Mauritania’s exit in 2000, threatens to de-Sahelize the regional bloc. It marks more fundamental problems associated with spatial inequality and its influence in West African national and regional politics that are yet to be addressed head on.

AfricaApril/May 2024

Nairobi in a Song A Boy, His Father, and Old Tunes

Tonny OgwaMarch 24, 2024

‘To Kenyans, 2023 feels like the year the country dies. But within this Rhumba and Jazz establishment in Nairobi’s Tao, it could as well be 1970,’ Ogwa writes. ‘Perched behind a corner table with two cold bottles of beer sweating before me, I pass a quintessential moment, watching folks of all ages waltz elegantly to Cabo Verde Barefoot Diva, Cesária Évora’s “Partida”... For me, old music is not just entertainment, it’s a compass with which I always find my way back to me.’

February/March 2024Kenya

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