International Affairs
Bitter Canaans The False Equivalence of Liberia and Israel
Despite their similarities, to insist that Liberia and Israel are equivalent examples of diaspora settler colonialism, is flawed. Read More...
Why Not the African Giant? Reflecting On Nigeria’s Non-Invitation to Join BRICS Membership
Nigeria’s non-invitation to join BRICS membership following invitations sent to Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates reflects the country’s unimpressive foreign policy. Read More...
Eyeless in Gaza Locating Gaza’s Roads to Africa
Polemics about Gaza often reflect Israel’s complex relationship to African anti-colonial struggles and Africans’ own dynamic relationship to Zionism and the Jewish people. Gaza, however, also highlights the enduring richness of Africa’s anti-colonial past in defining the terms of Palestinian struggle. Read More...
Israel’s Uncertainty in Africa Explaining Africa’s Divided Views on Israel
Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza, which followed Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, threatens to nullify several decades of concerted efforts from Israel to establish diplomatic ties with African nations. Read More...
To Be in the World: Notes Against Forgetting A Case for New African Internationalist Politics
Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine has unveiled and deepened ideological divides in debates about state power and the use of violence; ethnonationalism and the ‘right to exist’; mass mobilization and solidarities across difference. At the heart of these debates is a growing awareness of the limits of Western liberal democracy and a call for new vocabularies and frameworks for political action that echo and extend Black internationalist and Third-Worldism movements of the twentieth century. Read More...
The Back End of Genocide How the Rush for Congo’s Cobalt is Killing Thousands
The Democratic Republic of Congo is currently facing a humanitarian crisis as miners are forced to work under exploitative conditions which amounts to modern-day slavery. The mining industry, because of its high demand, is host to various human rights violations including child labour. Read More...
Niger: Whose Constitutional Order? The Niger Coup and Global Geopolitical Interests
The July 2023 Niger coup was the sixth one in a former French colony along the Sahel in West Africa. However, the Niger coup got more attention than preceding military coups due to some driving interests by some actors who have called for a return to constitutional order. Read More...
Africa’s Promise Re-echoes Why the Continent Remains a Place of Hope
The African continent, despite its varied challenges, remains a place of hope. As many nations across the continent reach a socio-political inflection point, ideas and ideals will shape the new future young Africans envision for themselves. Read More...
Visa-Free Africa for Africans Rwanda Announces Visa-Free Entry for African Nationals
Rwanda joins three other African countries that allow visa-free entry for all African nationals. This development shows the, albeit slow, gradual advancement of the African Union’s vision of free movement on the continent. Read More...
Can Africa’s Coup Problem be solved? Why Africa’s Coups Appear Unending
The recurrence of military coups d’état in Africa is the result of the continent's clear structural fragilities and has no easy solutions. The fragilities may even culminate in a more generalized crisis that precipitates a more widespread coup contagion. Read More...
