October 19, 2014
Who Needs Eurocentric Nobel Prizes in Literature?Rogers Atukunda
Ngugi I am no literature professor or literary giant per se, I write from my humble opinion as a student of the Ivory Tower where I witnessed how…
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September 26, 2014
War, Circus and Injustice Down Under By John Pilger
There are times when farce and living caricature almost consume the cynicism and mendacity in the daily life of Australia’s rulers. Across the front pages is a photograph…
September 25, 2014
Food and the FAO’s insecurity with the two-thirds world By Rahul Goswami
In its State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 report (SOFI 2014), which has just been released, the ‘world’ according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture…
September 25, 2014
Exposed: The ‘heroic Ebola doctor’ myth by Jon Rappoport
Every psyop [psychological operation] needs heroes as well as villains.So-called epidemics are managed out of a playbook.The playbook looks very much like something the CIA would come up…
September 25, 2014
US militarizes response to Ebola crisis while Cuba pledges medical aid By Abayomi Azikiwe
A team of eight experts and journalists visiting the southern region of the West African state of Guinea were found dead in the town of Nzerekore on Sept.…
September 24, 2014
Libya, the ‘failed state’, needs to look back
In March 2011, at the time the so-called leaders of the free world were foaming at the mouth and trying to outshout each other in calling for the…
September 4, 2014
The NGO-ization of resistance By By Arundhati Roy
A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an indictment of all NGOs.…
July 25, 2014
Africa Top 10 Problems: Not the ones You were thinking about! By Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
Africa is not poor. Africa is a rich continent inhabited by poor people. Once we fix the people problem, everything else will fall into place. In this post,…
July 25, 2014
Live from Bangui: Why Inclusive Dialogue Matters in CAR
Last June, when I first arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR), one of the resident ex-pats suggested I visit ‘Cinq Kilo’ – Bangui’s largest market. ‘It’s rowdy,…
July 21, 2014
Letter from Gaza by Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert on 20 July 2014
Dr Mads Frederick Gilbert (centre) at Al-Shifa hospital on July 17th, treating a wounded Palestinian child, after an Israeli air strike killed 4 children and wounded 5 others…
July 20, 2014
Death by Machete or death by Gun?
Of all the controversial issues in America, my favorite has to be the Gun Rights and Gun Violence dramas. What can I say? I am from Rwanda. Ever…
July 18, 2014
War-Such an unnecessary evil By Tumusiime K. Deo
In many countries, the proportion of the total national budget spent on the military, is a lion’s share compared to other priorities. And even then, there’s always…
July 7, 2014
Africans in Asia During Age of Enslavement: Revolts and Resistance By Runoko Rashidi
One thing that we have not done here and will not do is begin our survey of the African presence in Asia with enslavement. Indeed, we think that…
June 26, 2014
Heed the Voices For Peace Amid the Tragedy of Iraq By Amy Goodman
It didn’t take long this week for the architects of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq to apply their makeup and jump before the cable news…
June 21, 2014
Iraq: What does one do with the broken pieces?
Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens There is the legendary sign in shops selling china and porcelain “Do not touch; If you break it, you buy it”.…
June 19, 2014
Behind Islamophobia, Fascism and Complicit Antifascism By Houria Bouteldja
First, I would like to thank the conference organizers for inviting me. I want to pay tribute to their efforts for putting together this high-quality conference. As is…
June 18, 2014
Race, class, and gender: Intersectionality between social reality and political limits
By Houria Bouteldja I would like to thank the University of California at Berkeley and in particular the Ethnic Studies Department for this invitation. It is an honor…
June 17, 2014
Liberia And Its Conflicting Narratives Of Conflict By Nvasekie N Konneh
–A+A 0 Author says President Tolbert, assassinated during 1980 coup, paid “more for the sins of the past” Long before the Marcus Garvey “Back to Africa” Movement…
June 12, 2014
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK by Ayana Labossiere
I will never forget my first trip to Haiti. In 1990, at five years old, I went to Haiti with my dad to visit family. I spent my…
June 12, 2014
Biafra, The Ostrich Mentality And Nigeria’s Tragedy By Okey Ndibe
There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront…
June 11, 2014
Good, Innovative Governance – What Is That? EDITORIAL by Johan Galtung
Pretoria, South Africa, Keynote Governance is politics, power–political-economic-military-cultural; decisions-carrots-sticks-ideas. Politics is about problems of realizing one goal; about conflicts realizing incompatible goals. Contradiction = danger+opportunity; the art…
June 7, 2014
The film Zulu, 50 years on: classic or racist? By Kimon de Greef
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the film “Zulu”. While some consider it a classic, others see it as offensive and racist. This Is Africa spoke to…
June 1, 2014
A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis By Christian Parenti
Several strands of green thinking maintain that capitalism is incapable of a sustainable relationship with non-human nature because, as an economic system, capitalism has a growth imperative while…
May 31, 2014
TRANSCEND Peace University: Africa: Africa in 2064 – A 'Reciprocal Development' & 'Basic Human Needs' Approach
Africa’s current development models tend to echo the priorities of colonialism, perpetuating structural inequalities that hinder development and exacerbate existing contradictions. To remedy this, development reciprocity and African-centred…
May 29, 2014
Boko Haram affair: President Kagame fires at West-African leaders
"When I watch TV and I see that our leaders, who should have been working together all along to address this problems that commonly affect their countries; wait…