The World Cup and international relations
Who gets to host future editions of the men’s soccer World Cup is not just big business, but also a bargaining chip in international relations.
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Marjorie Ruganda
Marjorie Namara Rugunda is a writer, researcher, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia.
The outflow of the colonial past
What will it take to get Germany to own up fully to the atrocities it committed during the Genocide in Namibia?
Pentecostal republic
Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.
Kinshasa headache
The harsh realities of resistance for a new generation in Joseph Kabila’s Congo.
Pay me what you owe me
Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls and Hari Kunzru’s White Tears.
The ethics of political art
A critical review of Swiss theatre director Milo Rau’s multi-media project, “Congo Tribunal,” about the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mutual Entanglements
The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
Rwanda’s £30 million Arsenal sleeve
The Arsenal ‘Visit Rwanda’ sponsorship deal is government image management 101.
Cobalt isn’t a conflict mineral
Policymakers need to properly assess the risks to ordinary Congolese people from expanding the “conflict minerals” category.
The post Trump fortunes of South Africa’s white nationalists
South Africa’s white nationalists are finally in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump. Nobody likes what they see.
Public funds for private gain
The planned global Education Outcomes Fund—the UN seems onboard—would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”
Italian fascists quoting Samora Machel and Sankara
The use of Marxist-inspired arguments, often distorted, to support racist or nationalist political positions, is known as “rossobrunismo” (red-brownism) in Italy.
I am German when we win
Mezut Ozil called out racism in Germany. So what happened to the conversation about dual heritage, racism and immigration there?
The President’s Footballers
Star players in Cameroon’s national soccer team have always doubled as PR pawns for the protracted rule of the country’s aging and hard-line head of state.
‘Why should we speak with you?’
An interview with Ruben Andersson on his book Illegality Inc, an ethnographic account of Europe’s efforts to halt irregular migration along Spain’s borders with Africa.
Kwame Nkrumah’s development state
Nkrumah’s government was driven by large scale state development projects. They have a mixed legacy. Can Ghanaians “redeem” the fruits of his development visions?
Pentecostal penance provides dubious prosperity
Prosperity preachers in Africa have been the subject of much media coverage, but may not be as popular as it would seem.
Decolonizing the academy
On the denial of academic institutions when it comes to talk of decolonization.
The Ghetto President of Uganda
Bobi Wine, building off political protest of the last decade, has become a symbol for a new politics in Uganda.
Eddison Zvobgo and the struggle for Zimbabwe
Eddison Zvobgo was both implicated in and a critic of Mugabe’s rule. He paid for it. His niece remembers him.