
Politics



A New Day in Côte d’Ivoire?
The incumbent Alassane Ouattara’s electoral sweep might be a good outcome for Côte d’Ivoire.

What is the university for?
We should not be tempted to idealize the university ‘as it was’ – especially in a country like South Africa.


The tyranny of distance, up close
The larger story of the United States’s rapidly expanding military interests and presence on the continent.


Guatemala’s blackface president
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.


Fallism For What
After the reawakening of South African student activism, what next? It is at the point of the rub between race, class and gender politics that the difficult questions present themselves.

Our Eleven Minute Film about Fees Must Fall
"Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation" lets mostly women students, mostly from Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, articulate for themselves what is going on in this moment.

We Are Called Those Who Have Come
The fearlessness with which South African students confront their society's contradictions, suggests much more than fees may fall.


The Illusion of South American Unity
Real regional integration would mean both the end of trade barriers and the local subsidies that distort trade flows and prevent competition.

The student uprisings in South Africa
Demands for racial justice and concerns about economic inequality are coming together in a powerful call for change that cannot be ignored or easily dismissed.



When Thomas Piketty went to South Africa
Bizarrely, for all the attention paid Piketty’s visit to South Africa, we've learned very little about what he actually said. So, what did he tell his hosts?

Dispatch from Berlin
“What is the difference between refugees and ‘normal’ citizens besides the fact that the former had to flee from their homes? There is none.”

October 15, 1987: The Murder of Thomas Sankara
Note left at Thomas Sankara's graveside: “Mama Sankara, your son will be avenged. We are all Sankara.”