In this post, Titilope F. Ajayi from the University of Ghana discusses the well-intended response by Nigerians to alleviate the suffering caused by flooding in Nigeria’s Benue State. She echoes […]
By: Michael Ochieng’ Otieno, SJ, Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR)
In July 2009, on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa after taking office, President Barack Obama visited […]
By Angela Okune
A recent workshop held in South Africa convened two unlikely groups: San* groups in South Africa and sex workers in Nairobi. What do these two seemingly unrelated […]
By: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Now that Jeffrey Gettleman has published a memoir about his tenure as the New York Times’s East Africa correspondent that is widely viewed […]
By: Angela Okune
For the second post in this week’s series looking at problematic reporting of Africa, we repost part of a recent piece by Karen Attiah, The Washington Post’s Global […]
By: Uduak Amimo*
I was asked by the CIHA Blog to write a review of Jeffrey Gettleman’s memoir, Love, Africa, after ranting on Twitter about foreign correspondents who spend years in […]
CIHA Blog partner, Ujamaa Center at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, has an upcoming lecture as part of their Gunther H. Wittenberg Memorial Lecture Series, which aims to generate a specifically African […]
By Gerald O. West, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics & Ujamaa Centre – University of KwaZulu-Natal
Introduction
Working from within queer theory (as charted by scholars such as Marcella Althaus-Reid), […]
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