Track Changes: Asking Questions about Gendered Representations of Culture, Religion and Violence

March 16, 2015 0

In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) […]

The African Studies Association of Africa: Its Place in History and the Academy

March 5, 2015 0

In October 2015, the African Studies Association of Africa will host its first international conference at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria on the theme “African Studies in the Twenty-First Century: […]

The Fight against Poverty: Humanitarian Idealism and the Elusive Quest for Development

February 24, 2015 0

In this three-part series (we post Part Three today), Cilas Kemedjio takes on the ongoing crusade to spread neoliberal dogma and “western values.”  Part One addresses the “virgin fallacy,” […]

The Ideology of Freedom and Progress: Western Supremacy, Virgin Africa, and the Fight Against Poverty

February 16, 2015 0

In this three-part series (we post Part Two today), Cilas Kemedjio takes on the ongoing crusade to spread neoliberal dogma and “western values.”  Part One addresses the “virgin fallacy,” […]

The Virgin Fallacy: From the Famine Cotton Board to the Millennium Village Project

February 13, 2015 0

In this three-part series (we post Part One today), Cilas Kemedjio takes on the ongoing crusade to spread neoliberal dogma and “western values.”  Part Two addresses William Easterly’s call to […]

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