In the News: Things People Who Want to Help Africa Should Know
The CIHA Blog is starting a new series called “Things People Who Want to Help Africa Should Know,” which we hope students, activists and scholars will use and contribute to. Here […]
In the News
The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
In the News: Short Story by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Translated into more than 30 Languages
We at The CIHA Blog are very eager to publicize the pan-African writers’ collective site, Jalada. In this issue, Jalada publishes 32 translations of a new story by our friend, supporter, and freedom […]
In the News: Liberia’s Public Schools Go Private
Anti-corruption poster, Liberia, 2004
For a number of years, reports of corruption in Liberia’s education system, reaching all the way to the Ministry of Education, have been numerous, […]
In the News: Terrorist Attack in Cote d’Ivoire
Much of the international media response to the March 13 terrorist attacks in Grand-Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire, highlighted the fact that the group that took responsibility for the attack, al-Qaeda of […]
In the News: Another Libyan Intervention?
As The CIHA Blog has posted about before, the 2011 intervention in Libya, justified through the language of humanitarianism, ultimately destabilized the region, as seen with the rise […]
In the News: Looking forward to the World Humanitarian Summit
Irin News has assessed the UN secretary-general’s recommendations for humanitarian reforms and developed a list of what will likely be (and not be) on the agenda at May’s World Humanitarian […]
In the News: The Deceptive Excuse of Humanitarian Intervention
by Cilas Kemedjio
On July 17, 1964, Malcolm X, in his role as the Chairman of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, was admitted as an observer at the Summit of the […]
In the News: Report from Conference on Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies in Africa
The Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR) has just released their report from the International Conference on Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies in Africa that was […]