In the News: International NGOs at Risk?
Is funding bypassing NGOs from the U.S. and Europe and going directly to organizations based in the Global South? This is one of the theories described in a Guardian […]
In the News
The CIHA Blog’s commentary on recent news pieces about events in Africa.
In the News: World Bank Accused of Supporting Land Grabs
A new report from The Oakland Institute details how the World Bank’s desire measure the “ease of doing business” can cause “many developing-country leaders to deregulate their economies in hopes […]
In the News: Poverty is a Moral Problem
The interview with William Easterly in Christianity Today raises important issues around morality, aid, and the rights of people who are supposed to benefit from aid. While Easterly has […]
In the News: Climate Change and the Slave Trade
“What climate change and slave trade in Africa have in common,” by Kofi Adu Domfeh in Luv News, looks at similarities between climate change and the slave trade in […]
In the News: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Law
The anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, which was signed by President Museveni on February 24, may have implications for aid, given that Uganda receives over $400 million annually in funding for […]
In the News: Conflict in South Sudan
The Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations (HIPSIR), in its most recent newsletter, explores South Sudan’s conflict and whether Africa’s newest state can hold. Read more in […]
In the News: Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism
Talal Asad, writing in Critical Inquiry, raises complicated questions about humanity, morality, Enlightenment, law and politics. He asks, in part, “What gives the modern project called ‘humanitarianism’ its moral […]
In the News: Foundations’ Giving Behavior
by Akosua Adomako Ampofo
If most private foundations (in the US) have endowments of less than $50m, indeed more like $10m, and most, despite this, ‘give’ more than the legally-required minimum […]
In the News: New Research on the African Diaspora
A conference at the University of California, Irvine, titled “Liberated Africans and Digital Humanities: African Diaspora Reconsidered,” was held in early October, organized around themes of slavery, freedom, race, and […]