Discussion of the often-intersecting issues of politics, health, access to food, agriculture, land rights, and climate change.
en français
by Cecelia Lynch and Cilas Kemedjio, U.S. based Co-Editors of The CIHA Blog
The earthquake of the wee hours of 11/9/16 in the U.S. was very different than that of […]
by Albert Bangirana
The #FeesMustFall movement was founded by students with an explicit and clear mandate of pursuing free education […]
As we gear up for our conference in South Africa next week, we do not want to lose sight of some of the great things that happened on the […]
by Dr. Benjamin N. Lawrance
Africa as marginal, Africa as forgotten, Africa as a country… we’ve all encountered the tired and simplistic formulae and frameworks that are reproduced time and time […]
by Deborah Mindry, UCLA, & Kara Miller, UC Riverside
There is a long and complex history of Western aid and medical interventions in Africa dating from the colonial era to the […]
Dear CIHA Blog Readers,
We draw your attention to a petition at the University of Ghana that has gone viral, to bring down a recently-erected statue of Gandhi (the only statue […]
en français
by Cilas Kemedjio
The post-electoral situation in Gabon demonstrates how the troubled role of the self-proclaimed guarantors of the new international order can set fire to powder. Such interference […]
by Israel Laizer[i]
Controversies about effectiveness of aid go back to some decades (Radelet, 2006). Scholars such as Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Nicholas Stern hold that […]
The CIHA Blog’s newest partner, Gaston Berger University, is planning an exciting series of events concerning our themes of religion and humanitarianism for The Blog. Below, we introduce our […]