What to Expect at the Washington DC 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association

October 11, 2016 0

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 […]

Another Look into the Web Series, “An African City”

October 7, 2016 0

Following last week’s two perspectives on the Ghanaian television and web series, An African City, we hear this week from Brigid Warnke in New York, who compares An African City to its […]

A Deeper Look into the Web Series, “An African City”

September 29, 2016 0

Now with two season complete, we at The CIHA Blog are weighing in on the Ghanaian television and web series, An African City. Dubbed as Africa’s “Sex in the City”, the show portrays […]

Petition: Gandhi’s Statue at the University of Ghana Must Come Down

September 27, 2016 0

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 […]

The Situation in Gabon: Interference That Knows No End / Situation au Gabon: Ingérence Sans Fin

September 26, 2016 0

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 […]

Steve Biko, Black Consciousness and Individual Empowerment / Steve Biko, Conscience Noire et Responsabilité Individuelle

September 21, 2016 0

by Dr. Christopher Merrett

The CIHA Blog presents the last of a series of reflections that have looked at four eminent South African thinkers: Richard Turner, John Colenso, Albert Luthuli and […]

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