Christian and African Identities vis-à-vis Postcolonial Ecologies (from Contending Modernities)
The CIHA blog is pleased to repost a review for Contending Modernities by co-editor Cecelia Lynch, on Emmanuel Katongole’s book, Who Are My […]
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“Who Are My People?” by Emmanuel Katongole | Book Launch
CIHA is pleased to repost the panel discussion of Professor Emmanuel Katongole’s latest book, “Who Are My People?: Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa,” at the […]
Track Changes: Kenya and the New York Times redux
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we critique online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide questions or thoughts provoked […]
Intersectionality, language, and global “hybridities”: Africans and critics talk back to the Humanitarian Imaginary
The CIHA Blog’s Senegal conference on Health, Healing, Religion and Gender in Africa prompted important reflections regarding the place of this conference in the work of the Blog, and about […]
The Many Faces of Lament: A Response to Emmanuel Katongole’s “Born from Lament”
Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, recently published his […]
Who is Resilient? Problematizing the Appropriation of “Resilience” in Humanitarian Action
By: Cecelia Lynch
Humanitarianism is well-known for its buzzwords – sustainability, capacity-building, partnership. One of the newest buzzwords is “resilience.” As a recent report on resilience demonstrates, both faith-based and “secular” […]
Africa Now! Trump and Africa Discussion at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2016
By Cilas Kemedjio (University of Rochester) and Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine), Co-Editors of The CIHA Blog (Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa, www.cihablog.com)
Our panel on the impact of […]
