Interview

Interview

Violence is central to building a state. How Museveni has lasted more that four decades.

An interview with scholar Mahmood Mamdani --In his latest book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, anthropologist Mahmood...

Desiring whiteness. A book explores this racist history in colonial Senegal

By Caroline Séquin Desiring Whiteness is an award-winning book by historian Caroline Séquin. It explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics...

A political vendetta in DRCongo

Was it the sentencing of former Congolese president Joseph Kabila a political vendetta? Ithiel Batumike, a jurist at Congolese political research institute Ebuteli, answers...

Jan Pronk: a ventriloquist from another civilization

Jan Pronk, a Dutch politician and diplomat born in 1940, dedicated his life to helping the vulnerable through many years of significant international service....

Health care collapse looms. Modern diseases on the rise

The health care system of many African countries is on the verge of collapse due to the withdrawal of American aid. This will not...

A difficult homecoming. Ali Kony and the twilight of the Lord’s Resistance Army

Once the Lord’s Resistance Army of Uganda was one of the most brutal fighting groups of Africa. It hardly exists anymore but is not...

South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and what’s going wrong

By Lindy Heinecken The death of South African soldiers on a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sparked fierce debate about...

The war puts the dams in Sudan at risk

The war in Sudan has been devastating. Not only have millions of people fled, hospitals, schools, museums, places of worship and apartment buildings have...

The Africanist Podcast Sudan: Episode with Mr. Koert Lindijer

“Sudan is a schizophrenic country…” Two-year-old war in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by Abdelfattah al-Burhan & the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

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