The Sudan Uprisings – clues for an anti-capitalist agenda
A spectre is haunting the world- the spectre of Austerity. Deficit-cutting measures now haunt populations across the world and it is the poorest and most vulnerable that are being hit [...]
The Spear: Zuma unwrapped
The arts and the historical conditions of their creation are undoubtedly interdependent and not always easily demarcated, with each consistently blurring into the other. As critics such as Frederic Jameson [...]
Interconnected chaos in Islamic Africa – the Tuareg rebellion
Much has been written about the domestic implications of the Arab Spring, but the external relevance of the uprising across North Africa and the Arab world has not yet been [...]
Interactivity or interpassivity? African Warlords and the ‘Slacktivist Generation’
Anyone who has been following and studying the conflict between the (now Ugandan government) National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda, would have woken [...]
A Senegalese Spring or merely “we’re fed up”?
Senegal has long been understood as the bastion of democracy in western-most Africa. The region has seen prolonged conflict in Sierra Leone and Liberia, post-election violence and disorder in Cote [...]
Colonialism’s New Clothes: How Angola’s new elite is getting away with old crimes
So here we are again. Another century, another crisis. But this time, power relations have shifted and Europe is on the brink. We now face the possibility that Angola may [...]
Two Sides of the Same Dialectic
Islamism has in many respects replaced Soviet Communism as the evil Other that the United States defines itself against. The US’s ‘Free World’ mission was always defined in relation to [...]
Eternal Famine?
The Dialectical Repetition of Famine in Ethiopia It would be very easy to watch and read the Western coverage of the famine in the Horn of Africa, as the infinite [...]
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