MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON - Chris Maroleng, International Chief Executive Officer of Good Governance Africa, has proposed a set of recommendations to the US House of Representatives Committee on...
Colonialism
Troubled and ambiguous
Heritage: the long shadows of past and present Commemorating heritage in Africa is no longer the exclusive province of governments There was an interesting exchange between Thabo Mbeki and Constand Viljoen in the late...
A relationship richly infused with meaning
Southern Africa: cattle and colonialism Historically, cattle are central to the lives of southern Africans in economic, political, social, spiritual and cultural terms Human life, and human wellbeing, are tightly bound...
Unpacking white privilege
South Africa: race relations When white ‘allies’ want to make a difference will there still be space for their contribution? By Rian Malan The great struggle of my life thus far has been to come to terms with and, if...
Re-education for reconciliation: participant observations on ingando
Rwanda: ‘re-education camps’ A Canadian academic is ordered to pay attention, keep quiet and learn the country’s official history By Susan Thomson In the midst of my doctoral fieldwork, the Rwandan government ordered...
Africa’s real economy
Global competition and the active downsizing of formal jobs force most Africans to look elsewhere for a living Widespread recognition that the informal economy is expanding rather than declining across the...
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