Review – Do Not Disturb
Wrong’s book explores Rwanda’s complex political scene and the murder of an adversary of the president that challenges the dominant image of Kagame’s Rwanda.
Interview – Pierre Englebert
Pierre Englebert discusses African statehood, and how it interacts with the concept of secessionism, as well as the impact of colonialism on the political study of Africa.
Review – Power Politics in Africa
By considering the hegemonic rivalry of Nigeria and South Africa, including their hard and soft power capabilities, this edited volume provides a much needed contribution to African perspectives on IR.
Review – The Postcolonial African State in Transition
Amy Niang’s book takes up the urgent task of our collective postcolonial moment: to trace and critique historical trajectories, while finding in these the possibility to extract and abstract a plurality of modes of being, so as to create future imaginaries.
By Our Own Hands and by Theirs: Africans and the Nervousness to Belong
We must move beyond partisanship and forge a truly inclusive place on our own terms where Africans can finally belong, exist without being erased.
Opinion — Who Is in Charge of Decolonizing Africa?
Africa cannot possibly thrive if it upholds an identity and standards that were precisely created to eliminate African culture and assimilate African peoples into foreign ideals.
The Status of African Women in Foreign Policy
The dominance of patriarchal sociocultural values continues to undermine prospects for women to aspire towards or thrive within foreign policy oriented spaces.
Opinion – Dismantling Ongoing Realities of Colonization in Africa
it is time that Africans and those who are committed to Africa’s liberation from a colonial paradigm internalize that “only the best is good enough for Africa”.
Opinion – Covid-19 and Africa
The solution to the current pandemic is to recognize its public health status, its global nature, the urgent threat to humanity, and the superior reason of public interest.
Interview – Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui
Siba N. Grovogui discusses the importance of Black history for IR, sovereignty and Eurocentrism, Guinea and international law and his new book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy.
