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Archives for June 2016

The Many Africas

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Ian H. Solomon | July/August 2016 Issue | Foreign Affairs Beyond Continental Caricatures In his memoir, The Lion Awakes, Ashish Thakkar describes how, as a young entrepreneur selling computer parts across Africa in the 1990s, he noticed that flights within the conti­nent seemed to take longer than the distances on a map would suggest. “Were the planes slower?” he … [Read more...] about The Many Africas

When Black and White Children Grow Apart

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 Melinda D. Anderson | Jun 14, 2016 | The Atlantic  Research shows that interracial friendships decline as kids enter adolescence—and that teachers may play a role. The image of black and white children hand-in-hand is possibly the most well-known and most often quoted line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech. Over the years, black and white youngsters … [Read more...] about When Black and White Children Grow Apart

No, South Sudan’s citizens want trials and need trials

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David Deng | June 9, 2016 | African Arguements President Kiir and Vice-President Machar have warned against prosecuting war criminals, but South Sudanese know that justice is needed if long-term peace is to be viable There’s a common saying in South Sudan that ‘When our leaders unite, they loot; when they divide, they kill.’ An op-ed published this week under the … [Read more...] about No, South Sudan’s citizens want trials and need trials

Why it is crucial to locate the ‘African’ in African Studies

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Robtel Neajai Pailey, Senior Researcher, University of Oxford | June 14, 2016 | The Conversation Africans have always produced knowledge about Africa. Their contributions have in some cases been “preferably unheard”. In others they’ve been “deliberately silenced”. So what constitutes an “African” in the heyday of multiple citizenships and transnational flows of … [Read more...] about Why it is crucial to locate the ‘African’ in African Studies

Searching for Soweto: mystery of a man whose image defined apartheid brutality

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Ashifa Kassam in Toronto and Jason Burke in Johannesburg | Thursday 16 June 2016 | The Guardian Forty years after the Soweto uprising, and a photo of a young man carrying a dead child ricocheted around the world, his identity remains shrouded in mystery It was a photo seen around the world: Mbuyisa Makhubu, his face twisted with anguish, carrying 13-year-old … [Read more...] about Searching for Soweto: mystery of a man whose image defined apartheid brutality