Last Updated on Tuesday 03 October 2017
T. Kamau
Recent developments in the International Court of Justice/ICJ/ have drawn public attention away from military and boundary disputes between African states to a question that is so much political and moral: self-determination and upholding basic rights of…
Panel 4: Emerging Economies and Africa (Great Hall, King’s College London, Strand. 15:45–17:15)
Chair: Dr Roberta Comunian, Reader in Creative Economies, King’s College London
Speakers
Emerging powers, Ethiopia and the Horn
Hi Medhane,
It should be no surprise that I am in sympathy with the sentiments of your negative assessment of external mediation in general and with respect to Sudan and South Sudan in particular. I think the critique, however, has to be placed in a broader…
Liesl Louw-Vaudran
African Union (AU) chairperson, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat travelled to Windhoek, Namibia, recently to address the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. This…
The upcoming BRICS Summit marks the start of a new phase in Cyril Ramaphosa’s international standing. Though the hype around BRICS has noticeably died down new chair South Africa must use the opportunity to revitalize the bloc in a way it helps alternative political forces. Central…
The element in US military spread in Africa that may turn out to be the most significant is the very one that Washington has chosen to ignore —delivery. The developing security situation in many parts of the…
Feteka Ndulo
Weekly, daily, indeed sometimes hourly, we have trouble believing what we see coming out of South African politics. The country is facing a tough time economically due to global trends but also because of political instability. Grassroots…
Suleiman B.
From time to time since George W. Bush administration there have been outbreaks of melancholy about the US Africa Command or AFRICOM. The explanation is not hard to find: the memory of imperial order does not contrast favorably with such…
THE THINGS THAT KEEP ME AWAKE AT NIGHT: All in One!
Though it ended on a note of extraordinary bleakness of the country’s political economy my starting point was dissatisfaction with the pernicious geopolitical move of the leadership.