Post-Gaddafi Reconstruction of Libya
BY PROF. ALPASLAN OZERDEM** | 11.09.2011 On 19 August 2011, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Vice-Chairman of National Transition Council (NTC), the rebel group fighting against the Colonel Gaddafi regime in Libya...
State Failure and Civil Society Potential: Reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
BY VERITY MOULD** | 06.09.2011 Introduction Between 1998 and 2007, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resulted in the deaths of 5.4 million people; a death toll...
Remembering the Past and Reconciling for the Future:
The Role of Indigenous Commemorative Practices in Sierra Leone* BY DR. STEVEN KAINDANEH** | 06.09.2011 Introduction Scholars have taken a keen interest in the study of war commemoration and its...
Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflicts, and Secessionism in Ethiopian Politics
BY BEZAWIT BEYENE** | 19.08.2011 Theoretical Overview Ethnicity is one aspect of identity around which people organise themselves; it is often the core element by which people mobilize and seek...
Libya – 100 Days On
By Prof. STEFAN WOLFF | 30.06.2011 On 27 March 2011, NATO launched Operation Unified Protector to protect civilians in Libya under (the threat of) military attack by forces loyal to the regime...
The Revolt in North Africa in Global Perspective:
How Neoliberal Policies Triggered Widespread Poverty and Unemployment, and Perhaps an Arab ‘Caracazo’* BY PROF. BULENT GOKAY** | 08.06.2011 On 17 December 2010, a 26-year-old man named Mohammed Bouaziz poured...
DDR: Niger Delta and Sri Lanka: Smoke and Mirrors?
BY DESMOND MOLLOY** | 07.06.2011 In the early summer of 2009, both Nigeria and Sri Lanka launched Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) processes; Nigeria to address the activities of armed...
Reflections on Violence and Nonviolence in the Arab Uprisings
BY DR. GUY BURTON | 11.04.2011 Following the overthrow of the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents in the last two months, the Arab uprisings appear to have stalled. Across the Middle East,...
The Sociolinguistics of a Nollywood Movie
Dr. Emmanuel Adedayo Adedun | 11 October 2010 This article demonstrates that the use of English in Nigerian (Nollywood) movies is linguicist. Linguicism is a terminology coined by Phillipson to...
Cameroon’s Golden Anniversary of Independence: Anything to Celebrate?
Prof. Alpaslan Ozerdem | 01 June 2010 As is the case for 16 other African countries, this year is the 50th anniversary of independence for Cameroon. The year of 1960 was a...
President Goodluck Jonathan and Nigeria’s Frail Democracy
By Chris, M. A. Kwaja | 03 October 2010 The death of the Late President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar'adua on Wednesday,...
2010 World Cup not for all Africans
By Thembisa Fakude |15 April 2010 In May 2002, the Federation of International Football Associations (Fifa) decided to rotate the hosting of the World Cup tournament to a different continent every...
Nigeria: The urgent need for strategic leadership
By Phillip Eyam-Ozung | 24 March 2010 The real implication of modern globalization reducing the world into a global village is that every inch of the global space has...
The Sarkozy technique
Kaye Whiteman 04 March 2010 I make no apology for returning again to the subject of France in Africa. Last week, I brought it in to my...
‘We have to find the courage to celebrate our diversity’ Kofi Annan
01 March 2010 When Nelson Mandela walked to freedom 20 years ago, he re-entered a society seemingly irreversibly split by the evil of apartheid. An explosion of violence,...