Category: Africa

BY PROF. ALAN HUNTER** | 11.09.2011 Human Security conceptualisation analyses the interface between security, development and intervention. Traditionally, 'security' mostly referred to the security of nation-states in the context of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...