Just got this in the mail: Call for Abstracts International Conference on: Youth and Democratization in Africa: Lessons Learned and Comparative Experiences Jointly Organized by the Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) of the UNECA and International IDEA, Addis Ababa Office Date: 12th – 13th September 2012 Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia … Read More »
This continues the Caine Prize blogathon. My commentary on Billy Kahora’s ‘Urban Zoning’ is below. Other bloggers’ reviews are at the bottom of the page. We enter the story as Kandle, the protagonist and anti-hero of sorts, has just managed to put himself into the Zone. One reaches the Zone after having consistently drunk alcohol and deprived oneself… Read More »
I review Edward R. Carr’s book for SAIS Review. An excerpt: Underlying typical research is the assumption that a more intense integration into the global market economy is the solution to development problems, and that GDP growth brings an improvement in the well-being of a country’s citizens. Most existing development indicators have these same assumptions… Read More »
So, I decided to pretend that I know something about literature and join the Caine Prize blogathon this year. For an introduction to the blogathon, see Aaron Bady’s post here. My commentary on the first story, Rotimi Babatunde’s Bombay’s Republic (pdf), is below. Other bloggers’ reviews are at the bottom of the page. The first two-thirds of the… Read More »
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research grant applications from African researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding at universities and research institutions or regional governmental and non-governmental organizations in Africa. About the African Peacebuilding Network The APN promotes independent African research and analysis on… Read More »
This is a pet peeve of mine. Why are European and North American media houses willing to splash pictures of dead and/or mutilated bodies of Africans on newspapers and on-air? I really have to find the time to do a proper post on the subject. But while you are waiting, see this, from G. Pascal… Read More »
This is what I’m rocking for the whole of today. Mucho thanks to my friend Kola for sending me the link. Dude, you made my day.
As you’ve probably heard, the Pirate Party got elected into the Berlin state parliament late last year. They got 8.9% of the votes, which gave them 15 seats. Last month in local elections in another state, Saarland, they got 7.4% of the votes, but more importantly, they got 25% of the first-time voters and about… Read More »
Elizabeth Grant at Open Democracy: … so long as the narrative of a tolerant Germany is more important than the experience of those who are testing that dream, the country will be condemned to repeating these traumas and disgraces. Racism has much to do with accepting what you don’t understand, and, as such, the fight… Read More »
The call is here. If your paper is selected you get an all-expense-paid trip to Berlin for the conference.