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Tag archive: africa

“A Character Who Makes History”: Hendrik Witbooi and the Evolution of German Imperial Policy in Colonial Namibia

Written by Adam A. Blackler | 5 Mar 2018

Depictions of colonized African peoples from Southwest Africa (DSWA, present-day Namibia), Germany’s first overseas colony, were prevalent throughout the German metropole at the turn of the twentieth century.…


Author, Tim Longman, responds to Trump’s recent comments

Tim Longman | 18 Jan 2018

Although President Donald Trump’s recent comments disparaging African countries have drawn international condemnation, many Americans unfortunately share his perception that Africa is a miserable place where no one would choose to live.…


ASR Forum: Land Disputes and Displacement in Post-Conflict Africa. Questioning Boundaries and Belonging

Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Lotte Meinert | 18 Nov 2017

Conflict-related displacement is increasingly central in shaping land claims, property relations, and modes of belonging in the African continent. In settings of forced mobility and resettlement, land property claims define the continued struggles over community membership and access to resources.…


No Longer Business as Usual: Citizens’ emerging role in enforcing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Zimbabwe

Prosper Maguchu | 18 Aug 2017

According to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) the responsibility to respect human rights requires that business enterprises: “Avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, and address such impacts when they occur.” Moreover, Principle 5 provides that “States should exercise adequate oversight in order to meet their international human rights obligations when they contract with, or legislate for, business enterprises to provide services that may impact upon the enjoyment of human rights.” This seems relevant in the case of the Government of Zimbabwe (Government) contracting a German private company, Giesecke and Devrient (G and D GmbH)‚ to print a surrogate currency “Bond Notes”.…


Camera Traps Reveal Crop-use Behaviour in African Elephants

Josephine Smit | 14 Jul 2017

Researchers have published a new study in the journal Oryx that employed camera traps to investigate crop use by African elephants along the boundary of Udzungwa Mountains National Park in south-central Tanzania.


Journals aid and donation in developing countries: An interview with Anne Powell of INASP

Becky Roberts | 8 May 2016

Cambridge University Press works with several international aid programs to secure sustainable access to research for people living in developing countries.…


Does location matter? A study of malnutrition amongst Ethiopian children

Seifu Hagos | 4 Mar 2016

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Local spatial clustering of stunting and wasting among children under the age of 5 years: implications for intervention strategies’.


Ivory poachers’ use of poison endangers vultures

Darcy Ogada | 29 Dec 2015

Conservationists warn ivory poachers’ use of poison is further decimating Africa’s endangered vultures


Debate: The ANC in Exile

Kerr Alexander | 3 Feb 2015

Several recent publications have explored the ANC’s external links during South Africa’s apartheid years. Four review texts published as a Debate in the February 2015 issue of Africa offer an insight into attempts to understand this aspect of the ANC’s struggle.…


The politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa

Kerr Alexander |

Adapted from the introductory article to the latest issue of Africa, a special issue themed around xenophobia, guest editors Laurent Fourchard and Aurelia Segatti expand on the theme of the special issue and articles.…


The Uncertainty of Help

Kerr Alexander | 12 Nov 2014

What role do local institutions of mutual security play in managing the growing economic and political uncertainties in African communities today?…


Africa and the Indian Ocean

Kerr Alexander | 8 Sep 2014

‘Performing Citizenship and Enacting Exclusion On Africa’s Indian Ocean Littoral’ is the latest special feature from The Journal of African History.…


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