[Excerpted from the book Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press, 2008).] The one issue that remains the…
Perhaps it is because of the civil war, reported to have caused the deaths of more than 3 million people in the…
In his book ‘Decolonising the Mind’, Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2006) gives the false impression that decolonising one’s mind is simply a matter…
Vilwar (2003) argues that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is possibly the most mineral rich place on earth. The DRC holds…
In 1997, Mobutu Sese Seko, who had been the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 32 years, was toppled…
On May, 25, 2008, the New York Times reported that Jean-Pierre Bemba, the rebel leader of the Movement for Liberation of Congo…
Times have changed. The colonial project in Africa is no longer carried out with a gun and a boot and a baton. …
Often, NGOs in Africa are seen as agents of democratic change, ‘significant actors in the democratisation process through helping to create plural…
The xenophobic violence which erupted in Johannesburg two weeks ago has so far claimed the lives of 42 people and has resulted…
In this second installment of the essay on the coordinator class, I want to use the history of colonialism in Africa to…
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