Sometimes I read about art projects dealing with socially conscious themes and think "wow, this shows a real lack of self-awareness." That's how I felt when reading about this: Nick.
This very interesting profile of the culinary scholar Michael Twitty reinforces one key point for any reader--that African influences on the United States are basically still ignored. African-American influences on.
The rapid privatization of land is Africa is throwing millions of poor farmers off their land. This is thanks to the African middle class, western companies, and large Chinese investors..
A friend of mine pointed me toward this 1976 Australian TV documentary about the nation of Rhodesia in its last years of trying to maintain its white nationalist government. Very.
On the latest Foreign Entanglements Laura Seay and I talk Mali:
The following is a guest post by Jonathan Powell. Dr. Powell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. His research focuses on conflict processes,.
A lot have people have been asking "Why now?" for more robust measures against the LRA. The LRA has been operating for two decades, and this represents the biggest US.
A few brief thoughts on the Kony mission. David Dayen: The Administration’s claimed legal justification comes from a law called the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of.
