A Canadian academic is ordered to pay attention, keep quiet and learn the country’s official history In the midst of my doctoral fieldwork, the Rwandan government ordered me to undergo “re-education”. I was just over...
Good Governance Africa
How inclusive is Rwanda’s reconciliation project?
The RPF government’s version of history is a tool of power rather than a story shared by all 1994 a new government came to power in Rwanda after the country had seen a genocide that claimed the lives of about three...
Righting wrongs
The five-year-old constitution seeks to restore the language, culture and traditions of a marginalised group Morocco largely avoided the turmoil seen in other North African countries during the Arab Spring protests...
‘World Banks’ provide votes
Ghana, the first African country to obtain independence from colonial powers, works to build national identity It’s an unspoken rule in Ghana that being born into an ethnic group associated with one of the two leading...
CARTOON: Ethnicity
Glaring inequality
Though the economies of many African countries are dominated by minorities, politicians often choose to accept the benefits Between “Brexit” and Donald Trump, 2016 seems to be a year of political rewards for those who...
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