Over a century of deeply racist Western literature continues to influence notions of ‘blackness’ and what it means to be an African When I wrote my master’s paper at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia in the...
Alain Tschudin
Creole rising
Pidgin and creole emerged to serve trade, but what of their longer-term use and acceptance? I lived in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, my house had a collection of books on the shelves on one wall. There were copies...
Between a rock and a hard place
Childhood links to the motherland seem to require a certain patriotism, yet Swaziland is troubled by a self-serving ruler From a young age I came to admire the notions of “for God and country” and, of course, “Don’t...
Re-education for reconciliation: participant observations on Rwanda’s ingando
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...
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...
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