
Africa’s epidemic of mutual ignorance: Lessons from the Horn and East Africa – PART I
East Africans know so little about the Horn of Africa and Africans in the Horn know so little about East Africa
East Africans know so little about the Horn of Africa and Africans in the Horn know so little about East Africa
Dans ces nombreux moments de morbidité, le tueur n’est pas une personne ou une entité, mais de nombreuses personnes au cœur dur, provenant de différents endroits, utilisant différentes méthodologies, toutes animées par un motif unique : l’exploitation et l’extraction
Simply documenting—however exhaustively—the numbers and conditions under which the deaths of migrant workers occur is deliberately, cleverly, telling a half story
Like a father endearing himself to children in a difficult marriage, the U.S. President Joseph Biden was speaking cash and more cash
Les acteurs politiques du monde occidental considèrent l’Afrique comme un terrain de chasse. Elle n’est qu’une proie, sur laquelle ils ont le droit absolu d’exploitation à l’infini.
Whatever their cultural or political identity—Left or Right, Conservative or Progressive, Far-Right or Far-Left—political actors in the western world see Africa as a hunting ground
If the pillage we are witnessing on the African continent—mostly from the 1980s-onwards—is worse than the exploitation of the 1884-1960s, why is the continent not up in arms?
If Shakespeare were still alive today, and still writing, he would be bamboozled by the unusualness of Queen Elizabeth II
If our problems are access to healthcare, education, women empowerment, infrastructural development, poverty et cetera, a good and smooth election is not the response
It should be understood as colonial to insist that the peasants in the African countryside were poor and thus needed to live their lands and go to labour in industrial parks for their food and sustenance
East Africans know so little about the Horn of Africa and Africans in the Horn know so little about East Africa
Dans ces nombreux moments de morbidité, le tueur n’est pas une personne ou une entité, mais de nombreuses personnes au cœur dur, provenant de différents endroits, utilisant différentes méthodologies, toutes animées par un motif unique : l’exploitation et l’extraction
Simply documenting—however exhaustively—the numbers and conditions under which the deaths of migrant workers occur is deliberately, cleverly, telling a half story
Like a father endearing himself to children in a difficult marriage, the U.S. President Joseph Biden was speaking cash and more cash
Les acteurs politiques du monde occidental considèrent l’Afrique comme un terrain de chasse. Elle n’est qu’une proie, sur laquelle ils ont le droit absolu d’exploitation à l’infini.
Whatever their cultural or political identity—Left or Right, Conservative or Progressive, Far-Right or Far-Left—political actors in the western world see Africa as a hunting ground
If the pillage we are witnessing on the African continent—mostly from the 1980s-onwards—is worse than the exploitation of the 1884-1960s, why is the continent not up in arms?
If Shakespeare were still alive today, and still writing, he would be bamboozled by the unusualness of Queen Elizabeth II
If our problems are access to healthcare, education, women empowerment, infrastructural development, poverty et cetera, a good and smooth election is not the response
It should be understood as colonial to insist that the peasants in the African countryside were poor and thus needed to live their lands and go to labour in industrial parks for their food and sustenance
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