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A successful genocide denial campaign sets the ground for recurrence. In the case of Rwanda, the denial of the successive anti-Tutsi genocidal pogroms emboldened perpetrators and enabled a foreseeable genocide in 1994.
For many African countries, the U.S. is not an important export destination, which means the continent could well pretend there is no such country as the U.S. in their trade analysis and planning.
In both Zimbabwe and Angola, the economic, political, and social fallout from the second Congo war was severe, sowing long-term instability and governance challenges
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa
France has overstayed, yes—but more damningly, it has miscalculated, blundering its way through coup after coup, betting on the wrong horses time and again.
The pursuit of narrow national interests in the context of an unstable region is not likely to produce sustainable peace
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
If Africans really want to end this conflict, they must sideline the merchants of death, in whatever form they come
Perhaps the biggest error has been to see DRC as a country of just “people of ndombolo” and nothing else.
Emancipation from stereotypes requires a collective commitment by Africans to see each other as multifaceted, evolving individuals rather than static, preconceived notions
A successful genocide denial campaign sets the ground for recurrence. In the case of Rwanda, the denial of the successive anti-Tutsi genocidal pogroms emboldened perpetrators and enabled a foreseeable genocide in 1994.
For many African countries, the U.S. is not an important export destination, which means the continent could well pretend there is no such country as the U.S. in their trade analysis and planning.
In both Zimbabwe and Angola, the economic, political, and social fallout from the second Congo war was severe, sowing long-term instability and governance challenges
Belgium seems determined to mirror France’s ‘exit strategy’ from West Africa
France has overstayed, yes—but more damningly, it has miscalculated, blundering its way through coup after coup, betting on the wrong horses time and again.
The pursuit of narrow national interests in the context of an unstable region is not likely to produce sustainable peace
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
If Africans really want to end this conflict, they must sideline the merchants of death, in whatever form they come
Perhaps the biggest error has been to see DRC as a country of just “people of ndombolo” and nothing else.
Emancipation from stereotypes requires a collective commitment by Africans to see each other as multifaceted, evolving individuals rather than static, preconceived notions
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more