It was fleeing refugees, marching armies, camp hustlers, pop singers — and yes, even terrorists — who smuggled Kiswahili into East Africa’s bloodstream. A story of accidents, not design.
This is no sentimental homecoming. It is a power play in a high-stakes game, in a country where such games often end in blood
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
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
Perhaps the biggest error has been to see DRC as a country of just “people of ndombolo” and nothing else.
When it comes to language, everyone is at war front. The words they choose are as loaded as the guns and mortars
“In the Sahel region, external powers or regional clubs like ECOWAS can either put the brakes on or pour petrol on the fire”
There’s a big contradiction: while voter disaffection in Africa seems higher than ever, simultaneously, people are generally less radical and prone to violence
Is it a criminal enterprise? There is no consensus. Some folks see it as the thing that waters the tree of African integration
Africa must learn from the coloniser. There’s a reason white folks rarely go on rants about their culture being appropriated.
It was fleeing refugees, marching armies, camp hustlers, pop singers — and yes, even terrorists — who smuggled Kiswahili into East Africa’s bloodstream. A story of accidents, not design.
This is no sentimental homecoming. It is a power play in a high-stakes game, in a country where such games often end in blood
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
Strip away all the distractions, and the war in eastern DRC boils down to a battle between cows and minerals.
Perhaps the biggest error has been to see DRC as a country of just “people of ndombolo” and nothing else.
When it comes to language, everyone is at war front. The words they choose are as loaded as the guns and mortars
“In the Sahel region, external powers or regional clubs like ECOWAS can either put the brakes on or pour petrol on the fire”
There’s a big contradiction: while voter disaffection in Africa seems higher than ever, simultaneously, people are generally less radical and prone to violence
Is it a criminal enterprise? There is no consensus. Some folks see it as the thing that waters the tree of African integration
Africa must learn from the coloniser. There’s a reason white folks rarely go on rants about their culture being appropriated.
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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
