Identity in Conflict: Race and Violent Crime in South Africa in the Context...
By Ethan D. Steyn - The issue of violence and ethnicity in criminal and war environments has many facets, and this article attempts to contextualize forms of violent crime in South Africa that involve...
View ArticleThe State of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Marissa B. Goldfaden - The country presently known as the DRC initially achieved independence from its Belgian colonizer in 1960. Tensions were escalating between Prime Minister Lumumba and...
View ArticleThe Influence of Social, Political, and Economic Factors on the Development...
By Melissa JL. Alvaro Mutolo - Eventually these bantu-speaking people would come to populate and dominate practically all the arable land in South Africa (Prozesky 1995:5). As ancestors of the Zulu,...
View ArticleSomali Refugees in Kenya: Security Deficiencies and Public Health Concerns as...
By Samuel L. Aronson - Somalia is home to roughly 9 million people, the overwhelming majority of whom are ethnic Somalis (UN Statistics Division 2010). The country has been plagued with conflict and...
View ArticleSomali Piracy: Causes and Consequences
By Miles G. Kellerman - These accusations are actually quite legitimate. The United Nations estimates that illegal fishing companies from Europe and Asia rob Somali coastlines of over $300 million a...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Rape During Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Elizabeth Dettke - "I rape because of the need. After that I feel like a man." These are the words of a rebel soldier who ruthlessly roams the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in...
View ArticleHot Cocoa: Agricultural Economics and the Ivorian Civil Wars
By John Biberman - The recent International Criminal Court arraignment of former president Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity marks the culmination of a decade of conflict in Côte...
View ArticleA Call for Ecologically Informed Policy to Address Sex Work: Evidence From Kenya
By Léa Steinacker - With the recognition that sex workers constitute a key population at higher risk for the acquisition and dissemination of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has come an...
View ArticleDemocracy Up Close in Somaliland: Reflections of an International Election...
By Dustin R. Turin - In May 1991, Somaliland emerged as a self-declared independent state in the aftermath of the failure and subsequent collapse of Siyad Barre’s Somalia. Although ethnically and...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Continenent: The Story of the US's Return to Africa
By Marina Tolchinsky - When President Eisenhower created the Bureau for African Affairs within the U.S. State Department in 1958, the intent was clear: to prevent the spread of communism. Never before...
View ArticleNatural Resources and Prolonged Conflict: The Case of Sierra Leone
By Nina Assadi - Why did Sierra Leone experience such a protracted civil war between 1991 and 2002? Sierra Leone has been beset with challenges since achieving independence from Britain in 1961, in...
View ArticleIndia and Nigeria: Similar Colonial Legacies, Vastly Different Trajectories:...
By Caroline Cohn - The nations of Nigeria and India both have exceptionally diverse populations, endured the deliberate divide-and-rule strategies executed by British colonizers who sought thereby to...
View ArticleHIV-Positive Youth Empowerment in Swaziland: An Evaluation of the Social...
By Sahil Aggarwal - UNAIDS reports the antenatal HIV prevalence rate—the prevalence of HIV in unborn children—to be approximately 38% in Swaziland, Africa (UNAIDS 2012), the highest rate in the world...
View ArticleU.S. Policy Toward Africa: Application of U.S. Africa Command Signals...
By James DeTemple - The U.S. has a responsibility to defend its security interests globally and be ready respond to emerging crises anywhere in the world at a moment's notice. The global U.S. military...
View ArticleBoda Boda: The Impact of Motorbike Taxi Service in Rural Uganda
By Gian Luca Gamberini - Rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa often suffer from a lack of access to transportation. This study analyzes the impact of a motorbike taxi service called Boda Boda in two...
View ArticleShould AGOA be Renewed in 2015?
By Benjamin S. Osenbach - On May 18th, 2000, the United States enacted the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), dramatically expanding trade between itself and Sub-Saharan Africa over the...
View ArticleFrom Retribution to Restoration in Sierra Leone: Fambul Tok's Drive to Heal...
By Pratik Raghu - Between 1991 and 2002, the small West African coastal state of Sierra Leone was rocked by a brutal civil war, which killed, injured, displaced, and traumatized millions of men, women,...
View ArticleTransitional Justice and Religion: An Examination of Faith-Based Actors in...
By Maddie Powell - First, the paper examines civil society’s response to post-election violence that occured in 2007-2008, with a key focus on the response of faith-based actors. In this instance, the...
View ArticleThe Resource Curse in Nigeria: Comparing the Security of Offshore and Onshore...
By Mary L. Kleinpeter - Developing states with large natural resource industries have an inclination to become over-reliant on one source of capital, causing other industries to fail, promoting...
View ArticleAngola, 1990-2000: Oil, Democracy, and a "Successful Failed State"
By Eric Wilcox - Four decades after independence from Portugal, Angola remains a country with significant barriers to good governance and social development. Although the state's constitution...
View ArticleRethinking the Role of Cooperatives in African Development
By Cynthia Kwakyewah - In their search for a new development paradigm, many African governments and international organizations have reverted to cooperatives, a distinct business model that manifest a...
View ArticleThe Role of Female Quotas and Female Activism in Passing Gender Based...
By Gina Starfield - In the 1900s, gender-based violence was commonplace throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Surveys conducted in the region revealed that over 40% of Ugandan, Zambian, and Kenyan women, and...
View ArticleDevelopment Discourse and the "Conduct of Conduct:" Promoting Good Governance...
By Samuel W. Singler - Following the failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in the 1980s, and the liberal triumphalism caused by the end of the Cold War, development discourse underwent a...
View ArticleImagining Ethiopia: The Contrasting Views of Ethiopian Power, Progress, and...
By Benyam T. Alemu - The ancient civilization of Ethiopia has captivated the West and served, across centuries, as an inspiration for much of Africa. As a regional power in Eastern Africa, the nation...
View ArticleApplying the Centrifugal Organizational Model for Pastoralists and Other...
By EliSabeth Noe - For the past four decades, pastoralist activities have been pushed to marginal areas in several regions of Ethiopia. This change was initiated by the Agrarian Land Reform...
View ArticleEffects of Cultural Factors on AIDS Epidemics in Sub-Saharan African...
By Lee Walter - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has ravaged sub-Saharan Africa in the decades since its first recorded case. The disease has reached epidemic levels in many regions, with...
View ArticleWorlds of Potential: Funding for Community-Based Organizations in Nairobi, Kenya
By Emily Hoerner - Despite a proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) in Kibera, the largest informal settlement in Kenya, conditions for...
View ArticleThe Effects of Institutional and Political Instability on Civil War in South...
By Michael DeFeo - Political and military instability plague South Sudan, but economic depression and mass starvation have resulted from the civil war as well. Cutting off oil production sent the...
View ArticleBefore Drones: U.S. Covert Action in Africa During the Congo Crisis
By Drew A. Calcagno - A man named Patrice Lumumba led the nation's independence struggle, starting as the head of a local anti-colonial movement and eventually growing to be the first...
View ArticleNewspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement: A Constructivist Argument
By Esme Trahair - On February 14th, 1965, just one week before he was assassinated, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Detroit. He spoke about his beliefs concerning segregation and civil rights, and made...
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