Essays

Introduction One of the formidable challenges facing Ghana as it approaches the 2024 general elections  is how the country can effectively manage its diversity against the backdrop of declining trust...

Ghana faces yet another milestone in its democratic journey in December 2024, as the country heads to the polls to elect a new President and parliamentarians for the 275-member legislative...

Dr. Keneuoe Thibello-Maphosa is a Mosotho. She acquired a PhD in Development Studies from the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies from the University of Pretoria, in South Africa....

Introduction The year 2024 marks two decades since the publication of the final report of the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone” (TRCSL). The report attempted to provide an...

William Musamba (PhD, African History) is a lecturer at Uganda Martyrs University and Makerere University, Uganda. His research interests focus on the twentieth-century history of Busoga, eastern Uganda. His most...

INTRODUCTION Irregular migration in the Southern African region, particularly in the Limpopo Province between South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, has assumed the dimension of a whole market economy that affects...

On September 27, 2024, I conducted an interview with Ambassador Allen Lou, Taiwan’s representative to Somaliland, in Hargeisa. Accompanied by Chris Lee, the office’s First Secretary, our conversation illuminated Taiwan’s...

Book Review: Transnational Activities of Women-Focused Civil Society Actors in Southern Africa by Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe and Oluwaseun Tella (ISBN 978-3-031-29536-2), 2023; London, Palgrave Macmillan, 281 pp. Introduction Transnational Activities...

Introduction Since John Rawls’ publication of “A Theory of Justice,” the notion of the “veil of ignorance” remains relevant to law-making since it has the potential to promote impartiality and...

Nigel Mxolisi Landa is a Lecturer at the Great Zimbabwe University and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Sociology...

Introduction The Joint Africa-European Union (EU) strategy launched in 2007 during the Lisbon Summit. The African Union (AU)-EU Partnership, was officially established at the first Africa-EU Summit held in Cairo...

Against Koffi Anan’s (the UN Secretary General at the time) better judgement, yet at the insistence of the US, and to save Ethiopia from a protracted war of attrition, the...