Biography Dr. Gerald Mandisodza is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, where he recently completed his PhD in…
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Environmental Policies
Deconstructing Colonial Ecological Discourse through Indigenous Environmental Ethics for a Just and Sustainable African Future: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Perspective
by Mohammed Seid Ali
Introduction Global climate change poses a profound threat to the right to a clean and healthy environment, intensifying conflict, displacement, food insecurity, poverty, biodiversity loss, and ecological degradation. These negative impacts are disproportionately borne by Africa despite the continent’s negligible contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. This stark injustice exposes a deeper epistemic problem: dominant […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: “Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens”
by Dr. Brian Chaggu
“Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens” offers a sustained and well-grounded interrogation and analysis of the structural, historical, and socio-economic constraints that continue to impede democratic consolidation across Sub-Saharan Africa. Anchored in Sudan as a principal case study, the book situates national political trajectories within wider theoretical and regional […]
African Scholarship
Research-Based Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: My Reflections as an African Agribusiness and Peacebu…
Internally Displaced Persons
From Displacement to Peacebuilding: How IDP Narratives Challenge State-Led Deradicalization in Nigeria
by Yunana Ahmed
“In times of conflict, the loudest voices often drown out the most important ones, but what if true peace begins when those who suffered most get to tell their own stories?” – Tales of Turning Digital Peacebuilders (2025)1 Introduction This essay rethinks deradicalization by centering the voices of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in north-east Nigeria. […]
Crimes Against Humanity
The European Right-Wing Moral Paradox: Condemning Sudan’s Atrocities While Juggling Strategic Silence and Migration Threats
by Dr. Nagmeldin Karamalla-Gaiballa
The recent debate inside the European Parliament over past and ongoing atrocities in Sudan exposes a profound moral contradiction at the heart of contemporary European political discourse.
Ethiopia
The Faulty Foundations of Transitional Justice in Ethiopia and the Elusive Quest for Sustainable Peace
by Beza Dessalegn
Transitional justice (TJ) has been hailed as Ethiopia’s long-awaited antidote for achieving the elusive quest for sustainable peace by addressing both old and current human rights violations. In the context of the new human rights quagmires, priority was placed on TJ to ensure sustainable peace, as outlined in the Pretoria Agreement signed between the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
International Relations
Haunted Histories: American Interventionist Politics and the Sokoto Caliphate Imaginary
by Samaila Suleiman
One of the underlying forces shaping the United States’ interventionist discourses in Nigeria today is not intelligence, strategy, or local realities, but a haunted historical imaginary, featuring the Sokoto Caliphate as a living jihadist project against Nigerian Christians.
Sexual Violence
How Boko Haram Grooms Young Men and Boys Sexually for Terrorism – and its Implications for Peacebuilding