The Dangers of Private Policing: Lessons from South Africa
The recent physical assault of French music producer Michel Zecler makes one thing clear: police brutality is a transnational issue. This year, incidents of pol...
Category: Africa
Ethiopian Tigray Crisis Threatens Stability in Horn of Africa
Escalating violence between the national army and those loyal to the northern Tigray region has brought the threat of civil war to Ethiopia and instability to t...
#EndSARS: Amplifying Young Nigerian Voices
On October 11, 2020, the Nigerian police force announced the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a corrupt police unit known as SARS. The announcemen...
The Beijing Consensus and African Autonomy
The Beijing Consensus and African Autonomy Abstract When trying to uncover the effects of Chi...
Shifting Justitial-Prophetic Roles of Churches and the Unfinished Business of National Reconciliation in South Africa
When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we h...
Life Beyond the Trash: The Story of E-waste in Agbogbloshie
Sub-Saharan Africa Desk Written by: Adoma Addo, Berkeley College ’23 Accra is a city of contradiction, from the kente-patterned skyscrapers in Airport Cit...