Fragility and uneven aid in the African Great Lakes
The DRC’s new president brings opportunities to rethink development in the Great Lakes region. With current aid policies charged with fuelling political instability, Léopold Ghins ...more
Money guards and hospital hostages in the DRC
Conducting research in new socio-economic spaces can bring unexpected challenges. For two researchers in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo their identities as white ...more
A never-ending story? Cyclical mobilisation and demobilisation in the eastern DRC
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, demobilisation programmes aim to reintegrate combatants into everyday life. But there are often blurred boundaries between what is considered ...more
How diverse is your reading list? (Probably not very...)
The dominance of scholars from the global North is widespread, and this extends to the student curriculum. Data on reading lists shows large authorial imbalances, ...more
African and Development Studies: Scholarship in need of its own replication crisis
By exploring the decolonisation of knowledge production in African and Development Studies, Laura Mann delved into the global North-South divide and academia's need for a ...more
From Dahabshiil to World Remit: Why FinTech is transforming Somalia
Zaineb Majoka explores the evolving world of mobile money in Somalia. Somalia is fast becoming a cashless society through innovations in financial services (FinTech) in ...more
What is the bushmeat crisis and why should we care?
Thibaut Vandervelden discusses how the growing appeal of bushmeat is destroying the second most biodiverse forest in the world. Over a period of 12,000 years, ...more
Diaspora diaries and football politics
As with football, Africa risks losing its best and brightest to more advanced and monied nations, says Ronak Gopaldas. Football and politics have always enjoyed a fascinating ...more
Spirits on trial? The case of Dominic Ongwen in the International Criminal Court
In this article, Kristof Titeca argues that although international law claims to apply universal justice, it still seems underequipped in dealing with spirits and the ...more
What ghost rape teaches us about what rape actually is
In her recent article, Holly Porter explores what rape is. The article suggests ways outsiders wanting to understand a context deeply impacted by decades of war ...more
