In the Kivu provinces of the Eastern Congo, permanent semi-urban towns emerge from the protracted presence of refugees and internally displaced persons. Using the example of Kitchanga in North Kivu, Gillian Mathys and Karen Büscher (Ghent University) show the importance of such towns as important spaces in the politics of mobility, presence and return in a context of violent […]
As the final few hours of 2018 dwindle away, let’s look back at 2018 and discover the best-read Africa@LSE blog posts of the year.
Transformation euphoria in the Horn of Africa – As political transformation occurs across the Horn of Africa at an unprecedented pace, Abukar Arman provides a comprehensive analysis of the rapidly changing situation.
The unenviable situation of Tigreans […]
Gloria Kiconco explores the multiplicity of what it means for displaced people and refugees to return home.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
I am a Ugandan writer; specifically a poet, essayist, and an arts and culture journalist.
Here is where I join the Politics of Return research project.
It is a few minutes past midday […]
Madeleine Issitt narrates how Aloh Francis emerged from conflict-affected northern Uganda to develop a football career that took him to Vietnam.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
More than half a century ago, six footballers from the Acholi region of northern Uganda were selected to play in the Ugandan national football team that travelled […]
Ife Piankhi details how she has been inspired by the methods of the artists participating in the Politics of Return artist residency.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
The artist residency at 32 Degrees East in Kampala aims to explore the dynamics of how asylum seekers, internally-displaced people and refugees return home.
As Professor Tim […]
LSE’s Joanna Lewis reports from a World Refugee Day event which showcased the vital role of refugees in rebuilding their home communities.
“I am here to contribute. I am here to give back. I am here to give a hand to refugees to help rebuild their lives. “
These were just some of powerful statements delivered by Ms Shukri Adan, a […]
Almost twenty years on from the decade of voluntary repatriation, Jolien Tegenbos and Koen Vlassenroot explore how scholarly understanding of the process of ‘return’ has evolved and how it has largely been determined by policy priorities.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
Every minute, 20 people are displaced worldwide. The most popular and internationally […]
Although Uganda has received much acclaim for the hospitable treatment it extends to refugees, it has recently become embroiled in controversy, with the scandal reaching the highest levels of both in country-UNHCR and the Ugandan government. In this blog post, Charles Ogeno and Ryan Joseph O’Byrne examine locals’ reactions to the recent influx of South Sudanese refugees and sheds […]
Four years after systematic ethnic cleansing led Central African Republic’s Muslim community to flee to neighbouring countries, Enrica Picco explores the challenges facing returnees.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
At the beginning of the current crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), from late 2013 to early 2014, systematic ethnic cleansing was perpetrated […]
A photo essay by Kara Blackmore on the “Understanding South Sudan: Questions of Knowledge and Representation” held at LSE on 30 November 2017.
This article is part of our #LSEReturn series, exploring themes around Displacement and Return.
“Let this dialogue be merely a punctuation mark in the ongoing conversation around today’s South Sudan and the broader crisis of representation in the cosmopolitan […]
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