November 25, 2020
Building back a better Africa policy should not mean going back to old ways President Trump’s overt contempt for Africans is encapsulated in his famously crass remark about African countries….
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August 30, 2020
Divest from violent policing and endless wars: Invest instead in a new social contract The interactions between policing, racism, and the U.S. military vary enormously across time and place. In…
October 24, 2020
Overhauling US foreign policy: The bitter fights ahead The most consequential election year in most of our lifetimes has featured stark crises unspooling against a backdrop of vigorous activist mobilizations…
April 8, 2021
The failure of counterterrorism in Africa is revealed On March 10, the United States formally designated the insurgent group in northern Mozambique as a foreign terrorist organization. Although the group…
December 14, 2021
US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea In the first Cold War, the Truman Doctrine laid out the premises for prioritizing an anti-communist crusade that lasted an…
June 6, 2022
The war in Ukraine through an African lens African policymakers and civil society opinion makers, like their counterparts around the world, share no consensus on the war in Ukraine. Its…