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Russia’s Africa Policy
AFRICA: Russia has been very committed to the principle of non-interference and allowed authoritarian regimes to conduct their own politics without setting any political demands for their trade or aid. But they forgave debts to several African countries while signing several military-technical agreements.
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Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad
AFRICA: In Norway, interest in the Sahel region is increasing. With Gaddafi's fall in 2011, the strength and number of rebel groups in the region increased. After the start of the global war on terror in 2001, more and more countries have become interested in this vast area. But aren't the Islamists primarily fighting against…
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A politically correct decolonisation ideology?
MODERNISATION: Nigerian professor Olùfèmi Táíwò examines power relations between former colonised and colonialists. All states struggle to adapt modern institutions to their own history, cultural context, and ideological climate. But can the demand for decolonizing language become absurd?
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Muslim elites, exercise of power, and terror
AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between present-day Cameroon and present-day Chad? Or about the pre-colonial Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu?
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She could be Italy’s next prime minister
ITALY: «I'm a woman, I'm a Christian, I'm a mother, I'm Italian, I'm on the right, I'm Giorgia.» A book devoid of political analysis?
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«… Who steals, rapes, plunders, tortures and kills»
FRANCE: After a number of «not a day without» statements, the French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour's conclusion is that the country is about to be taken over by Muslims and feminists.
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Which African intellectuals…
AFRICA: Inspired by both Bakhtin and Foucault, Stephen Chan presents Achille Mbembe's analysis of the African state in an understandable way. But let's also mention what the book leaves out.
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French warriors and Norwegian soldiers in the Sahel
MALI: If anyone in the Norwegian government would have read this book, they would never have sent soldiers to the French military force in Mali.
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Political propaganda, mixing of roles, and politicians – Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Pinochet, Gaddafi, Erdoğan…
DICTATORS: It's your connections that define you and get you employed.