Sierra Leone
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After Oil
OIL: Boima Tucker travels from a ministerial stage to an informal settlement in Mathare, tracing how Africa's shift away from oil still runs on old patterns of who benefits and who absorbs the cost.
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«You may end up with the only peace – being the peace of the graveyard.»
INTERVIEW: We are talking with the previous Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the man who could have been prime minister in Britain, about current issues – like military build-up, Ukraine, Israel, climate justice and labour, security, democracy, citizen assemblies, and not least of all, hope for the future.
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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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From riches to rags: Living the life among the Sierra Leonean elite to the American supermarket
SIERRA LEONE: Solomon Juxton-Smith is working in a supermarket in New York, resembling perhaps any middle-class American. But before this life he had another. He lived in Sierra Leone and his father was the ruler of the country.
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Warlords’ post-democracies
AFRICA: How do the African rebel leaders succeed politically after the conflicts have subsided? Ten African scientists have looked into the matter.
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Something is missing
It dishes up the facts but it doesn’t reflect on them, writes Willemien Sanders.
