Opinion – Dismantling Ongoing Realities of Colonization in Africa
it is time that Africans and those who are committed to Africa’s liberation from a colonial paradigm internalize that “only the best is good enough for Africa”.
Interview – Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui
Siba N. Grovogui discusses the importance of Black history for IR, sovereignty and Eurocentrism, Guinea and international law and his new book Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy.
Review – Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State
An important contribution to the history of nationalism in Morocco, especially US-Moroccan history.
Review – Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge
Manchanda’s book, which dissects the imperialism of colonial knowledge cultivation, is an essential read for any knowledge practitioner.
Interview – Amal Abu-Bakare
Amal Abu-Bakare discusses Black History Month, equality and racism in IR and her PhD research on counterterrorism as a racialised discourse.
Review – Authoritarian Africa: Repression, resistance, and the power of ideas
The book explores why authoritarian regimes have persisted in Africa and investigates the extent to which European colonialists can be blamed for Africa’s problems.
Trade, Industrialisation, and British Colonial Rule in India
British industrial productivity led to a century-long process of deindustrialisation. India was outcompeted by the industrial revolution in Britain
Review – Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944
This edited volume is a project of intellectual history, exploring how key texts from 1944 reflected on and helped shape a different world order.
Failing in the Reflexive and Collaborative Turns: Empire, Colonialism, Gender and the Impossibilities of North-South Collaborations
As Postcolonial Theory becomes accepted in the mainstream, how do we control the means through which academia aims to re-invent its as only seemingly more benign?
Colonial Politics of Digital Security Interfaces
When juxtaposing quantified data, digital territories, data visualization and security they end up reifying and perpetuating colonial practices and imaginaries.
