International Affairs Archives

Lessons of Discord The Repressive Dimensions of Pan-African Nationalism

Brooks MarmonNovember 11, 2021

Pan-Africanist political organization in the 1950s and 1960s played a mutually reinforcing role in driving the advocacy that ended both colonial rule in Africa and legal racial discrimination in the American South. Read more.

AngolaGhanaOctober/November 2020South AfricaZimbabwe

What #FreeJacobZuma Exposed Jacob Zuma and the Undoing of South Africa

Boetumelo Julianne NyasuluOctober 25, 2021

Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma had a presidency coloured by a messy personal life and corruption charges. Read more.

October/November 2021South AfricaZimbabwe

From Well-Worn Fatigues to Well-Tailored Suits Joseph Garba’s ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’

Afolabi AdekaiyaojaSeptember 22, 2021

In ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’, the late General Joseph Garba, one of Nigeria’s earliest foreign ministers, presents a case for the tacit but present ‘Big Brother’ role that Nigeria has sought to play across Africa. Read more.

AngolaAugust/September 2021Editors Picks: Independence DayEthiopiaNigeria

Japá Young Nigerians’ Search for Prosperity and Its Effect on Political Participation in Nigeria

John BabalolaJuly 30, 2021

For many young Nigerians, relocating abroad with little or no intent to return has become a life goal. Read more.

June/July 2021

Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ‘Sozaboy’ What War Literature Teaches Us About the Political Economy of Violence

Ndidi AkaharaJuly 28, 2021

Through ‘Sozaboy’, Ken Saro-Wiwa explores how war on the African continent has come to function as a central aspect of political economy in the neoliberal world. Read more.

June/July 2021Nigeria

Traditions and Trust Medical Ethics in the African Context

Busayo AkinmojuJuly 19, 2021

Most Nigerians don't have health insurance, and medical services in Nigeria are notoriously underserved. So how do the country's poorest people get healthcare? Read more.

June/July 2021

The Enduring Life of Exploitation On Modern Slavery in Africa

Lennon Chido Mhishi, Wendy Asquith, Alex Balch, Helen Bryant and Charles ForsdickJune 7, 2021

In the contemporary moment, we are becoming increasingly aware of how the many structural, social, political and economic inequities that underpin exploitation in all its guises have been deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more.

June/July 2021

When ‘Modern Slavery’ Meant Colonial Rule Nigeria and Panya (Fernando Po) in the 1960s

Enrique MartinoJune 7, 2021

The colonial history of Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea and south-eastern Nigeria makes it clear that the new techniques of ‘modern slavery’ varied from deception and entrapment of unsuspecting migrants to harshly enforced debt bondage and penal sanctions for non-fulfilment of contracts. Read more.

Equatorial GuineaJune/July 2021Nigeria

Africa in Perspective Migration, Mobility and Modern Slavery in Africa

Prince Fater AuduJune 7, 2021

The ongoing economic crises in Africa and the ease in mobility occasioned by free movement policies and protocols have made Africans increasingly vulnerable to migration, therefore, allowing different forms of modern slavery to thrive. Read more.

June/July 2021

Photo for our essay on decolonizing human trafficking

Decolonizing Human Trafficking Alternative Approaches to Understanding Modern Slavery

Oyinkansola WumkesJune 7, 2021

Acknowledging that most countries with the highest trafficking rates are former colonies opens up new ways of understanding and potentially eradicating human trafficking. Read more.

June/July 2021