Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem

At the historic summit of the African Union in Accra in July 2007, President Museveni was one of the surprise leaders of ‘pro-gradualism’, who made it easy for the others, principally Thabo Mbeki, interested only in Africa and Africans as markets rather than as peoples, to gain their pyrrhic vict

Tajudeen Abdul Raheem surveys the state and status of names in Africa, in particular the legacy of Western colonialism, and identity politics around 'Arab' names.