Arts & Books

The timing could not have been more poignant: as South African president Jacob Zuma announced to the world that Nelson Mandela, the father of his nation, had breathed his last, Mandela’s daughters, Zenani and Z

She is in her twenties, confident and good-looking. She applied for a job as a presenter at a local television station in Sudan. Following her interview, the station called her and told her: “You did very well, though you have one problem. You are too dark… but this could easily be fixed”.

What were the real aims of the Western Powers behind the NATO intervention in Libya in 2011? What inspired the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi that started in Benghazi and that gave France, Britain and the US the opportunity to pose as the saviour of the people?

Artistic expressions produced within periphery communities originate from everyday cultural manifestations. Theatre, music, dance and painting are interlinked to popular society, sacred and street festivities, story telling, and street vendor chants.

The book paints a vivid picture of economist Jeffrey Sachs’ ambitious Millennium Villages Project and highlights the tension that lies beneath not just this but arguably every “development” endeavour.

Literary translation is a highly meta-linguistic [1] transaction requiring not only perspicacity but also mental flexibility, the more so because far from being a mindless replacement of lexical items in the source text by equivalent linguistic elements in the target text (Catford, 1966), transla

“The power of a framework comes from its ability to focus on the most important elements at the exclusion of the rest and in so doing in providing a way of thinking about these elements, how they function, how they have come about, and how they change” – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson [1]

New book to shed light on India’s Africa policy

For most scholars and foreign policy specialists in Francophone Africa, India seems to be a blind spot, in the study of the relationships between Africa and the emerging powers, and almost all their attention is dedicated to China.