Chapter 3: Somali identity and statehood This chapter, argues that Somali identity poses a challenge to the general understanding of statehood by the “state failure” literature. This will be done using constructivist theory to analyse the impact of the defining ...
Analysing Somalia’s State Failure part I This dissertation aims to answer the question of how Somali struggle to establish a stable central authority is generated. The significance of this thesis lays in the fact that although State Failure theory is ...
As I compile this article the death toll, as a direct consequence of deadly protests in Kenya following the declaration of election results, has risen to 24. This worrisome eventuality brings back gruesome memories of the 2007 post-election violence that ...
No one really knows how big the African Diaspora is. The World Bank estimates Africans in the diaspora are spread out across the continents. In North America, there are 39 million from the African Diaspora; 113 million in Latin America; ...
A surge in American solar power startups is helping to bring off grid energy to homes across Africa. As covered in a recent article in The New Yorker, things that first world countries take for granted – including refrigerators and ...
Chad is holding a fund-raising round-table in Paris today; which will last for three days from 6 to 8 September 2017, to mobilize funds in order to obtain contributions for its newly adopted national development plan (NDP). The country adopts ...
Despite being labeled as a developing country, the beautiful African continent lies scattered with poverty-stricken countries, battling against political strife, civil wars, poor economic development policies and the embezzlement of public funding. Africa is the second largest continent in the world ...
Little did Gambians know that the 22-year brutal rule they had gone through under former tyrant Yahya Jammeh would come to an abrupt end in the December 1, 2016 presidential election. The tiny West African nation of roughly 1.8 million ...
There are no doubt that Africa’s militant Islamist groups like Ansar al-Sharia, AL-SHABAB, AQIM, The Movement for Monotheism and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and Boko Haram have undoubtedly benefited from these shifts in economic policies. If terrorism is to ...
WHAT DOES THE SUNDAY TERROR ATTACK MEAN FOR MALI—AND AFRICA? At least two people have been killed in a tourist resort popular with westerners – Le Campement – in Dougourakoro, east of the capital of Mali Bamako. A spokesman for ...