Institute of African Studies core faculty member Mahmood Mamdani, on how South Sudan's new peace agreement will divide the country into a collection of tribes and disenfranchise minorities in each tribal homeland.
Reblocking of informal settlements can be development in reverse, argues Jared Sacks for GroundUp.
Professor Séverine Autesserre interviewed in a recent New York Times article and photo essay on the rise in mass killings in the D.R.C.
Séverine Autesserre included in a recent profile of Carnegie Fellows, discussing the intersection of scholarship and advocacy.
Professor Séverine Autesserre interviewed in an article exploring the unexpected effects of Dodd-Frank on the lives of miners in the DRC. The conflict-minerals law’s opponents include progressive journalists and academics who say the rule rests on an overly simplistic analysis of a complex crisis.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne a pour première singularité d'être à la fois musulman, philosophe, démocrate et rationaliste. Peu connu du grand public, ce professeur à l'université de Columbia à New York est à écouter, à un moment difficile des relations entre l'Occident et l'islam.
On March 14, 2018, Professor Abosede George spoke with Linda Heywood on her latest book in the Lapidus Center Presents: Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen at the Schomburg Center. A video of the event is available in the accompanying link .
Shamira is a first-year MPA candidate at SIPA and is particularly interested in urban development, education and job-creation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The international box office hit "Black Panther" is largely set in the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda. The African nation may be a fabrication, but it didn't come out of nowhere. Many of the movie's sets and costumes were inspired by actual people and places in the African continent. Abosede George, a history professor in Barnard College's Africana Studies department, spoke to InsideEdition.com about the real world origins of Wakanda.
Face à l’ébullition de la scène intellectuelle francophone ces dernières semaines, notamment après les prises de position d'Alain Mabanckou, Abdourahman Waberi et Achille Mbembe, le philosophe sénégalais Souleymane Bachir Diagne plaide au nom d'une francophonie qui permet de choisir, et de faire communauté.
Morenikeji Akinade is a third year JD student at Columbia Law School. She was born in Philadelphia but raised largely in Lagos, Nigeria.
Video is now available from a conference held in Dakar to honor the work of IAS core faculty member Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne.