Track Changes: Asking Questions about Gendered Representations of Culture,...
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) provoked by each...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Debating Africa’s Needs
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) provoked by each...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Who Says What? Contestations on New H.I.V Drug Trials in Africa
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) provoked by each...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Reports of Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers Meets “Romantic Rights”
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) provoked by each...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Neoliberalism and Its Hollow Victories! / Le Néolibéralisme et...
In French/Pour Français In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Countering a Limited Perspective on Mental Illness
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) [...] The post Track...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Mental Health Through the Perspective of African Traditional...
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) [...] The post Track...
View ArticleTrack Changes: What daughters are worth
The Los Angeles Times published an article in July by Robyn Dixon – Child brides sold for cows: The price of being a girl in South Sudan – that [...] The post Track Changes: What daughters are worth...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Measuring Good Governance
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question [...] The post Track Changes:...
View ArticleTrack Changes: What is Seen in African Photography
We at The CIHA Blog from time to time highlight problematic representations about Africa and Africans. We were initially heartened to see this story in New York Times, until we [...] The post Track...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Recognizing and Amplifying the Politics of Famine
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) [...] The post Track...
View ArticleTrack Changes: “New Yorker Redesigns Her Life to Help Kids in Ghana”
By: Edwin Adjei When I first saw the title of this recent article by the American National Public Radio (NPR), I assumed the “New Yorker” who was being featured was [...] The post Track Changes: “New...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Jeffrey Gettleman’s “Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming...
By: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine Now that Jeffrey Gettleman has published a memoir about his tenure as the New York Times’s East Africa correspondent that is widely viewed [...] The...
View ArticleMore problematic reporting on Africa by the New York Times
In this post, Titilope F. Ajayi from the University of Ghana builds on a recent CIHA Blog series (with posts by Uduak Amimo, Washington Post and Professor Cecelia [...] The post More problematic...
View ArticlePart 2: Migrations of the Holy: Sacramentals or Charms? A South African...
First, we would like to say Happy Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day to all of our readers! Today we are posting the second half of Thabang Nkadimeng’s piece, Migrations of the Holy. Read...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Kenya and the New York Times redux
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we critique online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide questions or thoughts provoked by each...
View ArticleTrack Changes: Perpetuating Legacies of Racism in Medical Experimentation on...
By Elham Kazemi, CIHA Editorial Assistant and PhD Candidate, University of California, Irvine Today’s post delves further into the video that was aired on LCI (La Chaîne Info) in April and caused a...
View ArticleNormalized Abnormality: Post-Colonialism in the World Today with...
The Critical Investigation of Humanitarianism in Africa blog (CIHA) and the Africana Institute for Creation, Recognition, and Elevation (AICRE) had the pleasure of hosting, Normalized Abnormality:...
View ArticleUnique Opportunity! See the film “When Women Speak! // Occasion unique!...
Introduction by Ebenezer Bosomprah, Luce Graduate Fellow and PhD student at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.
View ArticleSteve de Gruchy Memorial Lecture – TOWARDS A RENEWED ECUMENISM: LESSONS &...
Introductory note by CIHA Blog Editorial Assistant, Bangirana Albert Billy: The CIHA Blog yet again brings you this year’s Professor Steve De Gruchy memorial lecture.
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