AFRICAN POLITICS (PSC 321)

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  Nicholas Kerr

  

  Wakanda, Afrofuturism, and Decolonizing International Relations Scholarship

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  by Yolande Bouka for Denver Dialogues Next week, Marvel Studios will release one of its most anticipated films in the studio’s ten-year history. Black …

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  Nicholas Kerr

  

  The choice that could save South Africa, or wreck it

  The Economist

  SOUTH AFRICA’S Constitutional Court may be the world’s most emotionally powerful building. The courtroom is built with the bricks of the Old Fort …

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  Nicholas Kerr

  

  Africa’s ageing leaders don’t know when to quit

  The Economist

  But after the sudden fall of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe some are beginning to wonder if Mr Museveni too might suffer a similar fate. Nor is he alone. …

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  Nicholas Kerr

  

  It’s time for international election monitors to start doing their job

  The Washington Post

  Nic Cheeseman is a professor of democracy at the University of Birmingham and the author of “Democracy in Africa.” Todd Moss is senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Jeffrey Smith is executive director of …

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  Nicholas Kerr

  

  Nigeria, DR Congo, Kenya and Uganda have the world’s worst police forces

  Quartz - Yomi Kazeem

  The already-sullied reputation of some of Africa’s largest police forces is in for more beating. Of 127 countries measured in the 2016 World Internal Security and Police Index, Nigeria’s police force ranks as the worst, just below DR Congo, Kenya and Uganda to make up the bottom four. The index, a …

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  Nicholas Kerr

  

  WHY I AM CORRUPT | In Defense of Nigerians by Ayo Sogunro

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  Nigerians are corrupt, they say. I am a Nigerian and I know why I am corrupt. I am corrupt because I am hungry. Because I need the food, the whole …