AfricaFocus Bulletin
October 23, 2020 Nigeria: A New Generation Steps Up
“The protest is for our lives, it’s for our future. We want SARS to
end but SARS is just the beginning. They should just wait for us.
We’re not quiet anymore.” [This response appears] typical of the
critical mass of protesters who are around 18-22 years old, are
particularly fearless, and are protesting for the first time. -
Ayodeji Rotinwa, Deputy Editor of African Arguments
October 13, 2020 Africa/Global: The Future's Not in Plastics
“The petrochemical industry is already facing record-low plastic
feedstock prices as a result of massive overcapacity. And yet, it
plans to expand supply for virgin plastics use by a quarter at a
cost of at least $400 billion in the next 5 years, risking huge
losses for investors. The plastics industry is a bloated behemoth,
ripe for disruption. … Meanwhile, 36% of plastic is used only
once, 40% ends up polluting the environment and less than 10% is
actually recycled.” - Carbon Tracker Initiative
September 28, 2020 USA/Global: Millions Displaced by US Post-9/11 Wars
“Wartime displacement (alongside war deaths and injuries) must be
central to any analysis of the post-9/11 wars and their short- and
long-term consequences. Displacement also must be central to any
possible consideration of the future use of military force by the
United States or others. Ultimately, displacing 37 million—and
perhaps as many as 59 million—raises the question of who bears
responsibility for repairing the damage inflicted on those
displaced.” - Brown University Costs of War Project
September 23, 2020 USA/Global: Overhauling U.S. Foreign Policy
The most consequential election year in most of our lifetimes has
featured stark crises unspooling against a backdrop of vigorous
activist mobilizations and simmering public outrage. While the
first essential step for progressives is to prevent the reelection
of President Trump, that will not be enough. We need fundamental
change rather than a return to the status quo ante.
September 14, 2020 India/Africa: Common Threads of Kanga and Vitenge
The new book Common Threads (along with an accompanying video, both
open access), explores the ties that bind India and Africa through
the material medium of cloth, from antiquity to the present. Cloth
made in India has been sold across African markets for millennia,
by Indian, African, and European traders. ... Most significantly,
it highlights the role of African consumers in defining the
evolution of these genres of fabric, and the centrality of people-to-people connections in sustaining the continued cosmopolitanism
of these transoceanic connectivities.
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August 24, 2020
USA/Global: Divest from Violent Policing and Endless Wars, Part Two
August 24, 2020
USA/Global: Divest from Violent Policing and Endless Wars, Part One
August 3, 2020
Africa/Global: Preventing the Next Pandemic
July 20, 2020
South Africa: Covid-19 Response Failing; How to Do Better
July 6, 2020
Africa/Global: Not Pessimism or Optimism but Possibilism
June 22, 2020
Africa/Global: Fossil Fuel Viability to Decline Sharply
June 8, 2020
USA/Global: Racial Pandemic and Viral Pandemic
June 8, 2020
Africa/Global: Thinking Post-Covid-19
May 25, 2020
Africa: Remote Learning with African Storybooks
May 12, 2020
USA/Global: Contesting Health and Workers' Rights
April 27, 2020
Africa/Global: Pandemic Mobilization amid High Vulnerability
April 13, 2020
Mozambique: Cumulative Shocks, Local and Global
April 2, 2020
Africa: Covid-19, New Africa-Specific Links
March 26, 2020
Africa/Global: Coronavirus Reflections and Updates
March 16, 2020
Africa/Global: Coronavirus Updates
March 9, 2020
USA/Africa: Transnational Lives in Kentucky
February 24, 2020
USA/Global: National and Global Inequalities Are Intertwined
February 10, 2020
Malawi: Historic Victory for Rule of Law
January 27, 2020
USA/Global: Green New Deal Can and Must Be Global
January 27, 2020
USA/Global: Beyond Eurocentrism and U.S. Exceptionalism
January 13, 2020
Russia/Africa: Upping Its Stake in Multi-Player Field
December 16, 2019
Africa/Global: Editor´s Commentaries, 2019
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