Kenya and Somalia can’t settle a protracted dispute about the location of their maritime boundary. At stake is control over a 100,000 square km triangle in the Indian Ocean that’s got large deposits of oil and gas as well as lots of tuna. Christopher R. Rossi explains why colonial boundaries are part of what’s complicating the disagreement.
The Bushmen of colonial southern Africa had a complex and meaningful practice of dress, intimately related to subsistence, identity and how they lived their lives. This is a far cry from a colonial stereotype that’s persisted over time. Vibeke Maria Viestad sets out the research she’s done analysing Bushman dress in its various forms.
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Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (second left) and Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta (second right).
EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu
Christopher R. Rossi, University of Iowa
The legacy of colonialism's unfinished business has now migrated to the Indian Ocean.
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Naron women and children wearing ordinary dress - the photograph was taken in 1919.
Fourie collection/ Museum Africa
Vibeke Maria Viestad, University of Oslo
Contrary to the colonial view, Bushmen of southern Africa had a complex and meaningful practice of dress.
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Politics + Society
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Derek Hook, Duquesne University
A collection of prison letters provides a peek into the suffering of South African liberation hero, Robert Sobukwe.
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Ghaliya Djelloul, Université catholique de Louvain
Demonstrations against the current regime have opened up a space for debate and self-expression in Algeria, recalling the crucial need for a free and involved civil society.
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From our international editions
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Derek Hodgson, University of York
Reading and writing may have evolved thanks to a natural ability of the brain's visual cortex to process geometrical shapes.
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Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia
Margaret Atwood's classic novel imagined a society where women had almost no power. Hundreds of people gathered in Sydney yesterday to hear Atwood speak about dystopias – fictional and otherwise.
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En français
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Yves Charbit, Université Paris Descartes – USPC
Quand la démographie devient l’explication par excellence, elle est purement et simplement instrumentalisée.
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Gilles Pison, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités
Dans quels pays les immigrés sont-ils les plus nombreux ? De quels pays sont-ils issus ? De façon plus générale, comment les immigrés se répartissent-ils à l’échelle de la planète ?
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