AiW Guest: Connor Pruss Arjun Appadurai notably explained that globalization is marked by a new role for the imagination in social life in which the world may consist of regions (seen processually), but regions also imagine their own worlds. The… Read More ›
Democratic Republic of Congo
Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: Gene Aise, 1Key’s life story
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the final post in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kiswahili and French to… Read More ›
Review: Alex Mvuka Ntung’s autobiography Not My Worst Day
When I first sat down to review this book I felt resistant. Not My Worst Day is an autobiography that narrates Alex Mvuka Ntung’s childhood and young adulthood in the Great Lakes Region, describing his experiences during the Rwandan Genocide… Read More ›
Event: Sussex Africa Centre. Peter van der Windt, ‘Local institutions and Cooperation in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo’
AiW Guest: Daniel Watson. At the most recent Sussex Africa Centre event, Peter van der Windt – PhD candidate at Columbia University – presented his research on ‘Local institutions and Cooperation in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Democratic… Read More ›