I am never at ease in conversations on African fabric with people from the aid world and with scholars of cultural disciplines related to African arts and crafts. As a matter of fact, I think that sometimes historians, sociologists, development experts that usually write on this matter tend to focus on African fabric only in […]
È noto che gli incontaminati e vuoti paesaggi dell’Africa – mitizzati dai vari orientalismi, compresa l’industria turistica, e contrapposti all’opprimente antropizzazione del primo mondo – sono messi in pericolo da un inquinamento crescente, che numerose voci denunciano. Tra i fenomeni che suscitano maggiore preoccupazione ci sono l’aumento della popolazione e l’urbanizzazione. Nei prossimi anni, infatti, […]
From the journeys of Marco Polo and Vasco da Gama to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion, the taste of the outsider has driven how African landscapes have been painted, literally on canvas and socio-politically and economically in its occupation. These imaginations of the continent have left the impression that Africans themselves either do not […]
La littérature grise et scientifique sur les dynamiques d’évolution des milieux et paysages en Afrique de l’ouest et du nord, est riche de descriptions catastrophistes depuis le 19e siècle. Elles y sont fréquemment qualifiées de dégradation voire de désertification. Sans nier la réalité des processus de dégradation des formations végétales et des sols, et tomber […]
We are living in a transformational time when it comes to asylum. Transformational because last year we adopted the second generation of EU laws on asylum. Transformational because we now have an Agency – the European Asylum Support Office – that is in a position to assist Member States facing difficult asylum situations by providing […]
Horizontal philanthropy is a process in which people who are poor mobilize and share resources among themselves. Its transactions provide types of mutual support, but can also act as investment to improve conditions and future prospects. Local idioms in various parts of Africa illustrate the way this type of transaction is understood: «one hand washes […]
La région parisienne compte une population immigrée d’origine africaine nombreuse, mais aussi variée. Pendant des dizaines d’années, les femmes africaines arrivaient après leur conjoint, dans le cadre du regroupement familial.1 L’homme était le pilier économique du foyer. A ce flux de population de la zone sahélienne islamisée s’ajoute, surtout depuis les années 1990, une vague […]
This biographical study of Darius Dhlomo1 begins to uncover the sporting past of a transnational and iconoclastic South African footballer and deepens our understanding of broader processes of change in South African football between the 1940s and the1960s. In striking, even surprising ways Dhlomo’s career brings to life key aspects of South African football’s transformation […]