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El Fashar, an atrocity foretold
Reading Time: 7 minutesBy Ahmed Gouja from Nyala Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale. This analysis is based on open-source v...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Former minister Jan Pronk is like a ventriloquist from another civilization: english.theafricanists.info/interview/ja...
In Dutch: Een buikspreker van een andere beschaving: dutch.theafricanists.info/interview/20...
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October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Former minister Jan Pronk is like a ventriloquist from another civilization: english.theafricanists.info/interview/ja...
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In Dutch: Een buikspreker van een andere beschaving: dutch.theafricanists.info/interview/20...
How Sudan is withering away
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The wandering souls of Sudan after 500 days of starving out El Fashir
Reading Time: 4 minutesA ragged horizon, chunks of rubble protruding from the ground like rotten teeth, and refugees resembling walking skeletons. This is how Sudanese artist Adlan Yousif (33) rememb...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How Sudan is withering away
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De stille vernietiging van Soedan
In de Soedanese stad Al-Fashir is een ramp aan de gang. De stad is al vijfhonderd dagen afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Alles raakt op en de vraag is hoe lang de mensen het daar nog volhouden. Getuige...
www.nrc.nl
September 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The end of an era. Now that the western development worker goes home, what remains of the morality that drove him
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The end of an era. The development worker goes home, what remains of the morality that drove him
Reading Time: 7 minutesDevelopment aid by the white Western world to poorer countries is in retreat. It marks the conclusion of an era. What drove Westerners to dedicate a portion of their lives to w...
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August 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The end of an era. Now that the western development worker goes home, what remains of the morality that drove him
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The struggle for our seeds:
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De strijd om onze zaden:
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De strijd om onze zaden:
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We must safeguard our native seeds
Reading Time: 5 minutesVendors enthusiastically wave carrots and rhubarb, lift fish high, and greet with chickens. Women and children lay out bags of onions or potatoes along the roadside, as trucks ...
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August 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The struggle for our seeds:
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De strijd om onze zaden:
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De strijd om onze zaden:
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Visual arts in Kenya: the truth is abstract.
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How visual arts in Kenya capture the state of the country
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the hills just outside the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, lies the home of visual artist Evanson Kangethe, along a dirt road. Born in 1961, this somewhat stocky man with a mane of...
english.theafricanists.info
August 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Visual arts in Kenya: the truth is abstract.
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Activists in Kenya find solidarity on the frontline against repression, but the bookseller stands alone
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The bookseller in the frontline
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe girls from Butere Secondary School were overwhelmed by a choking haze of tear gas. It happened in early April in the town of Nakuru, during Kenya’s national drama festival....
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July 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Activists in Kenya find solidarity on the frontline against repression, but the bookseller stands alone
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“Health systems in Africa face collapse. Modern diseases on the rise”
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Health care collapse looms. Modern diseases on the rise
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe health care system of many African countries is on the verge of collapse due to the withdrawal of American aid. This will not only have consequences for the patients who de...
english.theafricanists.info
June 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Health systems in Africa face collapse. Modern diseases on the rise”
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In their endless fight for power, politicians in South Sudan have started another dirty war with fire bombs against civilians
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War in South Sudan gets very ugly once more
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is a war without a name, but a war nonetheless. In South Sudan, planes are attacking the population in opposition areas and tens of thousands of civilians have fled. Uganda ...
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May 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In their endless fight for power, politicians in South Sudan have started another dirty war with fire bombs against civilians
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How the visit of Dutch king Alexander to Kenya conjured a surprise at the end:
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Part 2 What the visit of the Dutch king to Kenya achieved
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Dutch state visit to Kenya, already fraught with controversy due to an internet campaign against the visit, got an extra controversial tail. No, there were no demonstration...
english.theafricanists.info
April 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
How the visit of Dutch king Alexander to Kenya conjured a surprise at the end:
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The morning the Dutch king saw Kenyan president Ruto he also talked with members of Gen Z
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What the king of the Netherlands discussed with Gen-Z
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Are there no secret agents of the Kenyan government here?”, asks a nervous youngster just before the conversation begins with King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, the royal...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The morning the Dutch king saw Kenyan president Ruto he also talked with members of Gen Z
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Withdrawal of American aid causes a crisis
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Withdrawal of USAID causes crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutesMany African countries are facing a crisis due to the withdrawal of American aid, especially but not only in the health sector. Even if courts in the US would stop the dismantl...
english.theafricanists.info
March 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Withdrawal of American aid causes a crisis
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The war in Sudan has been devastating. Not only have millions of people fled, hospitals, schools, museums, places of worship and apartment buildings have been targeted, but now the dams in the Nile are also at risk: english.theafricanists.info/interview/th...
The war puts the dams in Sudan at risk
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe war in Sudan has been devastating. Not only have millions of people fled, hospitals, schools, museums, places of worship and apartment buildings have been targeted, but now...
english.theafricanists.info
January 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The war in Sudan has been devastating. Not only have millions of people fled, hospitals, schools, museums, places of worship and apartment buildings have been targeted, but now the dams in the Nile are also at risk: english.theafricanists.info/interview/th...
In Dutch: De geur van het regenseizoen, samenvatting lezing in Leiden: dutch.theafricanists.info/opinie/de-pr...
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De prikkelende geur van het komende regenseizoen.
Reading Time: 7 minutesDit is een bewerking van de Stephen Ellis-lezing die ik op 4 december 2024 hield bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum van de Universiteit Leiden. Afrika heeft zich adembenemend snel on...
dutch.theafricanists.info
December 22, 2024 at 4:56 PM
In Dutch: De geur van het regenseizoen, samenvatting lezing in Leiden: dutch.theafricanists.info/opinie/de-pr...
The whole speech on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThuW...
The whole speech on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThuW...