The French National Assembly, one of the Western institutions Western academics believe African countries should aspire to.
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Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
The argument isn't whether African democracies are better than those in the West. It's simply that the idea of "real" and "not yet real" democracies expresses a colonial mentality, not reality.
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Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s increasingly repressive government uses colonial-era laws to silence dissent.
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Nic Cheeseman, University of Birmingham; Jonathan Fisher, University of Birmingham
The unstable authoritarian pathway that many post-colonial African states followed was facilitated by the way in which European empires undermined democratic elements within African societies.
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Politics + Society
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Patricio R. Estévez-Soto, UCL
AMLO's war against organised crime in Mexico isn't stopping people dying.
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Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp
Photographs give unprecedented insight into the lives and humanity of those involved in the Ugandan rebel movement.
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Arts + Culture
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Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Adhi Oktaviana, Griffith University; Maxime Aubert, Griffith University
A recent cave art discovery in remote Indonesia is changing our understanding of the beginnings of art and the emergence of religious-like thinking in the early human story.
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Marina Eckersley, University of Toronto
Desperate fans may have to settle on paying exorbitant amounts for a cassette tape.
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Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Université de Bordeaux
Un projet d’amendement constitutionnel de la loi sur la citoyenneté vise à empêcher les étrangers musulmans d’accéder à la nationalité indienne. C’est une négation de la diversité religieuse du pays.
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François Recanati, École normale supérieure (ENS)
La philosophie du langage et de l’esprit cherche à appréhender notre compréhension du monde par son internalisation dans la pensée, par sa représentation mentale.
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