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Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Rule of law seems absent, western powers impassive, as civil war inflicts horrific suffering in Sudan

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I know it's hipster hot right now to be up in arms over Gaza and lukewarm over Ukraine . I'd like for a moment to set aside both tho...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Scholars examine efficacy of apology in book born of truth and reconciliation in South Africa

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Colleagues of mine in African studies, Professors Melanie Judge and Dee Smythe published Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology ...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Nigerians pin high hopes on horse-race election

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Voters bear PDP flags at a rally in Ilé-Ifè, Osun State, in December. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Update, March 1, 2023: Nigerian electi...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

EU leverages trade for sustainable development

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Attorney Cyprian Liske presents at the University of Bologna . Used with permission. "Sustainability" is the word of our times, an...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Scholars seek to stimulate socio-legal studies in Africa

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At the global meeting of the Law and Society Association ( LSA ) in Lisbon earlier this month, scholars in the collaborative research netwo...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

'Sudanese Bubba' will show you Sudan

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You might not even remember it, but for a short time in the fall of 2020, we thought the pandemic was over. We were just too cute. Wrong as ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Tort liability brakes U.S. policy shift on Sudan, marks crossroads of past, future where Africa meets Arabia

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Street corner in the Arabian Market district of Khartoum (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) With economic sanctions exacting an intensified ...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Happy Independence Day, Namibia!

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Your humble blogger reaches Swakopmund, crossroads of the Namib Desert and South Atlantic Ocean. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 ...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Customary law undergirds justice systems in Africa: A-courting in Harare

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Outside the "Harare Civil Court" buildings, a discarded sign reads, "Harare Magistrate's Court / Civil and Customary La...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Shop like a termite: Sustainable architecture in Harare

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Leko, my guide in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, uses a termite mound for elevation. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . The E...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Zimbabweans still await their development moment

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Robert Mugabe airport. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . In Harare, Zimbabwe, my host (whose identity I am protecting) brought ...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Poor development choices may bolster quality-of-life disparity on Tanzania's Msasani Peninsula

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 Coco Beach, Msasani Peninsula, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . The short length of Coco Beach is t...