British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ended his much anticipated, at least in Britain, two-day visit to the United States today. What is remarkable is how little attention the visit received in the United States as the two commentaries below clearly indicate. To be sure, the Prime Minister met President Obama in the White House, for a hot twenty minutes. He addressed a joint session of Congress, the fifth British Prime Minister to do so, where he received seventeen standing ovations. read more »
European Affairs
From the Editor Obama Doesn't Need a Poodle: The End of a "Special Relationship"?
Posted March 5th, 2009 by PTZeleza
Europe, Their Europe
Posted February 1st, 2009 by Pius AdesanmiI've been asked to reflect briefly on the entanglement of Europe, America, and Obama. Well, let's just say that Donald Rumsfeld's "old Europe" has never known how to handle the enigma that is America. Here is a Frankenstein Europe created, a colony of inconsequential second-raters and failures, the dregs of European whiteness who took out their frustrations on the Native Americans they exterminated and the Africans they enslaved. read more »
The Ghosts of History: British Colonialism and Obama
Posted December 3rd, 2008 by AnonymousAccording to the stories below, U.S. President-elect Barrack Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was tortured in Kenya during the struggle for independence after the Second World War. Some in the British press wonder even worry about the effects of this on President Obama's attitudes to Britain and the British--a poignant narrative of postimperial anxieties about the colonial ‘natives' striking back. The stories offer reminders of the intricate ties that bind Africa, Europe, and America through the troubling histories of slavery and colonialism. read more »
Sarkozy's Latest Antics in Africa
Posted March 1st, 2008 by Wandia NjoyaNicholas Sarkozy has not ceased to entertain. His visit to Chad and South Africa, much like George W. Bush’s “African Safari,” makes better fodder for political satire and tabloid gossip than what the Western media giants like to consider respected journalism.
Unoka, Okonkwo’s Father, Goes to France
Posted February 18th, 2008 by Pius AdesanmiWith more than eleven million copies sold and translations available in more than thirty-five languages, one can safely claim that Unoka, the lazy father of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, is as familiar to the global literary community as Miss Havisham or Aureliano Buendia. read more »
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Nicholas Sarkozy’s Unacceptable Speech By Boubacar Boris Diop (Trans. from French by Wandia Njoya)
Posted February 11th, 2008 by Guest BloggerIt is probably written somewhere that between Paris and its former colonies in Black Africa, nothing should follow the norms accepted by the rest of the world. read more »
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Letter From A Self-Hating African To His Beloved French Brother
Posted January 7th, 2008 by Pius AdesanmiDear President Sarkozy,
SPECIAL REPORT: The European-African Summit--Renegotiating Neo-Colonialism?
Posted December 8th, 2007 by Guest BloggerThe Second EU-Africa Summit is now underway in Portugal. It has brought together more than 70 leaders from African and European countries. read more »
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A Lamentation for King Tut-Ankh-Amen
Posted November 27th, 2007 by Wandia NjoyaThe display of King Tut-Ankh-Amen’s remains earlier this month and the exhibition of the treasures from his tomb in Europe and the United States are utterly disrespectful to his memory and to the dignity of living Africans who trace their heritage to Ancient Egypt.
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SPECIAL REPORT: France and Africa Under Bonaparte Sarkozy
Posted October 21st, 2007 by Guest BloggerNicolas Sarkozy’s Africa by Achille Mbembe; Sarkozy and Africa: Misunderstanding or Change? read more »
The African Diaspora in Europe: Black British Literature since Windrush
Posted October 6th, 2007 by Guest BloggerThe history of African Europeans is little known, but this is beginning to change as more research is conducted on the subject. read more »
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Dear President Sarkozy…
Posted May 9th, 2007 by Pius AdesanmiFraternal greetings to you from Canada. I have elected to write you on the occasion of your resounding victory in the recently concluded presidential elections in France, your country of birth and your father’s country of adoption. I hope you do not mind the personal and familiar tone of this letter. We have one important thing in common and I feel so close to you on its account – our common roots in immigration. read more »
From the Editor Cartoons as Weapons of Mass Provocation
Posted February 12th, 2006 by PTZeleza
THIS AND OTHER ESSAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A COLLECTION BY PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA, BARACK OBAMA AND AFRICAN DIASPORAS: DIALOGUES AND DISSENSIONS, AYEBIA PUBLISHING (Oxford, U.K.) and OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS (Athens, OH, USA) in Fall 2009. LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOK!!!
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From the Editor The Postcolonial Uprising in France
Posted November 16th, 2005 by PTZeleza
THIS AND OTHER ESSAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A COLLECTION BY PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA, BARACK OBAMA AND AFRICAN DIASPORAS: DIALOGUES AND DISSENSIONS, AYEBIA PUBLISHING (Oxford, U.K.) and OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS (Athens, OH, USA) in Fall 2009. LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOK!!!
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