European Affairs

European Affairs http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/europeanaffairs The taxonomy view with a depth of 5. en The British Urban Uprising of 2011 http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/british-urban-uprising-2011 <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoN <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/british-urban-uprising-2011"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/british-urban-uprising-2011#comments European Affairs Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:00:39 -0700 PTZeleza 31475 at http://www.zeleza.com Obama Doesn't Need a Poodle: The End of a "Special Relationship"? http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/obama-doesnt-need-poodle-end-special-relationship <p align="justify">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. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/obama-doesnt-need-poodle-end-special-relationship"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/obama-doesnt-need-poodle-end-special-relationship#comments U.S. Affairs European Affairs Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:50:30 -0800 PTZeleza 741 at http://www.zeleza.com Europe, Their Europe http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/europe-their-europe <p align="justify">I'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. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/europe-their-europe"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/europe-their-europe#comments European Affairs Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:00:50 -0800 Pius Adesanmi 712 at http://www.zeleza.com The Ghosts of History: British Colonialism and Obama http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/ghosts-history-british-colonialism-and-obama <p align="justify">According 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. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/ghosts-history-british-colonialism-and-obama"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/ghosts-history-british-colonialism-and-obama#comments U.S. Affairs African Affairs European Affairs Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:28:02 -0800 699 at http://www.zeleza.com Sarkozy's Latest Antics in Africa http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/sarkozys-latest-antics-africa <p align="justify"><font face="book antiqua,palatino"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Nicholas 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.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"> </span></font></p><p align="justify">  <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/sarkozys-latest-antics-africa"> read more »</a></span></p> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/sarkozys-latest-antics-africa#comments African Affairs European Affairs Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:18:30 -0800 Wandia Njoya 504 at http://www.zeleza.com Unoka, Okonkwo’s Father, Goes to France http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/unoka-okonkwo-s-father-goes-france <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><font face="book antiqua,palatino">With 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 <em>Things Fall Apart</em>, is as familiar to the global literary community as Miss Havisham or Aureliano Buendia. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/unoka-okonkwo-s-father-goes-france"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/unoka-okonkwo-s-father-goes-france#comments African Affairs European Affairs Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:40:01 -0800 Pius Adesanmi 476 at http://www.zeleza.com Nicholas Sarkozy’s Unacceptable Speech By Boubacar Boris Diop (Trans. from French by Wandia Njoya) http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/nicholas-sarkozy-s-unacceptable-speech-boubacar-boris-diop-trans-french-wan <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><font face="book antiqua,palatino">It 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. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/nicholas-sarkozy-s-unacceptable-speech-boubacar-boris-diop-trans-french-wan"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/nicholas-sarkozy-s-unacceptable-speech-boubacar-boris-diop-trans-french-wan#comments African Affairs European Affairs Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:36:53 -0800 Guest Blogger 471 at http://www.zeleza.com Letter From A Self-Hating African To His Beloved French Brother http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/letter-self-hating-african-his-beloved-french-brother <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="book antiqua,palatino">Dear President Sarkozy,</font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="justify">  <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/letter-self-hating-african-his-beloved-french-brother"> read more »</a></span></p> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/letter-self-hating-african-his-beloved-french-brother#comments African Affairs European Affairs Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:03:43 -0800 Pius Adesanmi 385 at http://www.zeleza.com SPECIAL REPORT: The European-African Summit--Renegotiating Neo-Colonialism? http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/special-report-european-african-summit-renegotiating-neo-colonialism <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><font face="book antiqua,palatino"><font size="2">The Second EU-Africa Summit is now underway in Portugal. It has brought together more than 70 leaders from African and European countries. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/special-report-european-african-summit-renegotiating-neo-colonialism"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/special-report-european-african-summit-renegotiating-neo-colonialism#comments African Affairs European Affairs Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:03:37 -0800 Guest Blogger 358 at http://www.zeleza.com A Lamentation for King Tut-Ankh-Amen http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/lamentation-king-tut-ankh-amen <p align="justify"><font face="book antiqua,palatino"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">The 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. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"> </span></font></p><p align="justify"><font face="book antiqua,palatino"></font> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/lamentation-king-tut-ankh-amen"> read more »</a></span></p> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/african-affairs/lamentation-king-tut-ankh-amen#comments African Affairs European Affairs Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:38:53 -0800 Wandia Njoya 316 at http://www.zeleza.com SPECIAL REPORT: France and Africa Under Bonaparte Sarkozy http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/special-report-france-and-africa-under-bonaparte-sarkozy <p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'"><font face="book antiqua,palatino"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'">Nicolas Sarkozy’s Africa by <strong>Achille Mbembe</strong>; </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'">Sarkozy and Africa: Misunderstanding or Change? <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/special-report-france-and-africa-under-bonaparte-sarkozy"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/special-report-france-and-africa-under-bonaparte-sarkozy#comments African Affairs European Affairs Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:14:08 -0700 Guest Blogger 287 at http://www.zeleza.com The African Diaspora in Europe: Black British Literature since Windrush http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/african-diaspora-europe-black-british-literature-windrush <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="book antiqua,palatino">The history of African Europeans is little known, but this is beginning to change as more research is conducted on the subject. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/african-diaspora-europe-black-british-literature-windrush"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/u-s-affairs/african-diaspora-europe-black-british-literature-windrush#comments European Affairs Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:52:53 -0700 Guest Blogger 277 at http://www.zeleza.com Dear President Sarkozy… http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/dear-president-sarkozy <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="book antiqua,palatino" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'">Fraternal 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. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/dear-president-sarkozy"> read more »</a></span> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/dear-president-sarkozy#comments European Affairs Wed, 09 May 2007 11:47:07 -0700 Pius Adesanmi 160 at http://www.zeleza.com Cartoons as Weapons of Mass Provocation http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/global-affairs/cartoons-weapons-mass-provocation <p class="storycontent" align="justify">THIS AND OTHER ESSAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A COLLECTION BY PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA, <em>BARACK OBAMA AND AFRICAN DIASPORAS: DIALOGUES AND DISSENSIONS</em>, <a href="http://www.ayebia.co.uk/">AYEBIA PUBLISHING</a> (Oxford, U.K.) and <a href="http://www.ohioswallow.com/">OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS</a> (Athens, OH, USA) in Fall 2009. LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOK!!! </p> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/global-affairs/cartoons-weapons-mass-provocation#comments European Affairs Global Affairs Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:20:04 -0800 PTZeleza 18 at http://www.zeleza.com The Postcolonial Uprising in France http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/postcolonial-uprising-france <p class="storycontent" align="justify">THIS AND OTHER ESSAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A COLLECTION BY PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA, <em>BARACK OBAMA AND AFRICAN DIASPORAS: DIALOGUES AND DISSENSIONS</em>, <a href="http://www.ayebia.co.uk/">AYEBIA PUBLISHING</a> (Oxford, U.K.) and <a href="http://www.ohioswallow.com/">OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS</a> (Athens, OH, USA) in Fall 2009. LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOK!!! </p> http://www.zeleza.com/blogging/european-affairs/postcolonial-uprising-france#comments European Affairs Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:45:42 -0800 PTZeleza 7 at http://www.zeleza.com