Matteo Fraschini Koffi 7 March 2022
Competition between European and Chinese investments in Africa has become fiercer. Can African nations turn that into new opportunities for sound growth?
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- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 12 May 2021From Mozambico to Mali, from Niger to Burkina Faso, Islamist groups are multiplying their attacks on Western and local targets. Europe should watch closely.
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 23 September 2020“Ethnography has had its day: it is high time Europeans hand over looted objects”, says the director of the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. But other African artists and cultural players have more than a doubt.
- 8 June 2020The coronavirus crisis has turned the world upside down, including in terms of mobility priviliges, expectations and prejudices. Are we witnessing the advent of a new form of Immoblity Justice?
- Simone Disegni 2 October 2019Managing migration flows, strengthening democracy, fostering a long-term Euro-African pact for growth and investments. Outgoing European Commission’s director general for International Cooperation Stefano Manservisi leaves his vision for the future of Europe’s geopolitics.
- Nicoletta Fagiolo 20 June 2019The CFA franc is linked to a history of extreme colonial violence and should by now be part of the past, and therefore of numismatics, and lie in a memorabilia museum like the one on the apartheid era of comic actor and fervent activist Pieter-Dirk Uys.
- 10 February 2017How to develop democracy in Latin America or Africa, not just applying Western ideas but adapting local culture? Asks von Vacano: “if we understand theories across cultures we might be able to develop more permanent conceptions and constitutions that are democratic. Example: all inclusion of minorities – where already the ancient Athenian democracy model failed – Bolivia today has incorporated the indigenous groups, applying its cultural roots into democratic theory and constitution.”
- 30 May 2013Let us imagine for a moment that at the November 1945 Nuremburg trials, which were held so as to condemn those responsible for instigating World War II and the Holocaust, a Prosecutor decided, by distorting the historical account of the wars’ events, to press charges for crimes against humanity during WWII against Franklin Delano Roosevelt[1]. There were surely crimes committed by American soldiers fighting the Nazi regime, yet would this make Roosevelt a just target for crimes committed during World War II? A similar historical and thus juridical incoherence is currently being played out at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague in the case the Prosecutor vs Laurent Gbagbo.
