Human Security

“As a member of the [United Nations Human Rights] Council, Denmark will work for … a world without torture, a world where indigenous peoples’ voices are heard and all their rights respected, a world in which human rights and the rule of law constitute the cornerstone of international and national

The United States faces profound challenges in the areas of race relations, class exploitation, the rights of immigrants, women and other marginalised groups, the threat of world war and other calamities.

Exactly ten years ago at the annual meeting of the Oromo Studies Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, the late, great Kenyan comparativist and philosopher Ali Mazrui gave the keynote speech.

Talking about race does not divide people. What divides people is racism. The most violent experience you can subject someone to in South Africa and the globe is racism. It is a painful encounter that confronts black people daily.

Travelling to Chad in January 2018 was one of the most consequential trips of my life. I had left Legon, Ghana for Abuja, Nigeria where I was able to access the visa for Chad.

Why should you care? Because e pluribus unum, means “out of many one.” There is strength in our diversity.

Trying to complain and demand an investigation into having been beaten up and threatened by security police in Swaziland via the United Kingdom Foreign Office takes its time. In my case seven and a half years and counting.

The mission statement of US African Command (AFRICOM), articulated by President George Bush in 2007, declared African underdevelopment and human insecurities as a threat to US national security.

Another slew of Orwellian headlines appeared in the press recently, along with the usual bellicose chants that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and elite security is national security.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the heart of Black Africa.