Robtel Neajai Pailey

It has been one year since newly inaugurated Liberian President George Manneh Weah sparked controversy by 

In October 2006, I barreled into the Oxford office of Fahamu, Networks for Social Justice, looking for something socially redeeming to do with my limited free time.

For the millions of undocumented migrants across the globe, life unfolds above ground, but below the radar.

I should know.

When I was six years old, I plunged into a vortex of legal invisibility and remained trapped in its grip for nearly 15 years.   

Last week, I was invited by Eritrean-Ethiopian  Masters student Miriam Siun of Leiden University’s African Studies Centre to give one of two keynote lectures on the topic, “Where Is the ‘African’ in African Studies?” I took a long-range view, declaring that Africans have always produced know

After a series of meetings in Dakar, I travelled back to London via Madrid on a red-eye Iberia Airlines flight.

Late last week, I was informed that I would not be able to travel to Dubai for an important meeting scheduled months ago.

In the week of 26 August, Liberia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Augustine Ngafuan chided Africa for leaving countries hit by Ebola in the lurch.

The timing could not have been more poignant: as South African president Jacob Zuma announced to the world that Nelson Mandela, the father of his nation, had breathed his last, Mandela’s daughters, Zenani and Z

INTRODUCTION

I watched in amazement as stately Cameroonian 30-something, Mamadou Kwidjim Toure, founder of pan-African youth movement “Africa 2.0”, slipped former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo a note on the elevated stage.