The Western Media and Africa: Issues of Information and Images
By Amy Biney - Western news reporting in general is often portrayed as being neutral and impartial, and the journalist as a neutral and balanced arbiter. There is still a popular misconception that...
View ArticleDecolonization and the Collapse of the British Empire
By David Pierce - Before World War II it was stated fairly, “The sun never set on the British Empire.” For decades, this was true: the British colonial Empire touched all corners of the globe. After...
View ArticleBreaking Boundaries: Football and Colonialism in the British Empire
By Patrick M. Hutchison - Finally, an article by Shaun Lopez, a stunningly handsome professor at the University of Washington, shows how resistance through football manifests itself in postcolonial...
View ArticleThe Horn of Africa: Critical Analysis of Conflict Management and Strategies...
By Emily K. Elmore - Locations that are biased toward one party or the other will immediately put the visiting party in a defensive posture and can limit the efficacy of collaborative talks before they...
View ArticleA Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical...
By Chloe S. Manchester - There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater deal of suffering than others. Over time...
View ArticleRonan Bennett's "The Catastrophist:" Paralleling Ireland and Congo
By Rachel E. Wallaace - In The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett draws on events in Ireland to frame the political situation in the Congo and depicts political parallels between the two countries....
View ArticleImplicit Negritude in "The Dark Child"
By Miles G. Kellerman - In James Kirkup and Ernest Jones’ English translation of Camara Laye’s 1953 autobiography, The Dark Child, there is a significant stylistic decision in the final sentence....
View ArticleAnxieties of Empire: Examining Frontier Governance in 19th Century British India
By Zaib Un Nisa Aziz - In May 2012, Shakil Afridi received a sentence of thirty-three years “rigorous imprisonment” and a large fine for aiding foreign intelligence gatherers in their quest for Osama...
View ArticleCreating Europe: The Discourse of Civilisation
By Benjamin Walton - Today political philosophy is generally conducted in the light of the perceived triumph of liberalism. That is, it typically proceeds from the assumption that it is unreasonable,...
View ArticleFeminist and New Historicist Readings of Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King"
By Kelley S. Kent - “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888)[1] is one of Rudyard Kipling’s most well known and highly acclaimed short stories. Michael Caine, Sean Connery, and Christopher Plummer starred in...
View ArticleCultural Tensions and Hybrid Identities in Derek Walcott's Poetry
By Nidhi Mahajan - In his Nobel Lecture, Derek Walcott described the experience of watching a Ramleela performance in a village in Trinidad, remarking: "... Two different religions, two different...
View ArticleExploiting the Poor and Powerless: Forced Labor Systems in the Early and...
By Drew Liquerman - Our world has witnessed significant shifts, transformations, and evolution in government systems, the balance of power among nations, economics, the rights of men and women, and...
View ArticleHow Important is the Notion of the 'Civilising Mission' to Our Understanding...
By Thanapat Pekanan - The ‘civilising mission' is a broad ideology that combines four main ideals; Enlightenment ideals, Christian / Evangelical ideas of pre-destination, racist ideas about white...
View ArticleThe Colonial Subject: Seeing the Unseen and the Construction of Subjectivity...
By Eric N. Hahn - The complex and multifaceted nature of cinema is further complicated by the unmistakable tension between the quasi-objective potential inherent in the medium—the camera merely...
View ArticleIndia and Nigeria: Similar Colonial Legacies, Vastly Different Trajectories:...
By Caroline Cohn - The nations of Nigeria and India both have exceptionally diverse populations, endured the deliberate divide-and-rule strategies executed by British colonizers who sought thereby to...
View ArticleA Colonial Catalyst: Reverberations of the Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Rise...
By Sumaia N. Masoom - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (more commonly known as “ISIS,” but also referred to as the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” or simply “the Islamic State”) has been on a...
View ArticlePost-Colonial Duality and Identity in Ballard's "The Crystal World"
By Emma O. Volk - J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966) is a prismatic text, apparently translucent yet linguistically opaque, with moments of unexpected ontological intricacy. Like the crystals...
View ArticleFirst the Land and then the Language: Linguistic Imperialism in Transjordan...
By Kate Pashby - In Jordan, a state renowned for medical tourism, all physicians are proficient in English because medical classes are taught in English, indicating that English, rather than Jordan's...
View Article"Solidarity of 'the Colonized'": A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sinn Féin's...
By Celia Lohr - Ireland and Palestine share histories of colonialism, ethnonationalist conflict, and resistance characterized as "terrorism." While Ireland has reached an official status of "peace,"...
View ArticleImagining Ethiopia: The Contrasting Views of Ethiopian Power, Progress, and...
By Benyam T. Alemu - The ancient civilization of Ethiopia has captivated the West and served, across centuries, as an inspiration for much of Africa. As a regional power in Eastern Africa, the nation...
View ArticleAristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn's "Oroonoko": The...
By Conner R. Hayes - Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko offers a complex representation of the semiotic and socio-political meaning of seventeenth-century torture and death and the intersectional manner in which...
View ArticleThe Modern and the Traditional: African Women and Colonial Morality
By Rabah Omer - Modernity and tradition are used as contradictory and exclusive concepts where the former indicates progress and the latter indicates a past without contemporary legitimacy. Modernity...
View ArticleCacao Cravings: Europe's Assimilation and Europeanization of Chocolate...
By James C. Miller - Chocolate is a foodstuff that many people in the modern world take for granted; the sweet treat can today be found plentifully and cheaply in practically any store all across the...
View ArticleThe Body as a Weapon of Resistance in Postcolonial Short Stories: The Cases...
By Kyle S. McQuillan - The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the “New World” at the end of the fifteenth century triggered an age of violence, oppression, and colonization that lasted until the...
View ArticleBefore Drones: U.S. Covert Action in Africa During the Congo Crisis
By Drew A. Calcagno - A man named Patrice Lumumba led the nation's independence struggle, starting as the head of a local anti-colonial movement and eventually growing to be the first...
View ArticleVictorian Racism: An Explication of Scientific Knowledge, its Social...
By Peter H. Conlin - The British Empire of the nineteenth century displayed and embodied racism in its composite. In embodying this idea of racial inequality, the Empire created grounds on which it...
View ArticleNative Design in Modern Fashion: The Transformations of Native American...
By Jianing Zhao - What happens to flower beadwork when its application is transformed from traditional clothing decoration, to painting on the wall, and back to embroidery on high-end fashion garments?...
View ArticleNewspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement: A Constructivist Argument
By Esme Trahair - On February 14th, 1965, just one week before he was assassinated, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Detroit. He spoke about his beliefs concerning segregation and civil rights, and made...
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