The Changing Shape of Aid
Corporate colonialism is here to stay.
On the Newsstand:Africa: Ready to Play?
The Need for Somalian Intervention, Revisited
The need for intervention in Somalia to halt the advances of al-Shabaab has become only clearer during the devastating famine destroying the Horn of Africa.
Updating Guinea and Why it Matters
Earlier this month I wrote a blog documenting three elections in Africa, and I wrote it with the idea that I would continue to update the struggles for democracy in Tanzania, Guinea, and Cote d’Ivoire. While it’s cool to actually follow through on my idea and follow the political climates in these three nations, recent developments in Guinea quickly reminded ... Read More
A Few Glimmers of Hope out of Africa
The last month has seen a surge in “democratic” elections around the world. Headliners like the recent election of Dilma Rousseff in emerging Brazil, the massive midterm elections of the US, and the corrupt and violent polls in Myanmar have taken center stage, but voting in Tanzania, Cote d’Iviore, and Guinea has also taken place. Coverage of the later three ... Read More
A new direction for Africa?
An end to one of the great tragedies of the last decade appears to be on the horizon. The government in the Sudan announced late last week that a referendum on partitioning the nation would be held in January of next year. Torn apart by ethnic and religious hatreds between the north and the south and genocide in the western ... Read More
From the Editor
In this issue, the HPR has stepped outside its comfort zone by choosing a Covers topic on a region which often gets short shrift in political circles around Harvard and the Institute of Politics. Africa might not seem as current as health care reform, and it might not seem as sexy as drug politics or financial reform, our two most ... Read More
Bono Saves Africa Again
Our cover here was a joke, but perhaps one not too far from the truth. Bono writes today as an op-ed guest columnist in the New York Times about the “rebooting” of Africa, and in his lilting prose, he’s actually pretty right. Development economics is a contentious and irreconcilable field; there are infinitely more questions than there are answers. In ... Read More
The Spring 2010 Issue of the HPR is out!
The Spring 2010 issue of the Harvard Political Review is available here in an online browseable pdf format. Most articles are also now available on HarvardPoliticalReview.com, and the rest will be rolling out soon. Harvard students, look for print copies in your house dining halls starting on Wednesday, and in Annenberg on Friday and Saturday! COVERS SECTION: AFRICA: READY TO ... Read More
“Africa: Why Do We Care?”
I would like to think that the Committee on African Studies’ decision to hold a panel event entitled “Africa in the Media” together with the Department of African and African American Studies just two weeks after I finished writing an article about the same subject (you can read it here) is more than mere coincidence. Of course I’m biased, but ... Read More
