While the harms of child labour are undisputed and human rights discourse has for decades tried to find solutions, the complexity of the subject remains. It has not been enough to identify the effects of child labour on the lives these children. Rather, it has proven equally important to understand the causes of child labour,…
OPINION Dr Bright Nkrumah 11 March 2022 The State of Affairs At the turn of the millennium, a growing number of young Africans have joined global movements to agitate for climate justice. [i] The notion of climate justice could be simply construed as the moral or legal obligation of states to use natural resources fairly…
ANALYSIS Gift Mauluka 04 March 2022 During the recent Conference of Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow, the High-Level Climate Champions formally reported to the parties on the progress made by non-state actors towards the climate action. They stressed that actions by individual actors will not yield to the reduction of the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions…
ANAYLSIS Ange Dorine Irakoze 28 February 2022 The month of February is devoted to celebration of Black men and women who brawled for civil rights to establish social justice and fight against apartheid. In the course of the apartheid era, the South African mining industry was under control of white people ‘conglomerates since the discovery…
ANALYSIS Kilili Nthiw’a 27 February 2022 Earlier this week on Monday the 21st February 2022, Malcom X would have been approximately three months shy of his 97th birthday. It marked the 57th anniversary of the death of the man who was once under the radar of the Federal Bureau of Investigations with former American chief…
OPINION Isabelle Zundel 27 February 2022 In another blog contribution in July 2021, I stressed the importance of “Decolonizing Law and its Practitioner’s Minds”. Today, I would like to continue and add on this discussion. It is striking to see the dominance of neo-colonial thought building as well as the insufficient or even lacking pushbacks…
ANALYSIS Cecilia Ngaiza 25 February 2022 The narration of the black history in relation to the aftermath of colonialism in the post-colonial Africa encompasses the question of damaged identity to some African ethnic communities to the expense of experiencing barriers to the enjoyment of the right to citizenship. A specific example to this dark side…
COMMENT Dr. Serawit Debele 18 February 2022 February is that time of the year when a whole month is dedicated to Black people to celebrate themselves and be celebrated by well-meaning, diversity and inclusion-sensitive nonblack denizens. The theme for this year’s Black History Month is “Black Health and Wellness”. Ironically, the pandemic has made apparent…
ANALYSIS Prof. Dr. Bernd Kannowski 11 February 2022 Black history is a history of struggles for freedom. Today, we are still fighting structural racism and everyday discrimination. A few decades ago, it was the fight for civil rights and the fight against apartheid. A step even further back into history, we remember the struggle for…
COMMENT Dr. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen 04 February 2022 Black History Month is undoubtedly a product of the United States, and in particular of Black American struggle in that specific nation. But with an eye on history, we can gain an appreciation for “countless” intersections of Black American and African pasts and presents. From the folds of…