Category: Africa

On Mamdani and the Invention of Foreigners

DEK:  From indirect rule to Operation Dudula, the lines dividing citizen from stranger trace back to the way empire organized identity and labor. There’s no shortage of analysis when it comes to xenophobia in South Africa. We’ve heard it explained as the outcome of deep structural inequality, the failure of post-apartheid redistribution, or the slow-burning crisis […]

Behind the Youth Revolt

The number of mostly spontaneous mass protests in Africa has grown exponentially since the start of the 2010s and yet, it still has not registered in many decisionmakers’ minds that a sea change is afoot in our political economy. Africa has the youngest population in the world. A rapid acceleration of quality service delivery is required to make Africans unite behind some kind of social contract and yet, nowhere is there any sign of the urgency that is required. This explains the growing anger that wee see in the population. 

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