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Remembered: The genocide of the Tutsi was not the product of primordial tribal feeling but it was the product of a political project, carefully constructed over decades. Photo: Rwanda Government
BUKAVU

Becoming umwana – a son: Part 2

The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to…

  • Nelson Gashagaza
4 min read
Engraved in memory: The Kigali Genocide Memorial engenders remembrance of the genocide’s victims, promoting peace and reconciliation and building peace through education. Photo: Supplied
BUKAVU

Becoming Umwana – a son

In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he…

  • Nelson Gashagaza
6 min read
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (1937–2025) was a prominent American political scientist and statesman, best known for developing the concept of soft power—a relatively recent addition to the elaborate sophistry of international politics.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International relations: More sophistry than science

Calling this sophistry is not polemical. Sophistry was never about lying outright. It was about persuasive coherence in the service of authority. IR excels at this. It teaches…

  • Kweku Ampiah
8 min read
ANDY BAKER

Prisons, profits and privatisation’s perils

We are bound to run into trouble when the private sector is given free rein to determine who is deserving of being treated as human and who is not

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
CONTROL

South Africa – where hope dances with despair

With nothing to look forward to and no respect, how can we expect unemployed, beaten-down young people to behave as if they have a stake in the future?

  • Hugo ka Canham
7 min read