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Governing Conservation Change from Below

A Reaction to “Africa’s Environment: The Final Frontier, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, July 17, 1996.” by Richard R. Marcus Note: Statements at the Hearing were made by the following: Hon. Gary Bombardier, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa, Agency […]

On the Subject of Kings and Queens: “Traditional” African Leadership and the Diasporal Imagination

by Al-Yasha Ilhaam Williams Abstract “Then you will die indeed, Chila Kintasi!  Your own mouth pronounced judgment.  Die and deliver the land from the abominations of drunkenness and gluttony.  (She used a bunch of soft feather [sic] attached on a bamboo stick on the Fon [King].  The Fon begins to reel until he collapses.)  Die!  […]