Peter Karibe Mendy

Nov 21, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Sarah Miles |William Shoki |Peter Karibe Mendy

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? Following Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel that caused more than 1,200 fatalities, there was a barrage of injunctions from Western mainstream media, politicians, and pundits insisting that anybody wishing to express an opinion on the events and the ensuing Israeli war crimes and genocide in Gaza, first denounce Hamas before expressing any other view.

Oct 22, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Ray Bush |Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei |Peter Karibe Mendy

A new calendar year ushers in the usual array of tropes on Africa. They include why the continent is failing, what it should be doing better and why it has so much resilience in dealing with its own frailty. Overwhelmingly, Western institutions (NGOs, credit rating agencies) repeat tired mantras of the international financial institutions, ignoring the insights of African scholar-activists and the historical backdrop to the continent’s contemporary crises.