Steve Biko on our shelves

So, the Chair of African Legal Studies has just restructured a particular section of its library by stocking it with books that are predominantly on colonialism and racism. My first…

Celebrating a Salient Revolution – Towards Black Economic Empowerment in South African Mining Law

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…

“By Any Means Necessary”: Remembering Malcom X and his Abrasive Racial Separatism Approach

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…

(In)destructibility of Neo-Colonial Knowledge Production – Decolonisation in the Representation of Research Subjects

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…

Colonial Legacy and the Nubians in Kenya: A Question of Identity

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…

Celebrating Steve Biko Ingeminating Black Consciousness

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…

The Declaration on the Abolition of Slave Trade by the Congress of Vienna (1815)

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…

A Good Deed for Liberia?

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…