Q&A with Mehari Taddele Maru
By Paula Akugizibwe and Mehari Maru Mehari Maru is an Addis Ababa-based consultant on international law, security and governance. He previously worked at the African Union Commission as Legal Expert, and as Coordinator of the AU’s Programme on Migration. CHRONIC: Two things stand out about the AU compared to the OAU – one is […]
Interview with Raila Odinga
The Chronic interviewed Raila Amollo Odinga at his Karen residence on the morning of 13 March 2013. He had held a press conference shortly after Issack Hassan, the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, had announced Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory. Odinga told the press that he rejected the outcome of the elections, declared that […]
Dear Chimurenga- The India-Pakistan Division
By Jon Soske The United Nation’s release of the agreement stipulating the “re-division” of India and Pakistan has shaken both countries. Signed by Gandhi, Jinnah and Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the document agrees to the redrawing of South Asia’s borders in the year 2014 on the basis of a more equitable division of economic and natural […]
A Black Writer Must Write About Sex
By Danny Laferiere America owes an enormous amount to Third World youth. I’m just not talking about historical debt (slavery, the rape of natural resources, the balance of payments, etc); there’s sexual debt too. Everything we’ve been promised by magazines, posters, the movies, television. America is a happy hunting ground, that’s what gets beaten into our […]
Melodious Thunk
By Geoff Dyer He didn’t like new things. Like a blind man, he preferred stuff he’d used for a long time, even small things like pens or knives, things he’d come to feel at home with. Walking with him one afternoon, we were waiting for the lights to change at a street corner near his […]