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A Tear for Africa: Humanitarian Abduction and Reduction
Helpless, pleading, wanting, needing, small, weak, staring at you, black–this is the anti-bogeyman invented by Western humanitarianism, what passes as morality in the ideology of empire (yet again). Past the time of a London Missionary Society, we now have the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the moral dogma of a white, western elite that projects its […]
Kenneth Anderson: Imperial Clash on the Congo Resource Front
January 18, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
I am grateful to Ken Anderson for notifying readers of this blog of his article published in The Public Record titled, “Imperial Clash on the Congo Resource Front” (16 December 2009). I had promised myself to feature this earlier, but as with so much other intended writing for this blog, a large backlog formed given […]
Anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani, among Top 10 of World’s Public Intellectuals
July 23, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
How about that? Foreign Policy has released its rankings, based on ballots cast, of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals, and Columbia University based, Ugandan anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani is ranked 9th — well ahead of the likes of Stephen Colbert who is sure to make some fuss about his lesser status. You can see the […]
KOBO•TOWN: The Promise of Independence
May 21, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
SING OUT, SHOUT OUT forty years ago today independence came our way welcomed by our struggling songs it came but would not stay and we, wanting to believe, let ourselves be deceived by the well-groomed speech of ambitious men who time proved to be thieves but the years went by and nothing came new flag, […]
Useful Anthropology (and “Political Gonorrhoea”)
May 16, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
A variety of thoughts on the “uses” and “usefulness” of anthropology were provoked by Lorenz Khazaleh’s synopsis on African anthropology, which also contains links to online papers of the World Anthropologies Network, a source of especial importance to some of the issues I wish to cover in this blog. Within the North American context it […]
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August 1, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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