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The continent of hope?

AFRICA: La speranza africana is based on interviews with African friends and travels in Egypt, Ethiopia and South Africa. Federico Rampini tells about violence and uncertainty, about murder and injustice, about corruption, inequality and poverty.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Muslim elites, exercise of power and terror

AFRICA: What can a book say about Boko Haram or the porous border between today's Cameroon and today's Chad? Or about the pre-colonial kingdom of Kanem-Bornu?
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Child soldiers and child terrorists

ICE: We can not immediately compare the children from Islamic State with child soldiers, analyzes American terrorist researcher. Many of them no longer consider themselves children. Turning the time back to becoming regular school students again therefore seems almost impossible.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Politics, spirituality and religion under the sun of Africa

Religion gets too much room in analyzes of African conflicts, states state scientist Jean-François Bayart.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Nuanced about Boko Haram

Over the past three years, Hilary Matfess has interviewed a number of women who have been liberated from Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria. She challenges the reader to nuance her image of the group.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

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