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We Have Never Been Modern
That was 1993, via Latour: “On page four of my daily newspaper, I learn that the measurements taken above the Antarctic are not good this year: the hole in the ozone layer is growing ominously larger. Reading on, I turn from upper-atmosphere chemists to Chief Executive Officers of Atochem and Monsanto, companies that are modifying […]
Tags: #Latour #Modern #Modernism #Modernity
Arab Development Denied
I have covered many critical assessments of development on this blog. However, comparatively few have covered the Middle East and North Africa region. Was pleased to come across “Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment” by Ali Kadri (2015). The region has had diverse historical and contemporary experiences and I found several […]
Tags: #Ali Kadri #Arab Development Denied #Arab World #Middle East #North Africa
Samora Machel
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short” (2020), by Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman. Like the books on Nkrumah and Cabral, this one […]
Tags: #Colonialism #Isaacman #Mozambique #Samora Machel #solidarity
Amilcar Cabral
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Amilcar Cabral: Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary” (2019), by Peter Karibe Mendy. This book in relatively longer in this series, like the Nkrumah book, […]
Tags: #Amilcar Cabral #Colonial Logic #Racism #solidarity #White Supremacy
Kwame Nkrumah
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation” (2021), by Jeffrey S. Ahlman. The book is contextualized beyond biographical detail, with details of the events occurring […]
Tags: #Colonialism #Ghana #Kwame Nkrumah #Liberation #Self-determination
Julius Nyerere
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Julius Nyerere” (2017), by Paul Bjerk. A few notes: “Upon returning he was told he no longer had a job at St. Francis […]
Tags: #History #Julius Nyerere #Paul Bjerk #Tanzania #Ujamaa
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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