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Claim No Easy Victories
Given how little is available about or on Cabral, the edited collection by Firoze Manji and Bill Fletcher Jr (2013) is a welcome addition. The book is titled “Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral”, with 38 chapters and seven sections (many chapters are brief), including a chapter by the late Samir Amin. […]
Tags: #Amilcar Cabral #Cabral #Claim No Easy Victories #Culture #Return to the Roots
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
Ngugi wa Thiongo is a giant in the decolonization community, in 1986 he wrote Decolonizing the Mind, he also wrote Theory and the Politics of Knowing, Secure the Base, Something Torn and New, amongst many others (including a list of fiction works). This post shares some notes from his 1993 book Moving the Centre: The […]
Tags: #Cultural Freedom #decolonization #Language #Moving the Centre #Ngugi wa Thiongo
China’s Gilded Age
China’s Gilded Age (2020) by Yuen Yuen Ang is an accessible read that is well worth reading for multiple reasons. The book advances theoretical understandings on corruption and poverty, it presents creative methodologies that could inspire all sorts of new research, and presents unique findings that explain how China sustained high levels of economic growth […]
Tags: #China #Corruption #Development
Ebola and the Ravages of History
In Paul Farmer style, “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History” (2020) weaves together personal encounters with life histories, colonial histories, and public health. This is well worth the read – all 653 pages of it. When I picked up this book, we got the unfortunate news of the passing of Dr […]
Qatar: Political, Economic and Social Issues
Haitham M. Alkhateeb published “Qatar: Political, Economic and Social Issues” (I published a similar book with the same publisher, in the same year, on Ethiopia). Unfortunately this publisher charges an unacceptably high rate for books (both this book and the one I edited sell for US$230), which makes them largely inaccessible to most readers. I […]
The Creation of Qatar
The classic history of Qatar was written by Rosemarie Said Zahlan in 1979, titled The Creation of Qatar. The author is the sister of Edward Said (yes, the Edward Said), and she also wrote a history of the UAE (in 1978) and the region (in 1998). Zahlan’s book is a reference / source book for […]
Tags: #Creation of Qatar #History #Qatar #State of Qatar #Zahlan
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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