DR Congo
Cobalt Red
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (2022) is a journalistic take on the mining of cobalt in DR Congo, written by Siddharth Kara (the author has published other books on modern slavery). This book focuses on cobalt, the mineral that is critical for nearly all of our rechargeable devices and […]
Murdering Patrice Lumumba
Having recently read and posted about the letters, writing and speeches of Patrice Lumumba, I was looking forward the book by Gerard and Kuklick (2015), published by Harvard, titled “Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba”. While it was well researched and interesting, it was a different book than what I was expecting, and I […]
Lumumba: May Our People Triumph
LeoPard books has collected the speeches, writings, letters and telegrams of the former Prime Minister of DR Congo, Patrice Lumumba in “May Our People Triumph” (2016). It also collects a set of articles written about him after his murder. The book has some editorial errors and formatting issues, but nonetheless is a useful collection to […]
Tags: #anti-colonialists #Dignity #DR Congo #DRC #Patrice Lumumba
The Great War of Africa
“Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa” by Jason K. Stearns (2011) “tells the story of the conflict that resulted from these regional, national, and local dimensions and that has lasted from 1996 until today” (p. 8). The author not only has a depth of […]
Post-doc: Power, Poverty & Politics
The International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam the Netherlands is seeking to fill three full-time (100%) vacancies for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher for a two year period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2018. We welcome applications from prospective postdoc researchers who are interested in doing operational research on […]
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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