Three Afro Tenors

Music Band

South Africa

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Tieku, Thomas Kwasi. “The Legon School of International Relations.” Review of International Studies 47, no. 5 (2021): 656–71. doi:10.1017/S0260210521000395.

The article explores the Legon School of International Relations (LSIR) which is the research, teaching, and academic programming of International Relations (IR) at the University of Ghana, Legon. The LSIR came out of attempts to decolonise knowledge production, dissemination, and academic programing in Ghana in early 1960s. The article shows that the LSIR is decolonial in theoretical perspective, grounded in southern epistemologies, relational in ontology, qualitative in methodology, practice-based, and it is equity-oriented. Although the LSIR scholarship as a package is distinctive, some of its ideas overlap with the work of several contemporary IR communities in the West. The article highlights implications of the LSIR story for the IR communities in the West and the value of paying close attention to the works of IR centres of scholarship in Africa.

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Tieku, Thomas Kwasi, and Megan Payler. "From Paternalism to the Chambas Formula for Mediation: Conceptualizing Cooperation between the UN and Regional Organizations in Mediating Conflicts", International Negotiation 27, 3 (2021): 448-474, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718069-bja10040

This article explores the working relationship between the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in mediating conflicts in West Africa and the Sahel regions. We argue that through the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), the UN, ECOWAS and the AU are working on mediation efforts to transcend traditional conceptualizations of the relationship between the world body and regional organizations. We show that the partnership is grounded on the logic of subsidiarity, informality, elite networks, technical competence, soft skills, and robust social trust. For heuristic purposes, we call the six principles the Chambas Formula, with reference to the centrality of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, and the emergence and consistent application of the principles in the mediation setting in West Africa and the Sahel regions.

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Tokini Peterside

Entrepreneur/ART X Lagos Founder

Nigeria

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Jean-Baptiste Tondji

Assistant Professor in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Contact: jeanbaptiste.tondji@utrgv.edu

Personal: tondji.jean@gmail.com

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Tranberg Hansen, Karen, and D. Soyini Madison, eds. African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality.

[Source: Bloomsbury Collections].

True Love

Magazine

South Africa

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TRUE LOVE is the iconic South African fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine for black women.

Turine, Roger-Pierre. Les arts du Congo: d’hier à nos jours [Congolese Arts: From Yesterday to Today]. Bruxelles: Renaissance du Livre, 2007.

This book invites the reader to discover the wealth and diversity of the young generation of Congolese artists whose emergence is a sign that Congo is finally coming out of artistic anonymity. Reference book and unique showcase of contemporary art, this book is the reflection of a country resolutely turned towards the future.

[Source: Amazon, adapted and translated from French].