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Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
- 08 April 2026,
- Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…...
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Do You Know Your South?: How Magazine Readers Shaped one of the South’s Most Successful Novels
- 24 February 2026,
- Midway through Chester Himes’s 1945 novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, the main characters argue over the comparative merits of Richard Wright’s Native Son and...
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Framing Corruption: The Discourse in Operation Lava Jato and the Judicial Activism in Brazil
- 04 February 2026,
- For years, Operation Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) was the “spectacle” of Latin American politics. From 2014 to 2021, the world watched as a group...