Some observations on race and security in South Africa
The writer, an anthropologist, gets a quick lesson on race and crime on a visit to South Africa.
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Mats Utas
Mats Utas is a cultural and social anthropologist specialised primarily in conflict studies, and secondly urban studies.
Stories that will Remain in Darkness
The shortcomings of the film “Shado’man,” a documentary about Freetown, Sierra Leone’s handicapped ‘street boys.’
The verdict on Charles Taylor
A comment on the enigmatic, and ambivalent, presence of rebel leader and former president, Charles Taylor, ten years after he left Liberia.
The return of the one party state
The regime of Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Liberia’s first post-conflict president, is increasingly guilty of lack of accountability and abetting corruption.