This paper tested competing arguments that foreign aid can substantially aggravate the patterns of underdevelopment in previous British colonies. I followed the Center for Global Development in taking into account Amartya Sen’s...
For more information on the published version, visit Stanford University Press's Website., Between 1974 and 1977, the Sociedade Agricola do Cassequel, Angola's most technologically advanced and profitable sugar plantation,...
This article examines the practice of “carpeteo ,” or politicized police surveillance and targeted harassment, during the 2010 and 2011 student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). LeBrón argues that police and...
My interest in studying the Anglophone Crisis began during my study abroad experience in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in the spring of 2018. I felt the impact of the conflict escalating throughout my time there, as my ability to freely...
Angola’s contemporary political boundaries resulted from 20th-century colonialism. The roots of Angola, however, reach far into the past. When Portuguese caravels arrived in the Congo River estuary in the late 15th century,...
The Spanish colonial project of the sixteenth century was undergirded by a unique political structure that was critical to its success. I argue that this political structure is characterized by a system of checks and balances...
Published as: Ball, Jeremy. Staging of Memory: Monuments, Commemoration, and the Demarcation of Portuguese Space in Colonial Angola. Journal of Southern African Studies 44, no. 1 (2018): 77-96....
For more information on the published version, visit the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Website., En 1947, la revista Asomante conmemoró el cuarto centenario del nacimiento de Miguel de Cervantes con un número especial...
