We begin this week’s episode talking about the resignation of Algerian president Bouteflika, mistrust challenging response to the Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo, and we mark the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.
This week’s conversation is with Muna Ndulo, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International & Comparative Law at Cornell Law School. Professor Ndulo is an expert on constitution making, governance and institution building, international criminal law, African legal systems, and human rights. Rachel sat down with Prof Ndulo and asked him about international financial transparency, investment vs. insurgency in Northern Mozambique, the role of the judiciary in African elections, and the confrontation of customary law and gender equality in the colonial and contemporary periods.
Books, Links, & Articles
- “Community mistrust worsening DR Congo Ebola outbreak: study.” by Al Jazeera Staff
- “Institutional trust and misinformation in the response to the 2018–19 Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, DR Congo: a population-based survey.” published in The Lancet
- “Public health and public trust: Survey evidence from the Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in Liberia.” by Robert Blair, Benjamin Morse, and Lily Tsai
- “Many Africans see Kagame’s Rwanda as a model. They are wrong.” by The Economist Sfaff
- “Rwanda.” by Marjorie Agosín
- Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Timothy Longman
- Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda by Timothy Longman
- Making Africa Work: A Handbook by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, and Dickie Davis