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Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

To contextualize the violence that is blindly blamed on religion, this and the next few articles will address two questions.

First, what is the relationship between politics and violence? Second, how does modern politics, especially the nature of the modern state, produce “religious violence”?

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

Thinkers have long wondered why Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are called religions while Marxism, nationalism, liberalism, capitalism and football fanaticism are not seen as religions.

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

One of the half-truths prevalent in dominant discourses is that the Europeans were driven by religion to kill each other until the secular nation-state emerged and saved them.

In line with this vulgar historical account, analysts explain the violence of Muslim actors today as the consequence of the reluctance of Islam to secularize.

Author: Yahya Sseremba

Source: The Observer

I thank the editors of The Observer for allowing me to discuss the relationship between religion and political violence in a series of 10 articles.

Author: Yahya Sseremba.

Source: The Daily Monitor

Author: Henry Okidi Okoth

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We heartily congratulate three of our continuing students who have been awarded research scholarships in the African Fellows Program of the Harry Frank Guggenheim (HFG) Foundation. The fellowships, each worth US$ 10,000, were awarded on the strength of their ongoing doctoral work, titled as follows:

Kenechukwu Nwachukwu - "Nigeria’s Unresolved Political History and the Production of Violence Through Historical Narratives: The IPOB Question"