So I keep reading stories about foreign governments like China, the Gulf States and South Korea that are planning on buying millions of acres of Africa’s arable land in order to provide food security for their citizens. From what I gather, most...

“I saw one house with the bodies of 10 men on the floor. They had all been killed by spears - whoever killed them did not want to waste any bullets.”

Kizzie Shawkat is the pen name of the author responsible for the I Have No Tribe, I’m Sudanese blog. She is a Sudanese woman and student of communications and sociology in Cairo. Born in Sudan, Kizzie grew up in Libya, Qatar and the United Arab...