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Baie lekker in South Africa, my bru.

26/08/201727/08/2017 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

‘What travel tips do you have for South Africa?’ I would get this question increasingly for the past two years. But not without any legit reason: I have been infected by a South-Africa-loving virus since my studies there in 2015. With loads of curiosity I engaged in the country’s history…

Good Hope? A reflection on an exhibition on South Africa – the Netherlands relations since 1600.

13/06/201715/06/2017 by Anissa Buzhu

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February 17th 2017. Adriaan van Dis, a well respected intellectual TV personality and author, took part in a Dutch talk show (De Wereld Draait Door) to give an announcement on an exhibition kicking off on the relationship between the Netherlands and South Africa since 1600. ‘What happens when a bunch…

China: flipping the (non)-interfering coin

11/02/201713/02/2017 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

Africa as a natural resource rich continent has attracted many non-African states to invest and trade. Both Western countries and China have been engaged in Africa for centuries (Dorman, 2014). However, there have been significant differences in terms of approach. Western diplomacy is characterised by interfering with the alter nation’s…

Namibia: the good, bad and its cry for dignity.

11/12/201611/12/2016 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

Namibia. - As part of a self enriching journey, I have lived in South Africa for half a year during 2015. Only a few weeks before my return to the Netherlands, I drove with two travel companions to beautifully diverse neighbouring country Namibia. This blog is not so much touching…

Queen Bee?!

04/12/201611/01/2017 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

The 'Gender Gap' policy, with its purpose to increase the number of women up to 30% in top positions on the workforce, has been reached in Dutch governmental organizations (note: not in business life). Now what? It's not that all of a sudden we have become more he for she;…

Fantastic Four Soups

23/10/2016 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

It's getting colder in the northern hemisphere. And I don't like it. But, I do have to admit that I am able to enjoy a cold Autumn Sunday afternoon as it serves a perfect experimental getaway in the kitchen. There is no day during Autumn and Winter that goes by…

Brainiac Capetownian food

28/08/201628/08/2016 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

Whenever I would arrive in Cape Town, I would always make sure to pay a visit to Nü lunchroom in Green Point. Not only do they serve very healthy and tasty food, but most of their dishes consists of yoghurt as part of the ingredients; and all their smoothies have frozen yoghurt…

Exclusive interview | Activist Mercedes Zandwijken

07/08/201611/08/2016 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

🎥 NTR ‘Podium on Tour' 🇬🇧 Read the interview in ENGLISH here. In een knus huis in Amsterdam Oost tref ik de energieke Mercedes aan. Mijn te vroeg getimede binnenkomst resulteerde erin dat ik nog even door haar boekenkast mocht wurmen. ‘Jij leest nu Fanon, toch? Ik wil graag Dubois…

Review | Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of the Third World Revolution (by Leo Zeilig)

24/07/201607/08/2016 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, colonized by the French, in 1925. Back then he used to perceive himself as a French subject and moved to France to study psychiatry, by which he later became a doctor. Only then he realized through racism that his identity was not in congruence…

Petition: Racial justice in the US

14/07/201614/07/2016 by Anissa Buzhu

Anissa Buzhu

Last week, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling “joined a long list of black people in America whose seemingly mundane actions have led to their deaths by Police Officers. The #WeAreHereMovement partnered with Mic and many other friends and supporters to highlight these horrifying, “23 Everyday Actions Punishable by Death if You’re Black…

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