Sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership and The World Peace Foundation, one of the Fletcher School’s most active research centers, the new podcast series “African Voices, African Arguments” explores issues of peace, justice, and democracy.

After arriving home from my two-week study abroad, I was lost for what to do with myself. Sent back before the program even began, the next six months of my calendar – March through the start of school in September - were suddenly very open; the only scheduled event was my mandatory quarantine beginning just after landing at JFK.

“There isn’t an avenue to address your qualm and it’s by design. The system was not intended for that, there was never a democratic rule of law. Anyone can be arrested, and you don’t have the right to advocate for your child or family. That’s how they always meant for it to function.”