Yearly Archives: 2012
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African Arguments top article of the year: a competition
We’ve published a lot of articles this year on African Arguments across the 6 blogs, taking in the most important events and trends affecting the continent ... -
External Mission: The ANC in exile, 1960-1990, by Stephen Ellis – Review by Denis Herbstein
This is a book ANC-ologists will pore over (or maybe pour things over), dissect, discover what’s new, what’s already out in the open but newly contextualised, ... -
African Court Not Ready for International Crimes – By Stephen Lamony
African states must take lead in prosecution of grave crimes rather than diluting the mandate of an over-stretched regional court. The three year old impasse between ... -
FTSE ASEA Pan Africa Index Series: aiding investment with the brain – By James Duddridge, MP
When considering Africa, people do not generally think of sky scrapers, city dealers, affluent middle classes, bankers in suits, screens of numbers and the trading of ... -
Ghana: Elections As Usual – From IMANI Centre for Policy & Education, Ghana
By Franklin Cudjoe, Bright Simons, Selorm Branttie and Kofi Bentil. Ghanaians are voting for the next president of the longest-lived republic in their country’s history. Despite ... -
The U.S. Pivots (Slightly) Toward Africa – By Michael Keating
There is an old saying, “˜if you’re a hammer, you will see everything else as a nail.’ Today there is no bigger hammer in the world ... -
How childhood trauma of Somali refugees has shaped gang culture on Britain’s streets – By Ismail Einashe
I recently gave a talk for Radio 4’s Four Thought series, exploring the links between childhood war trauma suffered by young Somali men and the way ... -
Kenya: the rise of the “˜Uhuruto’ – By Daniel Waweru
Like the platypus, the Uhuruto “” the newly-unveiled political alliance featuring Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto (with a supporting cast of Musalia Mudavadi and Najib Balala) ... -
Sudan: belief that Khartoum regime will reform is misplaced – By Hamdan Mohamed Goumaa
The tendency by the United States and its allies to count on the existing regime in Khartoum to embark on serious reforms towards achieving genuine democracy ... -
Ghana Elections 2012: the power of the thumb – By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo
03/12/2012, Accra This is the last week before Ghana’s population exercises its civic right (popularly known as “˜krokromoti power’) to vote in presidential and legislative elections. ...
