Yearly Archives: 2013
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This time the Kenyan presidential election could have been about issues – By Andrew Green
Since multi-party democracy returned to Kenya in 1992, voting at election time has largely divided itself along ethnic lines. In 2007, when President Mwai Kibaki narrowly ... -
What Space for African Eyes? Travel Writing and Africa in the 21st century – By Fatimah Kelleher
Centuries old, travel writing has been instrumental in crafting perceptions of the world we live in; journeying authors have wielded significant influence over immobile audiences who ... -
The Africa Business Briefing Feb 2013: Instability in North Africa/It’s the economy, Zuma! – By Desné Masie
Q1 | January 2013 | February 2013 Desné Masie This is the first edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which will be published ... -
Chad Hosts Wanted Al-Bashir as Cí´te d’Ivoire Joins ICC – By Stephen Lamoney
As Cí´te d’Ivoire takes a major step towards ensuring accountability for grave crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Chad is once again failing to ... -
Ethnic politics on the Zimbabwean campaign trail: do voters really care? – By Marko Phiri
Since independence in 1980, there appears to have been an ingrained political psyche peculiar to Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland region, where the political landscape has been painted in ethnic colours. ... -
Waiting for a miracle in Congo: a peace process with many processes and no peace – By Kris Berwouts
Congo is on hold After M23 left Goma in early December, the military situation around the town stagnated. Apart from some repositioning in the hills around ... -
Why the next Pope should be African – By Richard Dowden
Over the decades that I have travelled in Africa I have met only four African atheists. Africans seem naturally networked to religion. All meetings “” on ... -
“˜Defending’ Zuma: why South Africa remains most attractive place to do business in Africa – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica
Have Africa analysts overcooked their “˜house views’ such that they are now tending to exaggerate the relative downsides of South Africa while overstating the upsides of ... -
Mali: Why the Hardest Part is Yet to Come – By Imad Mesdoua
Retaking the north was the easy part. Now Mali faces guerrilla attacks, reportedly increasing cooperation between rebel groups, ‘the Tuareg problem’, and a divided government. Early ... -
Joyce Banda: Between Saving the Economy and Winning Elections – By Jimmy Kainja
Last October the president of Malawi, Joyce Banda, told European Union delegates in Brussels that she was ready to sacrifice her political career for economic reforms ...
