Yearly Archives: 2014
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REVIEW: Rwanda 1994 – The Myth of the Akazu Genocide Conspiracy and Its Consequences
Review of Barrie Collins, Rwanda 1994: The Myth of the Akazu Genocide Conspiracy and Its Consequences, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014, £65. Keith Somerville – Challenging accepted ... -
Rethinking Zimbabwe to be retired
We have decided to “˜retire’ Rethinking Zimbabwe as an African Arguments blog with immediate effect. It was always the intention that blog strands would come and ... -
Murder of Senegalese migrant overshadows “radically new” politics of migration in Morocco – Sebastien Bachelet
Over the past few weeks, gruesome images have circulated depicting the ghastly murder of Charles Ndour, a twenty-five-year-old Senegalese migrant living in Morocco. Besides the outrage ... -
The President’s Bank: corruption allegations tarnish Somalia’s brave new world – By Jay Bahadur
The election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in September 2012 was heralded internationally as an almost messianic break from the past, an end to Somalia’s never-ending ... -
A year after Westgate: what has Kenya learned? – By Jeremy Lind and Patrick Mutahi
A year has passed since Al-Shabaab militants laid siege of the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi. The attack, believed to have been carried out by four ... -
ExIm Bank Reauthorization Critical for US-Africa Business – By Alyson McGee
The US Export-Import (ExIm) Bank has become the latest political football in Washington, as Democrats and Republicans argue over its value to the American economy. ExIm ... -
Federalist moves heighten Somalia’s natural resources debate – By Liban Ahmad
Two years have passed since Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia. He came in to office with a view ... -
Ebola outbreak highlights Liberia’s crisis of development policy – By Ashoka Mukpo
Before the 2011 presidential election in Liberia, I was relaxing on a beach in Monrovia when a man walked by wearing a t-shirt with a candidate’s ... -
Ivory, insurgency and crime in central Africa: the Sudans connection – By Keith Somerville
At the beginning of August, the minutes of a meeting of intelligence chiefs from African states were released, revealing the extent to which poaching and the ... -
Review: The New Radicals by Glenn Moss: A Generational Memoir of 1970s South Africa
The New Radicals: A Generational Memoir of the 1970s, Jacana Media, Auckland Park, 2014 Reviewed by Martin Plaut This book brought me up with a jolt; ...
