Yearly Archives: 2014
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Nigeria’s economic transition reveals deep structural distortions – By Zainab Usman
According to recently reviewed GDP figures, Nigeria is now Africa’s biggest economy. It was about time a more accurate measure of economic output, which captures Nigerians’ ... -
Rejecting the West on policy: Uganda, neoliberalism and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill – By Jí¶rg Wiegratz
Much has already been written about the standoff between Uganda and the West on the recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Bill. For various analytical takes concerning the drivers, ... -
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai & Biti should work together; they need each other – By Simukai Tinhu
In 1998 two aspiring politicians met to plot the beginnings of a movement that would change Zimbabwe’s political landscape for more than a decade. One of ... -
“We shall manage you”: Oil, NGOs and journalists in Uganda – By Magnus Taylor
As part of a recent research trip to Kampala I spent some time tracking down and talking to representatives of civil society and the media working ... -
Hybrid Governance in Africa: Buzzword or Paradigm Shift? – By Kate Meagher, Tom De Herdt and Kristof Titeca
Over the past five years, the term “˜hybrid governance’ has become an increasingly trendy concept in research on state-building and local order in fragile regions of ... -
South Sudan: how hate radio was used to incite Bentiu massacres – By Keith Somerville
The spectre of ethnically-motivated killings, and the use of ethnic rivalry or hatred to mobilize and incite one community against another, hangs over the conflict in ... -
Malawi: Divided opposition likely to hand President Banda another term – By Frank Jomo
On May 20th this year, the southern African nation of Malawi will go to the polls to elect a president, members of parliament and local government ... -
How to tackle the DRC’s complex anti-impunity agenda – By Sharanjeet Parmar
To date, there have been no effective responses to impunity for perpetrators of international crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which have been on ... -
We Must End Boko Haram’s War on Children – By Debbie Ariyo
The news that over 200 school children were last week abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist group in North East Nigeria makes for depressing reading. Pupils ... -
Save the miniskirt! Why Do Generations Divide Over The African Way? – By Elsie Eyakuze
There is a trend emerging in social media, mostly amongst people in their 30s and 40s and sometimes even 50s that consists of sharing family pictures ...
