Yearly Archives: 2014
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REVIEW: “˜Betrayed’ by Seth Kaplan – A new approach to solving global poverty or a naí¯ve paean of praise for growth?
Seth D. Kaplan, Betrayed: Politics, Power and Prosperity, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013 The description of this book on the back cover, below the hearty endorsement from Jerry ... -
Burundi 2015: Nkurunziza prepares ground for a third term – By Dr. Stephanie M Burchard
Over the next few years, several countries in the Africa Great Lakes region are scheduled to hold presidential elections where the incumbent is constitutionally prevented from ... -
South Sudan: trading peace for power – An essay by Andrew Green
On February 15th, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir stepped out for a rare public appearance. The youth wing of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) ... -
Sheffield Council votes for Somaliland independence – By Magnus Taylor
A council in the British city of Sheffield has voted in support of independence for the Horn of Africa’s famous non-state state, Somaliland. Somaliland declared independence ... -
Kenya’s anti-terror strategy begins to emerge – By Ben Rawlence
It’s precisely a year to the day since the Jubilee alliance took control of Kenya’s government under a cloud of controversy over a flawed election and ... -
Death and Identity in Rwanda – By Richard Dowden
I don’t know why I keep them, but I have never been able to just throw them away. Two small green folded cards found at a ... -
What does Nigeria’s new GDP number actually mean? – By Morten Jerven
So it’s official. The long overdue and widely anticipated GDP revision in Nigeria has arrived. And it was certainly worth the wait. It is bigger and ... -
Nigeria is losing this war: here’s how to win the fight against Boko Haram – By Andrew Noakes
After months of emergency rule and military operations in Nigeria’s north-east, a few weeks ago Boko Haram launched a comprehensive and audacious assault on Maiduguri, the ... -
‘Not My worst Day’: reflections on Rwanda at 20 – By Alex Ntung
It was the middle of the night when we arrived in Kigali and the first thing that struck me about this war-devastated city was the continual ... -
Finally, Kenya Arrests Radical Cleric Shaikh Hassaan – By Hassan M. Abukar
Two days ago, Kenyan security officers raided the house of Shaikh Hassaan Hussein Adam “˜Abu Salman’, a radical cleric known for his support of Al-Shabaab. The ...
