Yearly Archives: 2023
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Djibouti fiddles amid the scramble for the Red Sea
Gateway to the Indo-Pacific, Djibouti is becoming the site of a 21st century scramble for ports, military bases, and economic models. Today’s large-scale infrastructures that link ... -
Why France EACOP setback might embolden, not discourage, activists
Though the legal claim against TotalEnergies was dismissed on technicalities, it set some bold precedents. On 28 February, a French court declared an appeal against a ... -
The International Community Must Reconsider its Engagement with Somaliland
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Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill
As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni’s authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. On 1 March, 2023 the Ugandan parliament granted ... -
Why’s the AfDB siding with the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?
Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. After the ... -
The Covid Consensus, African Studies and Internationalism
The debate on Covid three years later -
Who wants to hear about White Saviourism gone wrong?
A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It’s been rapturously received in ... -
What next in Chakwera’s anti-corruption crusade in Malawi?
A scandal from the last regime forced the president to fire senior officials, suspend his VP and risk breaking the ruling coalition. The arrest of ... -
“Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”
An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum’s 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. AFRICAN ARGUMENTS: First, ...
