Yearly Archives: 2024
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Epidemic Preparedness: The Importance of Local Adaptation
The role of local agency in epidemic preparedness: Covid-19 four years on -
Rwanda: The eternal sunshine of the spotless election
Kagame’s latest electoral victory is testimony to the impressive work of the electoral commission in moulding the numbers to fit predetermined results. At the 15 July ... -
A story within a story: The making and unmaking of Ethiopia’s imperial messiah
This unauthorised biography of Abiy Ahmed is a nuanced, unsparing examination of a leader trying to hold together a republic being undone by its imperial legacy. ... -
The rise of the African left
Bassirou Faye and PASTEF’s victory in Senegal in March marked the stunning, decade-long rise of a leftist party. As Africa’s Gen Z protest movements challenge the ... -
Debt and the Gen Z protests: The moral economy of the African crowd
A generation after the 1980s debt crisis triggered the rebirth of democracy on the continent, will Kenya’s youthful idealists spark a pan-African revolt? The protests in ... -
Opening the Gate: Rural Hunger and the Limits of Absentee Welfarism in South Africa
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Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books”
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki Bgoya, speaks ... -
SBTi’s controversial shift has given a new lifeline to the carbon offset ruse
The climate target body should follow the science and limit the use of carbon offsets to where there is really no other way. Update: On the ... -
Towards a Sustainable Blue Economy for Africa
The unfulfilled promise of Africa's marine and water resources
