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Managing Risks in the Extractive Industries – By Lionel Badal
Rising demand fuelled by emerging countries, most notoriously China and India, has led to increased competition for natural resources. Despite recurrent volatility in the markets, the ... -
There was a Country: Chinua Achebe makes peace with Nigeria – By Tolu Ogunlesi
Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There was a Country, has appeared fifty-four years after the author’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, today arguably the best-known novel ever written ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: Guinea-Bissau, Coups and Africa’s Cocaine Equation – By Joseph Kirschke
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – a series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ... -
Ethiopia: a tale of two development models from the valley where we began – By Richard Dowden
Amentu, Ethiopia The Rift Valley in Eastern Africa is our hole in the ground, where we all come from. Not far from here our earliest ancestors ... -
Tanzania: natural gas boom masks degradation in rule of law and social stability – By Tom Savory and Subiro Mwapinga
Things are changing in Tanzania. Large gas finds off the country’s coastline look set to shake up a country generally considered in continental economic analysis as ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: focus on khat and the fight for legality – By Neil Carrier
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – a series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ... -
Mauritania: President’s shooting reveals military regime parading as a democracy – By Boubacar N’Diaye
When the news spread that Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania had been shot my reaction was, “it finally happened!” While many of the details of ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs – a review by Stephen Ellis
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – and series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: the West African cocaine trade is not just business as usual – By James Cockayne
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – and series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: fighting a-historical analysis of the West African trade – By Gernot Klantschnig
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – and series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ...
