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Africa and the War on Drugs: a new book and online debate from African Arguments
On 22nd October the RAS, Zed Books and the International African Institute will be launching (at SOAS) the latest book in the African Arguments series, Africa ... -
Sudan and South Sudan: Reviewing the 2012 Addis Ababa Peace Agreements (part II) – By Aly Verjee
Part one of this article examined the details of the security and border protocols agreed in the new Cooperation Agreement between Sudan and South Sudan. To ... -
Mali: military intervention is necessary, inevitable but (until now) impossible – By Gregory Mann
Nobody seems to know what to do about Mali. In late September, the world’s biggest tradeshow in global governance – the UN General Assembly – wound ... -
Mo Ibrahim Index and Governance Prize: time to stop measuring leaders and start rewarding countries? – By Dele Meiji Fatunla
This year’s launch of the Mo Ibrahim Index on Governance and the Mo Ibrahim Prize for leadership was full of signs and signals. In a signal ... -
Ozwald Boateng: unlikely champion of the African Development Bank – By Dele Meiji Fatunla
When the African Development Bank announced its decision to launch a $ 22 billion bond to its member states it found an unlikely supporter in Ghanaian ... -
‘Ten weeks in Africa’: aid industry skewered in new novel – By Peter Gill
The aid world needs to look to its laurels if it is to avoid becoming the target of a new generation of novelists. Those of us ... -
An African Ode to the Glorious European Union on its Ascension to NOBELity – By Bright Simons
Your Excellencies, the European Union, We salute you! We bring, from the awed continent of Africa, presents. Gold, myrrh, and frankincense, we pray thee, accept. Since ... -
Time to improve state participation in Africa’s extractive industries – By Zanele Hlatshwayo
The rise in commodities prices over the past decade (referred to by some economists as the “˜commodities super-cycle’) has led to a renewed debate on the ... -
Congo: crisis in East deflects attention from need for reforms from Kinshasa – By Gí¼nther v. Billerbeck at Good Governance Group (G3)
The current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North and South Kivu provinces is yet another episode in the epic conflict that has engulfed ... -
“˜There Was a Country’: a review of Chinua Achebe’s Biafran memoir – By Ike Anya
In our house in Nsukka, the small university town in eastern Nigeria where I grew up, my parents’ bedroom harboured a cupboard, reached only by standing ...
