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Bashir and South African Foreign Policy: Beyond Considerations of African Unity – By Christopher Williams
The diplomatic and legal crisis precipitated by Omar al-Bashir’s “escape” from Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria on June 15 has prompted a heated debate amongst ... -
The rise and paradoxes of pan-Africanism today
Of the numerous concepts which have influenced Black Africa since the wave of independence in the 1960s, pan-Africanism is, after democracy, probably the most popular. Paradoxically, ... -
Family therapy: Dynasty and change in Uganda – By Angelo Izama
If it were not such serious business, Uganda’s present political drama would make a great plot (with cast included) for a TV drama series entitled The ... -
Three Lessons in Repression from Khartoum to Juba – By Katie Campo
Civil society activists in Khartoum suffered at the hands of Sudanese authorities for decades, but there was hope for South Sudanese activists after the country seceded ... -
Zimbabwe: why Kasukuwere cannot beat Mnangagwa to the post-Mugabe succession – By Simukai Tinhu
Saviour Kasukuwere has become something of a permanent fixture in President Mugabe’s government. The youthful minister, who has risen rapidly through the ranks, and currently serves ... -
Blessed rain and old faces: Pa’gan Amum’s return to the SPLM – By James Copnall in Juba
President Salva Kiir watched, motionless, as Pa’gan Amum was sworn in, and then the two men shook hands as the cameras flashed, before ululations and the ... -
Liberating African Economic History from the Tyranny of Econometrics – By Alex de Waal
Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong, London, Zed, 2015 There is a longstanding joke about Sudanese statistics: 87.7% of official figures are made up ... -
Understanding Musa Hilal and Mohamed Hamdan “Hametti” in Sudanese politics – By Hamdan Goumaa
The current regime in Sudan under the National Congress Party (NCP) has managed to survive, in part, by manipulating ethnic and other interest groups to gain ... -
REVIEW Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency – By Virginia Comolli
Virginia Comolli, Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency, London: Hurst and Co, 2015, pp 239 inc. index, £20. Reviewed by Keith Somerville “Nigerian civilians find themselves stuck ... -
From Burundi to Nigeria: Power to the people in Africa? – By Simon Freemantle
Last month Zedi Feruzi, the leader of the opposition party United for Peace and Development (UPD) in Burundi, was gunned down in the streets of the ...
