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Kenya: Revisiting Joel Barkan’s Possibility of a Requiem – By Leonerd Wanyama
The Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) recently posted on its website a Contingency Planning Memorandum on Electoral Violence in Kenya. The document seems to have gained ... -
Kenya transfixed by its illiberal and rightwing gang of eight – By Daniel Waweru
It’s often said that Kenya’s political parties lack any ideological underpinning. The recent pair of Presidential debates shows this false. The discussion of economic policy at ... -
This time the Kenyan presidential election could have been about issues – By Andrew Green
Since multi-party democracy returned to Kenya in 1992, voting at election time has largely divided itself along ethnic lines. In 2007, when President Mwai Kibaki narrowly ... -
What Space for African Eyes? Travel Writing and Africa in the 21st century – By Fatimah Kelleher
Centuries old, travel writing has been instrumental in crafting perceptions of the world we live in; journeying authors have wielded significant influence over immobile audiences who ... -
The Africa Business Briefing Feb 2013: Instability in North Africa/It’s the economy, Zuma! – By Desné Masie
Q1 | January 2013 | February 2013 Desné Masie This is the first edition of our Africa Business Briefing, which will be published ... -
Chad Hosts Wanted Al-Bashir as Cí´te d’Ivoire Joins ICC – By Stephen Lamoney
As Cí´te d’Ivoire takes a major step towards ensuring accountability for grave crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Chad is once again failing to ... -
Waiting for a miracle in Congo: a peace process with many processes and no peace – By Kris Berwouts
Congo is on hold After M23 left Goma in early December, the military situation around the town stagnated. Apart from some repositioning in the hills around ... -
Why the next Pope should be African – By Richard Dowden
Over the decades that I have travelled in Africa I have met only four African atheists. Africans seem naturally networked to religion. All meetings “” on ... -
“˜Defending’ Zuma: why South Africa remains most attractive place to do business in Africa – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica
Have Africa analysts overcooked their “˜house views’ such that they are now tending to exaggerate the relative downsides of South Africa while overstating the upsides of ... -
Mali: Why the Hardest Part is Yet to Come – By Imad Mesdoua
Retaking the north was the easy part. Now Mali faces guerrilla attacks, reportedly increasing cooperation between rebel groups, ‘the Tuareg problem’, and a divided government. Early ...
