African Arguments
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Ethiopia Counts Coffee at the Wrong End
On July 7, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told Parliament that Ethiopia had earned a record $3.1 billion from coffee exports. Six days later, the ... -
Malawi’s economic crisis: Can recovery begin?
Almost nine months after Malawian President Peter Mutharika returned to power, his administration finds itself grappling with a severe and protracted economic crisis. The ... -
Tanzania’s VAT Refund Revolution: The Quiet Reform That Could Unlock Billions in Private Investment
When governments unveil annual budgets, headlines focus on the big numbers: spending, growth and tax collection. But sometimes the real story sits quietly in ... -
The Beijing of It All: Africa’s Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels
In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa’s development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this ... -
Walking with the Herd – Why Africa Must Rethink Its Oldest Economy
When pastoralists, researchers, policymakers and development practitioners gathered in Marsabit this year to mark the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP-2026), the conversations ... -
Somalia: A Government With One Foot Out the Door
Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, ... -
A Century of Agricultural Investment in Sudan: Why Has Development Failed?
This article is translated and adapted from an Arabic article published in Sudanese Online. The ideas reflect arguments presented by the author in his ... -
Present but Displaced: What Western Objections to Reparations Fail to See
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans the ... -
What young Kenyan men say when no one is watching
A young Kenyan man recently sent this anonymous message to a chatbot late at night: “Mbogi wanasema mimi si mwanaume nisipolala na huyo mama… ... -
Anatomy of a Failure: How Tunisia’s Democracy Was Undermined
Internal political betrayal, external cynicism, and the unravelling of the Arab Spring’s last laboratory. On 25 July 2026, thousands of Tunisians took to the ...
