African Arguments
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As the House Burns, Whither the Zimbabwean Opposition? – By Nicole Beardsworth
The Zimbabwean economy is going through structural regression, with rapid deindustrialisation, burgeoning external debt, an over 85% formal unemployment rate and nominal growth due ... -
What Chance a Nuclear Future in Nigeria? – By Dr Tomiwa O. Erinosho
Nigeria, a country endowed with numerous natural energy resources such as crude oil, gas, coal, hydro, wind, biomass, solar, geothermal, tidal and even uranium ... -
Sudan Elections: Champion Won – By Alex de Waal
Five years ago, the center of Khartoum was dominated by campaign posters showing President Omar al Bashir””and advertisements showing a handsome young man drinking ... -
Sudan Elections: rumours of NCP’s death are greatly exaggerated – By James Copnall
It looks like a funeral, it sounds like a funeral – but it isn’t, not really. The men pick up an angharaib, its wooden ... -
Africa’s New Oil: power, pipelines and future fortunes – By Celeste Hicks. Profiled by Magnus Taylor
Celeste Hicks is the former BBC correspondent in Chad and Mali and an editor on BBC Africa service news programmes. Her new book, Africa’s New ... -
South Sudan: who got what? – Brilliant new comic by Alex de Waal and Victor Ndula
The below comic was produced as a collaboration between the World Peace Foundation, the Cartoon Movement and the Justice and Security Research Programme of ... -
Bona Malwal’s Truths – By Alex de Waal
Bona Malwal, Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two, London, Routledge, 2014. Bona Malwal’s political memoir is a complete resemblance of the man ... -
Burkina Faso’s popular revolution fraying at the edges – By Valérie Arnould
The ousting of Burkina Faso’s long-standing President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014 raised high hopes for a democratic transition in the country. Compaoré was ... -
New EU approach to Horn of Africa migration sets worrying precedent – By Maimuna Mohamud and Dr. Cindy Horst
The humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, in which thousands of migrants have drowned attempting to cross into Europe, highlights the urgency there is to ... -
Understanding Boko Haram’s Mass Abductions – By Michael Baca
The first anniversary of the Chibok kidnappings served as a grim reminder of Boko Haram’s proclivity toward abducting noncombatants. While comprehensive statistics remain absent, ...
