African Arguments
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On Power and Equatorians in South Sudan – By Brian Adeba
One of the consequences of South Sudan’s descent into civil war in December 2013 is the polarisation of the country’s communities along ethnic lines, ... -
Sudan election events with MSOS, 25th March
Making Sense of the Sudans is holding a half day of events on Sudan’s upcoming election. This consists of a high-level roundtable in the ... -
Nigeria Elections 2015: A Different Kind of Politics – By Mark Amaza
Nigeria’s 2015 elections are the country’s most hotly contested since the return to democracy sixteen years ago. For the first time, there is a ... -
The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis – reviewed by Desné Masie
Tom Burgis’ The Looting Machine is a rollercoaster read. Filled with vignettes on spooks, smugglers and kleptocratic warlords with suitcases of cash, it reads ... -
Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War – By Mike Smith. Reviewed by Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar
“I’m not scared because I think the worst has happened,” says a 14-year-old girl who defied Boko Haram’s burning of her school by continuing ... -
What Chance for a Power Sharing Peace in South Sudan? – By Tongun Lo Loyuong
The collapse of the IGAD-led power sharing negotiations on South Sudan revealed the inherent flaw with the process and justified various critiques that many ... -
Somalia: reject ‘indirect elections’, Somalis should settle only for the real thing – By Mohamed
About a month ago, an opinion piece advocating for “indirect elections” in Somalia in 2016 was posted on these boards. The argument is that ... -
Magnificent & Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War – By Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Reviewed by Lara Pawson – Reading this book, I began to wonder if its author is, in fact, the real-life incarnation of HG Well’s ... -
Peacekeepers in Congo: Changing the Mandate – By Timo Muller
Members of the United Nations Security Council will convene this Thursday in New York to discuss the performance of MONUSCO – the peacekeeping mission in the ... -
Zimbabwe: The darkest hour is not before dawn – By Joost Fontein
Throughout the 2000s, Zimbabwe’s decade of misery, I was often struck by a cliché that frequently appeared in editorials, commentaries, and letters published in ...
