African Arguments
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Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong
About the Author Morten Jerven teaches at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of ... -
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill: looking beyond a single explanation – By Kristof Titeca
Last Friday, a wealthier primary school in the suburbs of Kampala had a special occasion during their Friday Assembly (in which students hold performances): ... -
How did the DRC become the ICC’s Pandora’s Box? – By Thijs B. Bouwknegt
This Friday, Germain Katanga has the ambiguous honour of receiving the third ever judgement from the International Criminal Court (ICC). It comes a decade ... -
Back to the Middle Ages? Response to Thabo Mbeki and Mahmood Mamdani’s op-ed: “Court’s Can’t End Civil Wars” – Anonymous
True, courts can’t end civil wars, but international criminal courts were created to make sure that certain forms of extreme violence are outlawed and ... -
Is Yoweri Museveni still the West’s Man in Africa? – By Angelo Izama
Heavily armed members of Uganda’s elite anti-terrorism police stand guard along the neatly manicured perimeter of the US Embassy in Kampala. Occasionally they shout ... -
Gay Africa: casualty of a different power struggle – By Richard Dowden
Uganda’s war over homosexuality threatens to spread to other African countries and has further damaged the increasingly strained relationship between Africa and Western donors. ... -
Have Morten Jerven and Pali Lehohla made up over “˜Poor Numbers’? – By Magnus Taylor
Last year African Arguments broke a story that the economist Morten Jerven was being prevented from speaking at the United Nations Economic Commission for ... -
Is Morgan Tsvangirai going to be deposed as MDC leader? – By Simukai Tinhu
Following defeat in the July 2013 elections, Roy Bennett, the treasurer general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), made a direct call for ... -
Somalia’s Parallel Armies – By Liban Ahmad
We have read recently that Somalia has a National Army, but is that really the case? Upon closer scrutiny one realises that Somalia has ... -
Choosing to be a Dinka: selecting ethnicity remains an elite privilege
“Yin acÉ”l?” means “˜What is your name?’ in Dinka. They say that in Juba in December 2013 people were asked this question. If you ...
