African Arguments
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Making Sense of the Protests in Khartoum – By Alex de Waal
This essay was originally posted on African Futures, a digital forum of the Social Science Research Council. In the ten days following September 23, ... -
Citadels of learning, Boko Haram’s new slaughter fields – By Alkasim Abdulkadir
The insurgency in Nigeria’s North Eastern corner has once more brought into sharp relief the precarious balance between life and death in the region. ... -
Mo Ibrahim Prize 2013: and the winner is…Afro-realism – By Magnus Taylor
African economies are generally growing – we know that and it can be well-documented through trusted economic data. But is African governance also rising? ... -
Converting resource wealth to economic development: what role for “˜local content’? – By Peter Dí¶rrie
Few topics were debated as intensively at the recent International Economic Forum on Africa in Paris as the question of local content in the ... -
Can Radios Stop the Lord’s Resistance Army in Congo? – By Scott Ross
In northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rural radio stations are used to protect civilians from violence. Part of a growing network of high ... -
Making the most of Africa’s culture and creativity: economic development, democracy and peacebuilding – By Ned Dalby
In Cape Town this week, a conference on Africa’s creative economy bangs the drum for art, culture and the creative industries. Policymakers looking for ... -
Worsening Violence in Northern Nigeria reveals echoes of Algeria and AQIM – By Jonathan Hill
Boko Haram’s recent, deadly attack on the agricultural college in Gujba, Yobe State has raised some difficult and urgent questions for the Nigerian federal ... -
Media reform consultation with Somali journalists from the UK diaspora now underway
A new consultation on media reform in Somalia is taking place throughout October among Somali journalists and media actors in the UK. The project, ... -
Debating Rwanda under the RPF: gap between “˜believers’ and “˜unbelievers’ remains wide – By Magnus Taylor
On Friday and Saturday I spent a strange couple of days attending a conference at SOAS (partially sponsored by the RAS). It was called ... -
Still no proof Mugabe rigged elections, according to new Solidarity Peace Trust report — by Peta Thornycroft
Zanu PF’s landslide election “˜victory’ was probably at least partly the result of five years hard campaigning for new voters, as there is still ...
