African Arguments
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Sham or not, election flaws unlikely to unseat Mugabe – By Brian Raftopoulos
The recent elections in Zimbabwe were always likely to be problematic. Despite the hope of former South African president Thabo Mbeki in 2007 that ... -
Equatorial Guinea emerges as macroeconomic success story, but data deceptive – From Cross Border Information
This is a View article from the African Energy newsletter, a source of independent analysis on the continent’s energy industries produced by Cross-border Information, ... -
Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa – By Alcinda Honwana
International African Institute (IAI) – Lugard Lecture 2013 Alcinda Honwana’s African Arguments book Youth and Revolution in Tunisia is available from Zed Books. This ... -
MDC must ditch its romantic face and seek power above all else – By Simukai Tinhu
So, Zimbabwe’s hotly contested elections have come and gone and the country’s patriarch, Robert Mugabe, has been declared the winner. His party, ZANU-PF, also ... -
Robert Mugabe: the Great Survivor wins again – By Richard Dowden
I knew from the moment that President Robert Mugabe said he would step down from the presidency of Zimbabwe if he lost the election ... -
Top Trends to Watch in sub-Saharan Africa’s Extractives Sector (part I) – By Rolake Akinkugbe
From the West Africa Transform Margin (WATM) and the Mount Nimba iron-ore deposits straddling Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia to East Africa “˜s gas-rich Rovuma ... -
Naming and Shaming: Latest UN Report on Somalia singles out Central Bank Governor as corruption kingpin – By Hassan M. Abukar
The French were right. As their adage goes, “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme change,” (The more things change, the more they stay ... -
Will Guinea be Africa’s Next Narco State? Lebanese business, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda also involved – By Michael J.M. Keating
This is one of the questions posed by David E. Brown, a career American diplomat, in his report “The Challenge of Drug Trafficking To ... -
Zimbabwe’s elections 2013: more confusion, more uncertainty – By Ian Scoones
Zimbabwe’s trauma continues. The Zimbabwe Election Commission has announced a landslide victory for ZANU-PF. ZANU-PF reportedly took two-thirds of the parliamentary seats and President ... -
From liberation to liability – the record of National Liberation Movements in Southern Africa – By Keith Somerville
Review of Roger Southall, Liberation Movements in power: Party and State in Southern Africa, Woodbridge: James Curry and University of KazZulu-Natal press, 2013, pp.384, ...
