African Arguments
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The Diaspora can help fuel Rwanda’s Technology and Digital Ambitions – By Sean Obedih
As Rwanda day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the Rwandan ... -
The (LRA) conflict: Beyond the LRA lobby & the hunt for Kony… and towards civilian protection – By Kristof Titeca
On the 28th of February this year, an unfortunate incident happened in Garamba National Park, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)-affected area in North-Eastern Congo. ... -
The curious case of Africa’s Progress and the missing Millennium Development Goals – By Susana Edjang
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that have driven the global development agenda, since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, ... -
Confucius and the Curate’s Egg: The Morality of China in Africa – a review by Keith Somerville
It is oddly appropriate that in reviewing a book that expends many pages in slightly obscure, not always enlightening and often whimsical accounts of ... -
Bob Diamond, Uhuru Kenyatta and the rise of Afro-confidence: WEF 2013, Cape Town – By Richard Dowden
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting (the Davos of Africa) in Cape Town last week. It was the biggest so far – ... -
Democratization and the Failure of the Sudan Peace Process – By John Young
Alex has summarized my book quite well, but with one major exception: the central theme is the failure of the peace process to oversee ... -
Mali: Which way forward? A chat with Bruce Hall, Baz Lecocq, Gregory Mann and Bruce Whitehouse
A little over a year ago, a few friends met to hang out online and talk about the political crisis in Mali (the text ... -
The rise and rise of the African factivists – By Bright Simons and Jamie Drummond
Bono’s much-tweeted TED talk spotlighted Ghana, a West African country usually regarded as one of the continent’s better managed and more successful “˜lions’. Ghana’s ... -
Can Britain fix Somalia? – By Abdihakim Aynte
Last week, Somalia’s donors and international partners came together in London to lay down the foundations of post-transitional government in the country. The London ... -
African oil & gas outlook 2013 (part II): analysis by region – Rolake Akinkugbe at Ecobank
Nigeria and Angola SSA is set to produce approximately 5.9 million barrels (bpd) of crude oil in 2013 dominated by Nigeria and Angola compared ...
