African Arguments
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“˜There Was a Country’: a review of Chinua Achebe’s Biafran memoir – By Ike Anya
In our house in Nsukka, the small university town in eastern Nigeria where I grew up, my parents’ bedroom harboured a cupboard, reached only ... -
After Kismayo: what next for Al-Shabaab and Somalia? – By Seifulaziz Milas
After a long wait, the Kenya Army finally entered the southern Somali port of Kismayo on 28 September, following an attack by sea, air ... -
Radio propaganda, hate broadcasting and Africa: from Rwandan genocide to Kenyan post election violence – By Keith Somerville
Radio Propaganda and the Broadcasting of Hatred: Historical Development and Definitions is a new book by Keith Somerville, a regular writer for African Arguments. ... -
Radio Propaganda and the Broadcasting of Hatred: breaking new ground on hate radio during 2007 Kenya election – By Martin Plaut
No-one who has worked for the BBC World Service, as Keith Somerville and I have, will need to be reminded of the power of ... -
Babatunde Fashola: the Mayor Bloomberg of Lagos State – By Magnus Taylor
Babatunde Fashola is the 13th Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, and one of a number of Nigerian politicians and political technocrats who currently enjoy ... -
Sudan: Reviewing the Addis Ababa peace agreements 2012 (part I) – By Aly Verjee
The maxim that the test of any agreement is in its implementation is familiar to those who follow Sudanese politics, even from a distance. ... -
Post-Marikana South Africa: country not as old, boring and uncertain as business might believe – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica
By their nature, risk analysts can overly-attune their eyes to perceptions of risk. This may, however, be at the expense of opportunities that exist ... -
Sudan and South Sudan: a civilised divorce – By Ahmed Badawi
Divorce with kids involved is often a painful affair. But once the recriminations have been cast and the tears have dried, the two protagonists, ... -
Ethiopia: Nile waters diplomacy and the Renaissance dam – By Seifulaziz Milas
Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, built on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian border with Sudan, is all about producing electricity. And electricity is a key ... -
Is Africa’s digital revolution under threat? – Dele Fatunla
Back in the 1990s, before everyone had two mobile phones and Skype was still a distant dream, if you were an African living elsewhere, ...
