African Arguments
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When Mrs Thatcher met Mandela and Mo Ibrahim on Today – By Richard Dowden
I haven’t yet seen the film The Iron Lady, but it prompts me to recollect my two encounters with Mrs T. The first was ... -
Frantz Fanon’s Afterlife: On the 50th Anniversary of His Death – By Michael Keating
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was born in Martinique. He joined the Free French Army and fought in Europe during World War II. After the war ... -
DR Congo: The International Community Must Not Turn Their Backs On Democracy – By William Townsend, Free Fair DRC
Last week, the Supreme Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo upheld the result of what was by all accounts a deeply flawed election, ... -
Food Crisis in the Sahel – a region in need of long term solutions – By Celeste Hicks
Just two years after the Sahel faced a major food crisis, leaving an estimated seven million people in need of food aid in Niger ... -
BBC Analysis: DR Congo elections open new wounds – By Theodore Trefon
African Arguments writer Theodore Trefon has a new analysis piece on the BBC website: Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila’s victory in the ... -
Obama and Africa: an African second term? – By Richard Dowden
Despite his African heritage Barack Obama appears to have done little for his father’s continent in his first term as US president. He could ... -
African Election Map 2011 – 2012 – By Simon Freemantle, Standard Bank
Africa’s political plates are shifting. In concert with economic gains realised over the course of the past decade in particular, and the concomitant rise ... -
Northwest Africa kidnap claims by new groups suggest growing competition for ransoms – By Exclusive Analysis
In December 2011 two new groups claimed responsibility for kidnaps in northwest Africa. On 7 December, the Mauritanian ANI news agency said it had ... -
‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’ and the making of Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureate – By Robtel Neajai Pailey
In 2009 I screened the film Pray the Devil Back to Hell in Monrovia, Liberia, with a group of Liberian women “” young and ... -
African sovereign wealth funds prospects – by Jolyon Ford, Oxford Analytica.
For sub-Saharan governments one largely unmentioned reaction to the fall of Libya’s Colonel Qadhafi earlier this year was their surprise at the scale of ...
