African Arguments
-
Libya and Cote d’Ivoire’s Yo-Yo foreign policy: The return of the French policeman
By Prof Richard Banegas During the Franco-African summit in Nice in 2010, president Sarkozy affirmed that there would be no more French military interventions ... -
South Africa: following the North African path?
By Hein Willemse In the weeks following the uprisings that brought about regime change in Tunisia and Egypt several local social commentators predicted that ... -
Gadaffi and the AU: Brotherly despots or estranged lovers?
By Jason Pack 20/04/2011 The African Union’s half-hearted attempt to mediate between the two sides of the Libya conflict does not mean they have ... -
Libya and Cote d’Ivoire: A New Interventionism?
Bonapartism in built-up shoes So the “˜cheese-eating surrender monkeys’ have suddenly gone on the war path. The French (and British) have been attacked in ... -
Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF must be held to promises
The announcement in December 2010 by President Robert Mugabe that his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), would leave the ... -
Presidential Elections in Chad
Small steps forward In many ways, Chad has come a long way since the last presidential election held in 2006. Back then, President Deby’s ... -
Beyond the Beijing Consensus: The everyday politics of China in Africa
Much of the concern with China in Africa focuses on the elite negotiations and large projects that are the most visible. Worried commentators in ... -
Nigeria election blog II – Dowden in Africa
I am woken by a frantic voice blaring from a coarse loudspeaker, demanding, pleading, insisting. The voice rises to a hysterical shriek, then breaks ... -
The African Renaissance and the long Arab spring
The Egyptian "youth revolution" has been compared to innumerable historical instances ranging from France's 1789, to Russia's 1991, Berlin's 1989, via Iran's 1979 and ... -
Cote d’Ivoire and Ouattarra
The man Ivorian Presidents love to hate By Daniel Balint-Kurti Ivory Coast, the one-time poster boy of West Africa, has seen its long-drawn-out crisis ...
