African Arguments
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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 ... -
The African Union – compromised from all sides
What is going on with the African Union? Is its drifting away from the bold values declared in its Constitutive Act, meant to signal ... -
Which Way South Sudan? Cultural Diversity and the Fundamentals of Nation-Building
With the successful conduct of the referendum in January 2011, and the overwhelming vote in favor of separation, South Sudan edged a further step ... -
Southern Libya’s Vortex and the Threat to Africa
One reason why Africans worry about Libya is that they see the possibility of a protracted civil war with multiple power centres, which destabilizes ... -
Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan’s post liberation instability
Is East Africa slowly democratizing, or about to turn back the clock and slide into political violence again? -
North Africa Political Change – An RAS Guide
Tunisia and the ousting of Ben Ali came first – beginning in December 2010 and reaching a high-point when the President stepped down in ... -
Homosexuality and the battle for Africa’s soul
By Mark Gevisser* – 07/03/2011 This piece was first published in the Mail and Guardian in June 2010 “These boys committed a crime against ... -
Somalia: failure of international community not yet acknowledged
Throughout the last week of February, several important military operations took place in Somalia - Mogadishu, Hiiraan and Gedo - against al-Shabaab. Militia supported ...
