African Arguments
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Population Density: A Missing Factor in Development — and Why This Is Africa’s Moment
Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders. Joe ... -
Sudan: The Unfortunate Alliance
On Foreign Interest, the Ideal Militia, and What a Coloniser Prays He Leaves Behind My grandmother never said displacement. She said: we left the ... -
Violence, Profit, and the Economy Sustaining Eastern Congo’s Endless War
At a checkpoint between Miba and the Kachanga hill in Fizi territory, soldiers of the Congolese army wave through bicycles loaded with mineral ore, ... -
Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army ... -
Africa’s Youth Employment Crisis Has a Curriculum Problem
When I worked for The Harvest Fund, I sat across from women-farmers who had just completed training in milling, business development, food safety. Competent ... -
The Coup Costs More Than the Corruption It Claims to Fix
Since 2020, soldiers have seized power in Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso (twice), Niger, and Gabon. In every case, the announcement has followed the ... -
Ethiopia Counts Coffee at the Wrong End
On July 7, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told Parliament that Ethiopia had earned a record $3.1 billion from coffee exports. Six days later, the ... -
Malawi’s economic crisis: Can recovery begin?
Almost nine months after Malawian President Peter Mutharika returned to power, his administration finds itself grappling with a severe and protracted economic crisis. The ... -
Tanzania’s VAT Refund Revolution: The Quiet Reform That Could Unlock Billions in Private Investment
When governments unveil annual budgets, headlines focus on the big numbers: spending, growth and tax collection. But sometimes the real story sits quietly in ... -
The Beijing of It All: Africa’s Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels
In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa’s development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this ...
