Politics
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Five debut Nigerian novels to read in 2015 – By Ogo Okafor
Nigeria is an acknowledged giant in world literature. Whilst Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are the usual suspects that may come ... -
Bashir and South African Foreign Policy: Beyond Considerations of African Unity – By Christopher Williams
The diplomatic and legal crisis precipitated by Omar al-Bashir’s “escape” from Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria on June 15 has prompted a heated ... -
Burundi: protesters face increasing danger as parliamentary polls held – By Lorraine Nkengurutse
Burundi’s parliamentary elections took place on June 29th (despite efforts to delay them) and were boycotted by most opposition parties following claims of fraud, ... -
The rise and paradoxes of pan-Africanism today
Of the numerous concepts which have influenced Black Africa since the wave of independence in the 1960s, pan-Africanism is, after democracy, probably the most ... -
Family therapy: Dynasty and change in Uganda – By Angelo Izama
If it were not such serious business, Uganda’s present political drama would make a great plot (with cast included) for a TV drama series ... -
Three Lessons in Repression from Khartoum to Juba – By Katie Campo
Civil society activists in Khartoum suffered at the hands of Sudanese authorities for decades, but there was hope for South Sudanese activists after the ... -
Zimbabwe: why Kasukuwere cannot beat Mnangagwa to the post-Mugabe succession – By Simukai Tinhu
Saviour Kasukuwere has become something of a permanent fixture in President Mugabe’s government. The youthful minister, who has risen rapidly through the ranks, and ... -
Blessed rain and old faces: Pa’gan Amum’s return to the SPLM – By James Copnall in Juba
President Salva Kiir watched, motionless, as Pa’gan Amum was sworn in, and then the two men shook hands as the cameras flashed, before ululations ... -
Liberating African Economic History from the Tyranny of Econometrics – By Alex de Waal
Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong, London, Zed, 2015 There is a longstanding joke about Sudanese statistics: 87.7% of official figures are ... -
Understanding Musa Hilal and Mohamed Hamdan “Hametti” in Sudanese politics – By Hamdan Goumaa
The current regime in Sudan under the National Congress Party (NCP) has managed to survive, in part, by manipulating ethnic and other interest groups ...
