Politics
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Congo: UK and US must play more consistent hand to end world’s worst war – By Richard Dowden
Africa is covered in epithets, like graffiti. It has been labelled dark, lost, hopeless. But generalisations about Africa are dangerous. The only certainty is ... -
The Last Hunger Season: a fine but flawed study of poverty in rural Kenya – Review by Magnus Taylor
Reporting Africa is too often a game of big politics: elections, coups, terrorists, oil deals and Julius Malema. You can easily be an ... -
Emerging or diverging? A framework for discussing “˜Africa rising’ – by Jolyon Ford
I wonder if we should perhaps think of sub-Saharan Africa as a collection not so much of jointly emerging markets, but of diverging ones. ... -
African youth: Fulfilling the potential – Jay Naidoo
Africa has two major leadership problems: firstly, its leadership is fragmented. And secondly, its leaders are stagnating. We need a bold new vision that ... -
Africa’s glass is both half full and half empty – By Simon Freemantle
Acknowledgment of Africa’s ongoing economic revival is becoming more widespread. Hardly a week passes without a notable report or conference extolling the continent’s growth ... -
Goma falls to the M23: a tale of war, rebellion and dreadful peace agreements – By Kris Berwouts
On Thursday November 15th “˜M23′ – the rebellion movement which was created earlier this year – launched a major attack on the city of ... -
How Shabaab is losing the battle, but maybe winning the war – By Abdi Aynte
The Somali militant group al-Shabaab is currently losing ferocious battles against Kenyan troops in Southern Somalia – part of an African Union peacekeeping mission. ... -
The Fall of Goma – By Michael Deibert
When the provincial capital of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fell to rebel forces yesterday, the rapidity of the rebel advance ... -
Poor Numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it – By Morten Jerven
On November 5, 2010, Ghana Statistical Services announced that it was revising its GDP estimates upwards by over 60 percent, suggesting that that in ... -
Class and rural differentiation after land reform in Zimbabwe and Two New Land Reform books– by Ian Scoones
A new paper in the Journal of Agrarian Change by the team that wrote the Zimbabwe’s Land Reform book examines the processes of rural ...
