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Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name. It is additionally sponsored by the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, Boston.

Editor: Raga Makawi
Managing Editor: Stephanie Kitchen
Book Series Editors (advisory): Adam Branch, Alex de Waal, Alcinda Honwana, Ebenezer Obadare, Carlos Oya and Nick Westcott.

Activism Debating Ideas Queer Sexualities social movements Specialised Series

On blackqueer Fugitivity beyond the Nation-State

By E.N Mirembe
November 30, 2022

African feminisms series: blackqueer as fugitive

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Africa's Foreign Engagements Aid Debating Ideas South-South

Indian Exceptionalism and Normative Power in Africa

By Meera Venkatachalam and Dan Banik
November 24, 2022

India in Africa part two; exceptionalism and normative power

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Book review Society

Is it time to abandon decolonisation?

By Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh
November 17, 2022

Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book. Does decolonisation, ...

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Activism Debating Ideas Feminism Morocco social movements Specialised Series

Moroccan Feminists: Generational Gaps in Feminist Movements

By Lamyaa Achary
November 15, 2022

African feminisms: generational gaps among Moroccan feminists

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Africa's Foreign Engagements Aid Debating Ideas South-South

India in Africa: The Changing Face of South-South Cooperation

By Meera Venkatachalam and Dan Banik
November 8, 2022

How is South-South cooperation changing?

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Activism Debating Ideas Feminism Queer social movements

Feminizing the State Apparatus: A Mirage for Women’s Liberation

By Jackline Kemigisa
November 1, 2022

Feminism and state politics in Africa

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Activism Debating Ideas Feminism Queer social movements

Beyond Pacification: African Feminisms – A Constant Awakening

By Rosebell Kagumire
October 18, 2022

African Feminisms: A Constant Awakening

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Debating Ideas Ethiopia War and War Crimes

Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia: Civil War, Drought and Internal Displacement

By Jin-ho Chung
September 23, 2022

Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia: Civil War, Drought and Internal Displacement

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Books and Controversies Debating Ideas Response Piece Somalia

Writing Piracy in Somalia: Who Controls the Narrative and How?

By Awet T. Weldemichael
August 19, 2022

Knowledge gate-keeping, who controls the narrative?

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Book review Economy

How useful is aid to Africa?

By Nick Westcott
August 19, 2022

Mills’ latest book calls for donors to focus on democracies, but electoral systems can be as susceptible to corruption as autocracies. Since 1960, Africa ...

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