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Debating Ideas

Debating Ideas is a new section that 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.

Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Podcasts

Podcast: From Below, New Youth Politics in Africa

By Alcinda Honwana
June 23, 2021

Age of Agitation Series: From Below, Youth Politics in Africa Podcast (Oxford Lecture)

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Chad Debating Ideas Sahel

Precariousness of Transition in Chad

By Donna A. Patterson
June 17, 2021

American Foreign Policy in the Sahel and the Prospects of Transition in Chad

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas South Africa

Fallism’s Faultlines: The Paradoxes of “Fees Must Fall”

By Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
June 16, 2021

Age of Agitation Series: Paradoxes of the Fees Must Fall Movement in South Africa

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone at 60: Coming of Age in Freetown’s Streets

By Luisa Enria
June 9, 2021

Age of Agitation Series: Youth in Waithood in Sierra Leone

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Debating Ideas Environmentalism Ethiopia GERD Regionalism Sudan Texts and Contexts

Dams and the Technology-Development Nexus: The Case of the GERD

By Gussai Sheikheldin
June 4, 2021

GERD Series: Technology and Development Nexus

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Eritrea

Thirty Years after Eritrean Independence: Youth Activist Vanessa Tsehaye Talks to Georgia Cole

By Georgia Cole
June 3, 2021

Age of Agitation Series: Eritrean Diaspora Activism

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Burkina Faso Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Public Health

The Fetishisation of Covid-19 Data: Reflections on the Daily Data Announcements in Burkina Faso

By Lea Paré Toé & Helle Samuelsen
June 1, 2021

The politics of Covid-19 metrics

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Zimbabwe

Violence and Generational Trauma: Gukurahundi Memory Today

By Duduzile Ndlovu
May 26, 2021

Age of Agitation Series: Gukurahundi Memory Today

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Book Launch Books and Controversies Debating Ideas Texts and Contexts

Podcast: The Making of Africa’s Economic Transformation

By African Arguments
May 24, 2021

Audio webinar of Know the Beginning Well book launch

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas

“Our Liberation is a Matter of Now”: An Interview with Bobi Wine

By Luke Melchiorre
May 19, 2021

Age of Agitation Series: Interview with Bobi Wine

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