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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.

Debating Ideas Kenya Social Policy

Preparing for Shocks through Universal Basic Income: Evidence from Kenya

By Nidhi Parekh
January 20, 2022

How a universal basic income helped people survive large unanticipated shocks such as the current Covid-19 pandemic.

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Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Decolonisation

WHO Decides Africa’s Health? Learning from the Covid-19 Disaster

By David Bell
January 14, 2022

The Corporate Colonization of Global Health

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Debating Ideas Sudan TINAC

“This Is Not a Coup”: Hamdok’s Resignation

By Debate Ideas
January 10, 2022

Why Hamdok's exit could be a new lifeline for the pro-democracy movement.

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Debating Ideas Sudan

After the Coup: Regional Strategies for Sudan

By Andrew Edward Yaw Tchie and Jihad Mashamoun
January 7, 2022

Implications for national and regional politics after the coup in Sudan

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Debating Ideas Long Read South-South

Death by Peace: How South Sudan’s Peace Agreement Ate the Grassroots

By Joshua Craze and Ferenc David Marko
January 6, 2022

The peace agreement largely destroyed whatever popular legitimacy the South Sudanese political system once had.

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Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas

Medical Colonialism: Pandemic Impacts and Vaccine Delivery

By Toby Green
December 17, 2021

Inequality, Healthcare and Vaccine Access in Africa

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Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas

Covid Numbers in African Countries

By Morten Jerven
December 9, 2021

Covid's Poor Numbers

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Debating Ideas Ethiopia War and War Crimes

Wax and Gold: The War for the Body and Spirit of Ethiopia

By Fisseha Fantahun Tefera
December 7, 2021

Navigating the multi-layered complexity of the war in Ethiopia

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Debating Ideas Sudan TINAC

“This Is Not a Coup”: Hamdok Must Resign

By Debate Ideas
December 3, 2021

Sudan's Coup Leader's Vie for Legitimacy

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Debating Ideas Ethiopia

Underinvestment, Corporate Greed and Lack of Oversight: The Scandal of Facebook’s Role in Ethiopia’s Conflict

By Sarah Howard
December 1, 2021

The Scandal of Facebook in Ethiopia's Conflict

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