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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.

Aid Conflict Debating Ideas Somaliland

The International Community Must Reconsider its Engagement with Somaliland

By Jamal Abdi
March 14, 2023

Is the international aid system driving conflict in Las Anod?

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Book Launch Books and Controversies COVID-19 Debating Ideas

The Covid Consensus, African Studies and Internationalism

By Stephanie Kitchen
March 9, 2023

The debate on Covid three years later

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Conflict Debating Ideas Economies and Societies Somaliland

Conflict in Las Anod and Crisis in Somaliland: External Investment, Intensifying Internal Competition, and the Struggle for Narrative

By Jethro Norman
March 3, 2023

External interventions and narrative in shaping the conflict in Las Anod

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Conflict Debating Ideas Regionalism Somalia

Conflict in Somaliland: Beyond the Clannism Convention

By Jamal Abdi
February 27, 2023

State capacity, regional politics and the current conflict in Laascaanood

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Book review Books and Controversies COVID-19 Debating Ideas

The Battle for Africa: Covid Consensus as History of the Present

By Ana Lucia Araujo
February 21, 2023

Weighing Covid-19 response policies in the longue duree

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Activism Book Launch Debating Ideas Sudan Texts and Contexts

(Un)Doing Resistance: Three Decades of the Islamic Regime’s Assault on the Arts in Sudan

By Omnia Shawkat
February 8, 2023

Memorising Sudan's Art and Culture after a Dictatorship

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Horn of Africa Somalia Somalia

Crisis in Lasanod: Border Disputes, Escalating Insecurity and the Future of Somaliland

By Markus Virgil Hoehne
February 6, 2023

Crisis in Lasanod: Escalating Insecurity and the Future of Somaliland

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Art and Culture Debating Ideas Feminism Long Read Pan Africanism Senegal Specialised Series

Blackness, Pan-African Consciousness and Women’s Political Organising through the Magazine AWA

By Rama Salla Dieng and Korka Sall
January 31, 2023

Pan-Africanism and black consciousness in women's organising in West Africa

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Activism Debating Ideas Feminism Queer Specialised Series

“Poking the Leopard’s Anus”: Legal Spectacle and Queer Feminist Politics

By Anselm Kizza-Besigye
January 17, 2023

Performative Tactics and Vulgar Rhetoric in Confrontation Sovereignty

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Debating Ideas Financialization Kenya Politics and Political Economy

The ‘Hustler’ Fund: Kenya’s Approach to National Transformation

By Jacinta Victoria Syombua Muinde
January 5, 2023

Kenya's Hustler Economy

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