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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.

African Arguments Book Series Debating Ideas Sudan

Why the Latest Attempt at Peacemaking in Sudan Won’t Work

By Justin Lynch
June 13, 2022

The future of peace building in the region

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Economies and Societies Texts and Contexts

In Praise of African Technocrats

By Stefan Dercon
June 6, 2022

Bargaining for progress? How elites can affect change towards development in Africa

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Digital Solutions Economies and Societies

African Creator Economy: A Socioeconomic Renaissance of the Continent?

By Ciugu Mwotia
June 2, 2022

The evolution of Africa's work models and their implication for sustained growth

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DI/JPAL Social Policy

Prepaid versus Postpaid Electricity: Provision, Access, and Efficiency

By Arnaud Dakpogan and Jack Ellington
May 19, 2022

The politics of energy provision, access, and efficiency in SSA

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Debating Ideas DI/JPAL

Want to Get Girls to School in Sub-Saharan Africa? Tackle Poverty

By Alessia Mortara, Primrose Adjepong and Onyinye Oguntoye
April 28, 2022

How poverty impacts girls' access to education in SSA

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Debating Ideas DI/JPAL Digital Solutions

Overcoming Under-Subscription of Welfare Programs: Digital Solutions to Low Take-Up

By Aimee Hare
March 31, 2022

The problems of digitising welfare in SSA

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Debating Ideas DI/JPAL Social Policy

Challenges of Fingerprinting: Will Digital IDs Revolutionise Service Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa?

By Aimee Hare
March 17, 2022

Can the challenges of data access on service delivery be resolved through new technology?

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Debating Ideas Migration/Refugee

Post-Pandemic Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Five Ways to Improve the Partnership on Migration and Mobility

By Mehari Taddele Maru and Andrew Geddes
March 9, 2022

Can there be a more feasible North-South migration policy?

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Debating Ideas IAI Africa Journal

An African Traveler in 17th Century Europe and the Question of “White Europe”

By Matteo Salvadore
March 3, 2022

The narrative of Zaga Christ (Ṣägga Krәstos): the first published African autobiography (1635)

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Debating Ideas DI/JPAL Digital Solutions Social Policy

Leakages

By Nidhi Parekh and Thokozile Malaza
March 3, 2022

Can technology help minimize waste and corruption?

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