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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.

Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas South Sudan

Top-down Approaches versus Community-driven Collective Action to Managing Covid-19 in South Sudan

By Joseph Diing
September 8, 2021

Managing Covid-19 in South Sudan

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Debating Ideas Ethiopia Politics Top story

Tigray dispatch: “How do you expect to stop war crimes with a request?”

By Mulugeta Gebrehiwot
September 1, 2021

From Tigray, where the government is trying to choke us to starvation, the international system’s dysfunction is clear. I was lucky to get a ...

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African Arguments Book Series Books and Controversies Debating Ideas Decolonisation South-South

A Tale of Two Gandhis: Make Black History of India Matter

By Shobana Shankar
September 1, 2021

Africa, India and the Spectre of Race - African Arguments book series

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Aid Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Kenya

Infodemic: Resistance, Perceptions and Trust in Adherence to Government Covid-19 Containment Measures in Kenya

By Erick Otieno Nyambedha
August 26, 2021

Mismanagement of Covid information campaign and response in Kenya

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Books and Controversies Debating Ideas South Africa

How Class Colours Race – South Africa’s White Workers in Global Context

By Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
August 18, 2021

Book Review: Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa's Long Transition to Majority Rule

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Debating Ideas Red Sea Sudan

Winners and Losers of Red Sea Politics in Sudan

By Jihad Mashamoun
August 6, 2021

Red Sea politics in Sudan

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Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Senegal

Senegal: Vaccine Access and Covid-19

By Donna A. Patterson
August 3, 2021

Pharmaceutical market and vaccine apartheid

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Debating Ideas Economies and Societies Nigeria

Resolving Nigeria’s Population-Productivity-Insecurity Problem

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
July 30, 2021

Nigeria's demographic-security nexus

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Debating Ideas Financialization Sudan

السودان وصندوق النقد الدولي: ما وراء مظاهر العقيدة الاقتصادية

By Harry Cross
July 23, 2021

ما وراء مبادره اعفاء الديون

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Sudan

حـــراس المتـاريـس: في تقلص الحلم وارتباكات المقاومة

By Ashraf Alhassan
July 21, 2021

سياسات لجان المقاومة السودانية

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