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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 Economies and Societies Sudan

Taking Industrial Policy Seriously in Sudan

By Gussai Sheikheldin and Muzan Alneel
October 20, 2021

Industrial policy for development in post-revolution Sudan

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Debating Ideas IAI Africa Journal Response Piece Sexualities

The Multiplicity of Queer World-Making

By Adriaan van Klinken
October 14, 2021

Sexualities Series: author's response to book reviews of 'Kenyan, Christian, Queer'.

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Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas South Africa

Experiencing Covid-19 after Apartheid

By Amber Reed and Ziyanda Xaso
October 6, 2021

Covid containment measures trigger trauma memories in Apartheid survivors

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Debating Ideas Ethiopia War and War Crimes

The Rise and Rise of Fascism in Ethiopia

By Leah Abraham
September 24, 2021

Fascism in Ethiopia

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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas South Africa

Restless Youth, Restless Country

By Michael Braun
September 22, 2021

EFF: A Political Party for the South African Youth?

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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

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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