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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

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‘African Voices, African Arguments’: Episode 3: Race and Liberation in South Sudan and the U.S: A Discussion with Jok Madut Jok

By African Arguments
August 7, 2020

African Voices, African Arguments Podcast, Episode 3: Race and Liberation in South Sudan and the U.S: A Discussion with Jok Madut Jok

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Africa in the Time of Coronavirus – Senegal: The Role of International NGOs and the State (Republished)

By African Arguments
August 3, 2020

Africa in the Time of Coronavirus: The Role of International NGOs and the State; case study Senegal

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Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
July 31, 2020

Funeral Practices and Cultural Dignity in the Time of Covid

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Why the Kenya-Tanzania Border Row Undermines Prospective African Free Trade

By Peter Kirui
July 24, 2020

Why the Kenya-Tanzania Border Row Undermines Prospective African Free Trade

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African Voices, African Arguments Podcast: Episode Two; Interview with Alcinda Honwana

By African Arguments
July 14, 2020

Alex de Waal interviews Professor Alcinda Honwana, Centennial Professor and the Strategic Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa

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Israel in Africa: Transactional Politics and Medium-sized States

By Yotam Gidron
July 10, 2020

srael in Africa: Further Reflections on Transactional Politics and Medium Sized States

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Trapped by Covid and a Hostile Europe: Sudanese Migrants and Refugees* in Belgium

By Susanne Jaspars Dalal Rajab
July 8, 2020

Trapped by Covid and a Hostile Europe: Sudanese Migrants and Refugees in Belgium

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Corporate Weaponization of Social Media Platforms Threatens Democracy

By Rachel Zimmerman
July 6, 2020

Democracies are vulnerable to social media misinformation.

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Book Review: Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics

By Michael Woldemariam
July 2, 2020

The second review in a four part debate series of Yotam Gidron's Israeli in Africa book

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The Paradox of Ethiopian Women: Increased Suffering, Higher National Profile, Muted Voices

By Mulugeta Gebrehiwot
July 1, 2020

Does electing women make any difference to women’s rights? Ethiopia as a cast study.

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