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  • Book LaunchBooks and ControversiesCOVID-19Debating 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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    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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    Writing Piracy in Somalia: Who Controls the Narrative and How?

    By Awet T. Weldemichael
    August 19, 2022
    Knowledge gate-keeping, who controls the narrative?
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    Women’s Self Identification and the Construction of Sexualities in Ghana: A Debate

    By Serena Owusua Dankwa
    October 27, 2021
    Triple book review sexualities debate from the Africa: journal of the International African Institute
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    A Tale of Two Gandhis: Make Black History of India Matter

    By Shobana Shankar
    September 1, 2021
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    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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    Podcast: The Making of Africa’s Economic Transformation

    By Uncategorised
    May 24, 2021
    Audio webinar of Know the Beginning Well book launch
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  • Book LaunchBooks and ControversiesDebating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPolitics and Political EconomyTexts and Contexts

    Development Partnerships or Transactional Politics? An Insight into the Continent’s Struggle for Economic Transformation

    By Alex de Waal
    May 12, 2021
    Book Review: Know the Beginning Well
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  • Book LaunchBooks and ControversiesDebating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPolitics and Political EconomyTexts and Contexts

    “Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose”: Review of K.Y. Amoako’s Know the Beginning Well

    By Shantayanan Devarajan
    May 11, 2021
    Book Review Debate: Know the Beginning Well
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  • African VoicesBook LaunchBooks and ControversiesDebating IdeasEconomies and SocietiesPolitics and Political EconomyTexts and Contexts

    Putting Economic Policies into Practice: the K.Y. Guide

    By Nick Westcott
    May 10, 2021
    Book Review Debate: Know the Beginning Well
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