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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.

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    The Dangers of Covid-20: South Sudan’s Political Dilemma

    By Joshua Craze Naomi Pendle
    May 14, 2020
    Covid-19 presents opportunities to authoritarian governments throughout Africa to extend their control of society. The same is true in South Sudan
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    Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa

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    May 11, 2020
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    Global Health Expertise in the Time of Coronavirus

    By Charles Ebikeme
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    The false dichotomy in global health expertise is nothing new but this pandemic is putting it in a spotlight making it impossible to ignore
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    Leveraging the African Union’s Role in the Time of Covid-19

    By Maryanne Iwara
    April 29, 2020
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Debating Ideas is a new section run separately from the main African Arguments site. It 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.

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