Debating Ideas
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Rethinking Black Theology and Black Consciousness in and from South Africa
Half a century separates African American Methodist minister James Cone’s influential works Black Theology & Black Power (1969) and A Black Theology of Liberation ... -
Gold and Mercenaries: The Price of the Massacre in Sudan
On October 26, 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia took the city of El Fasher after an 18-month siege. The capital of North ... -
Angola’s Overlooked Role in the Zambezi River System
The Zambezi is one of Africa’s great rivers. Its basin, covering approximately 1,370,000 km2, is home to approximately 50 million people and spreads across ... -
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From Non‑Intervention to Non‑Indifference: What the African Union Has Really Learned about Crisis Management
Two decades after replacing the OAU, the AU’s record is best measured not by communiqués but by how fast it converts rules into results ... -
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Academic Funding, Academic Publishing, and Academic Freedom: An African Conundrum
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When Digital Lending Feels Like Financial Colonialism
a mobile lending application in Kenya advances a 20-year-old woman named Khamba to stock up her fruit stall in Nakura. In another seven days, ... -
Crisis in eastern DRC: The Congolese government and M23 rebels in a standoff over migration
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebels, who control large swathes of Congolese territory, are locked in a new ...
