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Debating Ideas

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Debating Ideas 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.

  • ActivismDebating IdeasFeminismQueersocial movements

    Feminizing the State Apparatus: A Mirage for Women’s Liberation

    By Jackline Kemigisa
    November 1, 2022
    Feminism and state politics in Africa
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  • ActivismDebating IdeasFeminismQueersocial movements

    Beyond Pacification: African Feminisms – A Constant Awakening

    By Rosebell Kagumire
    October 18, 2022
    African Feminisms: A Constant Awakening
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  • Debating IdeasEthiopiaWar and War Crimes

    Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia: Civil War, Drought and Internal Displacement

    By Jin-ho Chung
    September 23, 2022
    Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia: Civil War, Drought and Internal Displacement
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  • Books and ControversiesDebating IdeasResponse PieceSomalia

    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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  • Despite billions in aid over decades, the rise in living standards in Africa has been meagre. Some presidents, like Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana (pictured), are calling for countries to move "beyond aid". Credit: Paul Kagame.
    Book reviewEconomy

    How useful is aid to Africa?

    By Nick Westcott
    August 19, 2022
    Mills’ latest book calls for donors to focus on democracies, but electoral systems can be as susceptible to corruption as autocracies. Since 1960, Africa ...
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  • Debating IdeasEnvironmentalismGhana

    Agbogbloshie: A Year after the Violent Demolition

    By Grace Akese, Uli Beisel and Muntaka Chasant
    July 21, 2022
    “The government thinks this is rubbish”: Agbogbloshie, a year after the violent demolition
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  • President João Lourenço of Angola at the AU summit in 2018. Credit: Paul Kagame.
    AngolaBook reviewPoliticsTop story

    How power in Angola is wielded by one man

    By Cláudio Silva
    July 4, 2022
    Roque’s new book shows how the regime came to be ruled by, and came to rule through, fear and paranoia – still does so ...
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  • African Arguments Book SeriesDebating IdeasSudan

    Why the Latest Attempt at Peacemaking in Sudan Won’t Work

    By Justin Lynch
    June 13, 2022
    The future of peace building in the region
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  • Economies and SocietiesTexts and Contexts

    In Praise of African Technocrats

    By Stefan Dercon
    June 6, 2022
    Bargaining for progress? How elites can affect change towards development in Africa
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  • Digital SolutionsEconomies and Societies

    African Creator Economy: A Socioeconomic Renaissance of the Continent?

    By Ciugu Mwotia
    June 2, 2022
    The evolution of Africa's work models and their implication for sustained growth
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