Debating Ideas
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Ghana’s Northern Sovereignty Gap: JNIM and the Burkinabe Border
In May 2024, Ghana’s former Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Boniface Gambila, offered a candid description of what happens along Ghana’s 602-kilometer border with its ... -
Nigeria designed the cure for its electricity crisis. It stopped administering it halfway.
Ask anyone who has lived in Nigeria what NEPA stands for, and they will tell you it stands for Never Expect Power Always. The ... -
Ghana’s Reparations Moment Is the New Face of Pan-African Liberation
In Accra this June, the reparations debate moved from remembrance towards political architecture. Over three days, Ghana hosted the High-Level Consultative Conference on the ... -
They Were Not Asking Us To Leave. They Were Telling Us.
At 1:12 AM, the morning of June 30, my sister sent a message to our family group chat: ‘Lock your doors and bedrooms as ... -
Why Global Health Research Needs More African Leadership
Adesina and colleagues through their published article titled, ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic response and the new era of austerity in Africa’ discussed how the economic ... -
Intra-African diplomatic relations should not dictate the external foreign policies of African states
Relatives will always have fights. These come and go, but once an outsider gets involved, this may threaten to collapse the household for good. ... -
Ports are not just infrastructure: what Tema reveals about development in Africa
Across Africa, large-scale infrastructure projects are transforming economies at an unprecedented pace. Between 2010 and 2022, African ports captured an outsized share of global ... -
Will Abiy Ahmed be Ethiopia’s Bismarck or its Mandela?
Africa has long served as fertile ground for distinctive forms of leadership to emerge. Figures such as Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, and ... -
Bringing Guns and Tanks to a Knife Fight
If you want to understand how protest cycles evolve, look not at the crowds but at the empty streets. On June 25, 2026, Nairobi’s ... -
African States Shouldn’t Help the US Endanger Refugees
Disembarking at an airport in Cameroon a few weeks ago, two Cameroonian women shook with fear. They had fled their country over a year ...
