Debating Ideas
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God Forbid a Pan-Africa: Pan-Africanism’s Non-Works
God forbid a Pan-Africa. Pan-Africanism is the belief that all Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora, are united in solidarity and ... -
Somalia Pushes Ahead with Controversial Regional Elections Despite Opponent Boycott.
Somalia’s transition to one-person,one-vote elections is increasingly becoming a struggle not only over democratic reform,but also over who controls political power. The Federal government ... -
How Las Anod Changed Somaliland’s Case for Recognition
Somaliland has spent three decades asking the world to trust a specific story about itself: a peaceful, democratic state exercising real authority over the ... -
500,000 children are born with congenital heart disease in Africa. Where are the hospitals to treat them?
When Tendai Moyo’s daughter, Rudorwashe Grace, was born in a Zimbabwean hospital, she struggled to breathe, her lips turned blue, and feeding exhausted her. ... -
Population Density: A Missing Factor in Development — and Why This Is Africa’s Moment
Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders. Joe ... -
Sudan: The Unfortunate Alliance
On Foreign Interest, the Ideal Militia, and What a Coloniser Prays He Leaves Behind My grandmother never said displacement. She said: we left the ... -
Violence, Profit, and the Economy Sustaining Eastern Congo’s Endless War
At a checkpoint between Miba and the Kachanga hill in Fizi territory, soldiers of the Congolese army wave through bicycles loaded with mineral ore, ... -
Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army ... -
Africa’s Youth Employment Crisis Has a Curriculum Problem
When I worked for The Harvest Fund, I sat across from women-farmers who had just completed training in milling, business development, food safety. Competent ... -
The Coup Costs More Than the Corruption It Claims to Fix
Since 2020, soldiers have seized power in Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso (twice), Niger, and Gabon. In every case, the announcement has followed the ...
