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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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    Love (from Afar) in the Time of Covid-19: Diaspora Humanitarianism and Pandemic Response

    By Bashair Ahmed Paul Asquith
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    Humour Ignores Social Distancing: Postcolonial Irony and Covid-19 in Africa

    By David Mwambari Laura S. Martin
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    Will Covid-19 South Africa be Another Case of ‘Death Without Weeping’?

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    Local Ownership of Peace Processes in African Countries in Times of Covid-19

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    May 15, 2020
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    The Dangers of Covid-20: South Sudan’s Political Dilemma

    By Joshua Craze Naomi Pendle
    May 14, 2020
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    Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa

    By Nidhi Parekh
    May 13, 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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