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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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Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa

By Anne Abaho
May 27, 2020

Covid-19 and the New Scramble for Africa

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من على البعد: دروس مفيدة من تجارب العون في الصومال والسودان لأزمة كوفيد-19*

By Susanne Jaspars
May 26, 2020

Going Remote: Learning from Aid Practices in Somalia and Sudan for the Covid-19 Crisis

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Gifting and the Capable State in Times of Crisis

By Leslie Bank
May 25, 2020

State gifting and the politics of bailouts in the time of Covid

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

By Bashair Ahmed Paul Asquith
May 22, 2020

With close links to origin countries diasporas can mobilise quickly in a humanitarian crisis.

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Humour Ignores Social Distancing: Postcolonial Irony and Covid-19 in Africa

By David Mwambari Laura S. Martin
May 20, 2020

Africans are fighting and commenting on the Covid epidemic, as they did with long-established colonial narratives, through the medium of humour.

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Will Covid-19 South Africa be Another Case of ‘Death Without Weeping’?

By Vuyokazi Nelly Sharpley Leslie Bank
May 18, 2020

How do Covid-19 socialised responses to death and disease compare with previous pandemics?

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

By Tarila Marclint Ebiede
May 15, 2020

How will COVID-19 affect ongoing peace processes?

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The Dangers of Covid-20: South Sudan’s Political Dilemma

By Joshua Craze Naomi Pendle
May 14, 2020

Covid-19 presents opportunities to authoritarian governments throughout Africa to extend their control of society. The same is true in South Sudan

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Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies Across Africa

By Nidhi Parekh
May 13, 2020

Covid-19 Underscores the Need to Overhaul Social Policies across Africa

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Are African Governments Engaging Enough in Covid-19 Clinical Trial Participation?

By Lenias Hwenda
May 11, 2020

Only a limited number of African countries are currently participating in Covid-19 clinical trials

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