Debating Ideas
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Ethiopia Does Not Need a Golden Past – It Needs an Honest Future
Public argument in Ethiopia has a habit of reducing history to moral theatre. Individuals are cast as either saviours or destroyers; whole eras are ... -
From Tragedy to Resilience: Women Farmers in Ghana Turn to Agroecology to Confront Climate Change
In Ghana’s transitional ecological belt, where once-dense forests are steadily giving way to savannah, climate change is no longer a distant concern but an ... -
Nigeria’s Fiscal Origins and the Politics of Taxation Today
In his post-amalgamation report to the Colonial Office, Lord Lugard proclaimed triumphantly the “astonishing results” of the administrative merger of the Northern and Southern ... -
An Economy Without Permission
In cities like Marrakech, Dakar, and Dubai, art markets are curated as economic and cultural infrastructure. In Lagos, the Lekki Art Market offers the ... -
Ukraine Is Coming to Africa. But Did Anyone Ask Africa?
On 25 March 2026, a high-level interagency coordination meeting took place at Ukraine’s Presidential Office, chaired by Kyrylo Budanov. The subject was the expansion ... -
African Arguments Relaunching for 2026
Dear readers, In early 2025, the Royal African Society decided to undertake a comprehensive review of the African Arguments platform. A flagship digital publication and one of the most respected ... -
A Death in Bissau: Vigário Luís Balanta and the Risks of Civic Life in Guinea-Bissau
The body of Vigário Luís Balanta was found on March 31, 2026, in the Ndam area, about 30 kilometers from Bissau. Early reporting and ... -
Why African Borderlands Keep Burning
Dr Olivier Walther and Dr Steven Radil share findings from their ongoing research on African borderlands including a forthcoming article in Applied Geography. Africa’s margins ... -
Ghana’s Cocoa Crisis Is Not a Price Story: It Is a Governance Failure
In February 2026, Ghana did something it had not done in living memory. It cut the guaranteed farm-gate cocoa price by 28.6 percent in ... -
Controversial Chadian Law Risks Increased Rural Violence
A silent conflict between herders and farmers, competing for access to insufficient resources, has been plaguing Chad for decades. But the Chadian government’s recent ...
