African Arguments

Top Menu

  • About Us
    • Our philosophy
  • Write for us
  • Contact us
  • Advertise
  • Newsletter
  • RSS feed
  • Donate
  • Fellowship

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Country
    • Central
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Chad
      • Congo-Brazzaville
      • Congo-Kinshasa
      • Equatorial Guinea
      • Gabon
    • East
      • Burundi
      • Comoros
      • Dijbouti
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Kenya
      • Rwanda
      • Seychelles
      • Somalia
      • Somaliland
      • South Sudan
      • Sudan
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
      • Red Sea
    • North
      • Algeria
      • Egypt
      • Libya
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
      • Western Sahara
    • Southern
      • Angola
      • Botswana
      • eSwatini
      • Lesotho
      • Madagascar
      • Malawi
      • Mauritius
      • Mozambique
      • Namibia
      • South Africa
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • West
      • Benin
      • Burkina Faso
      • Cape Verde
      • Côte d’Ivoire
      • The Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea Bissau
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
      • São Tomé and Príncipe
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
  • Politics
    • Elections Map
  • Economy
  • Society
    • Climate crisis
  • Culture
  • Specials
    • From the fellows
    • Radical Activism in Africa
    • On Food Security & COVID19
    • #EndSARS
    • Covid-19
    • Travelling While African
    • From the wit-hole countries…
    • Living in Translation
    • Red Sea
    • Beautiful Game
  • Podcast
    • Into Africa Podcast
    • Africa Science Focus Podcast
    • Think African Podcast
  • Debating Ideas
  • About Us
    • Our philosophy
  • Write for us
  • Contact us
  • Advertise
  • Newsletter
  • RSS feed
  • Donate
  • Fellowship

logo

African Arguments

  • Home
  • Country
    • Central
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Chad
      • Congo-Brazzaville
      • Congo-Kinshasa
      • Equatorial Guinea
      • Gabon
    • East
      • Burundi
      • Comoros
      • Dijbouti
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Kenya
      • Rwanda
      • Seychelles
      • Somalia
      • Somaliland
      • South Sudan
      • Sudan
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
      • Red Sea
    • North
      • Algeria
      • Egypt
      • Libya
      • Morocco
      • Tunisia
      • Western Sahara
    • Southern
      • Angola
      • Botswana
      • eSwatini
      • Lesotho
      • Madagascar
      • Malawi
      • Mauritius
      • Mozambique
      • Namibia
      • South Africa
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • West
      • Benin
      • Burkina Faso
      • Cape Verde
      • Côte d’Ivoire
      • The Gambia
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea Bissau
      • Liberia
      • Mali
      • Mauritania
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
      • São Tomé and Príncipe
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
  • Politics
    • Elections Map
  • Economy
  • Society
    • Climate crisis
  • Culture
  • Specials
    • From the fellows
    • Radical Activism in Africa
    • On Food Security & COVID19
    • #EndSARS
    • Covid-19
    • Travelling While African
    • From the wit-hole countries…
    • Living in Translation
    • Red Sea
    • Beautiful Game
  • Podcast
    • Into Africa Podcast
    • Africa Science Focus Podcast
    • Think African Podcast
  • Debating Ideas

Social Policy

Home›Debating Ideas›Category: "Social Policy"
  • DI/JPALSocial Policy

    Prepaid versus Postpaid Electricity: Provision, Access, and Efficiency

    By Arnaud Dakpogan and Jack Ellington
    May 19, 2022
    The politics of energy provision, access, and efficiency in SSA
    Read More
  • Debating IdeasDI/JPALSocial Policy

    Challenges of Fingerprinting: Will Digital IDs Revolutionise Service Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa?

    By Aimee Hare
    March 17, 2022
    Can the challenges of data access on service delivery be resolved through new technology?
    Read More
  • Debating IdeasDI/JPALDigital SolutionsSocial Policy

    Leakages

    By Nidhi Parekh and Thokozile Malaza
    March 3, 2022
    Can technology help minimize waste and corruption?
    Read More
  • Debating IdeasDI/JPALDigital SolutionsSocial PolicySpecialised Series

    Can Digital Technology Help Create A More Gender-Equal Society?

    By Nidhi Parekh and Thokozile Malaza
    February 17, 2022
    How gender imbalance undermines development
    Read More
  • Debating IdeasDI/JPALFinancializationSocial PolicySpecialised Series

    The Challenges of Targeting Social Protection Programs

    By Teresa Lezcano Cadwallade and Thokozile Malaza
    February 10, 2022
    How can governments identify the poorest in society to deliver social benefits to?
    Read More
  • Debating IdeasDI/JPALMobile MoneySocial Policy

    The Rise of Mobile Money in Sub-Saharan Africa: Has the Digital Technology Lived up to its Promise?

    By Debate Ideas
    February 3, 2022
    Has mobile money lived up to its promise?
    Read More
  • Debating IdeasDI/JPALKenyaSocial Policy

    Preparing for Shocks through Universal Basic Income: Evidence from Kenya

    By Nidhi Parekh
    January 20, 2022
    How a Universal Basic Income helped people survive large unanticipated shocks such as the current Covid-19 pandemic.
    Read More
  • AnthropologyCOVID-19Covid-19Debating IdeasPolitics and Political EconomySocial PolicySouth Africa

    Culture, Covid and Social Cohesion in Rural Southern Africa

    By Leslie Bank
    March 16, 2021
    Social rules in rural South Africa ahead of the Third Wave
    Read More
  • AnthropologyCovid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasDecolonisationSocial PolicySouth Africa

    The Sociology of Ground Zero: The South African Variant and Colonial Prejudice

    By Leslie Bank
    February 25, 2021
    Colonial prejudice: the sociology of Ground Zero
    Read More
  • Civil SocietyDebating IdeasDemocracy and ElectionsFeminismGender PoliticsHorn of AfricaHumanitarianismPeace ProcessesSocial PolicySudan

    A Road Paved with Thorns: Access to Justice for Women in Conflict Areas in Darfur

    By Wini Omer
    February 19, 2021
    Civil Society Dialogue in the Horn of Africa Series: Justice for Women Darfur
    Read More
1 2

Subscribe to our newsletter

Click here to subscribe to our free weekly newsletter and never miss a thing!

  • 81.7K+
    Followers

Find us on Facebook

Interactive Elections Map

Keep up to date with all the African elections.

Recent Posts

  • The unaccountability of Liberia’s polluting miners
  • Africa Elections 2023: All the upcoming votes
  • “Poking the Leopard’s Anus”: Legal Spectacle and Queer Feminist Politics
  • Introducing Parselelo and a new climate focus
  • The ‘Hustler’ Fund: Kenya’s Approach to National Transformation

Editor’s Picks

CountryEditor's PicksPolitics

Colonialists didn’t fail to root out Africa’s tribal politics. They created it.

In the West, rulers used notions of race to subjugate black people. In Africa, they used ethnicity.  Standing in line at a Nairobi polling station to cast my ballot in ...
  • Rain clouds over a farming village near Iringa, Tanzania. Credit: UN Photo/Wolff

    “There isn’t any”: Tanzania’s land myth and the brave New Alliance

    By Tz
    May 15, 2018
  • Mauritius oil spill. Credit: Vel Moonien.

    Mauritius: A class action lawsuit bubbles two years after the oil spill

    By Vel Moonien
    August 26, 2022
  • Chad: The bed Déby made

    By Helga Dickow
    April 22, 2021
  • French and Chad military participate in a flag ceremony to commemorate the launch of Operation Barkhane. Credit: U.S. Army Africa photos by Chief Warrant Officer 3 Martin S. Bonner.

    Chad: France firmly backs continuity, but will the people?

    By Kyrre Berland & Chris Brew
    April 28, 2021

Brought to you by


Creative Commons

Creative Commons Licence
Articles on African Arguments are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
  • Cookies
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • en English
    am Amharicar Arabicny Chichewazh-CN Chinese (Simplified)en Englishfr Frenchde Germanha Hausait Italianpt Portuguesest Sesothosn Shonaes Spanishsw Swahilixh Xhosayo Yorubazu Zulu
© Copyright African Arguments 2020
By continuing to browse this site, you agree to our use of cookies.
en English
am Amharicar Arabicny Chichewazh-CN Chinese (Simplified)en Englishfr Frenchde Germanha Hausait Italianpt Portuguesest Sesothosn Shonaes Spanishsw Swahilixh Xhosayo Yorubazu Zulu