Politics
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Africa and the War on Drugs: the West African cocaine trade is not just business as usual – By James Cockayne
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – and series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: fighting a-historical analysis of the West African trade – By Gernot Klantschnig
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – and series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: a new book and online debate from African Arguments
On 22nd October the RAS, Zed Books and the International African Institute will be launching (at SOAS) the latest book in the African Arguments ... -
Sudan and South Sudan: Reviewing the 2012 Addis Ababa Peace Agreements (part II) – By Aly Verjee
Part one of this article examined the details of the security and border protocols agreed in the new Cooperation Agreement between Sudan and South ... -
Mali: military intervention is necessary, inevitable but (until now) impossible – By Gregory Mann
Nobody seems to know what to do about Mali. In late September, the world’s biggest tradeshow in global governance – the UN General Assembly ... -
Mo Ibrahim Index and Governance Prize: time to stop measuring leaders and start rewarding countries? – By Dele Meiji Fatunla
This year’s launch of the Mo Ibrahim Index on Governance and the Mo Ibrahim Prize for leadership was full of signs and signals. In ... -
Ozwald Boateng: unlikely champion of the African Development Bank – By Dele Meiji Fatunla
When the African Development Bank announced its decision to launch a $ 22 billion bond to its member states it found an unlikely supporter ... -
‘Ten weeks in Africa’: aid industry skewered in new novel – By Peter Gill
The aid world needs to look to its laurels if it is to avoid becoming the target of a new generation of novelists. Those ... -
An African Ode to the Glorious European Union on its Ascension to NOBELity – By Bright Simons
Your Excellencies, the European Union, We salute you! We bring, from the awed continent of Africa, presents. Gold, myrrh, and frankincense, we pray thee, ... -
Time to improve state participation in Africa’s extractive industries – By Zanele Hlatshwayo
The rise in commodities prices over the past decade (referred to by some economists as the “˜commodities super-cycle’) has led to a renewed debate ...
