Search Results for: Diaspora
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Africa and the War on Drugs
About the Authors Neil Carrier is a researcher based at the African Studies Centre, Oxford. He has published widely on the substance khat, which he first studied ... -
Why I have been investing in African Stock Markets – By James Duddridge MP
I write this article having just visited the Casablanca stock exchange – Africa’s third largest Bourse after the Johannesburg and Nigerian Stock Exchanges and possibly the ... -
South Sudan cannot afford another exclusive political settlement – By Paul Murphy
As the number of people killed and displaced by South Sudan’s bloody, month-long civil conflict continues to rise, negotiations taking place in Addis Ababa have inevitably ... -
DRC: December’s attacks show post-M23 domestic incohesion abounds – By Alex Ntung
On 29th December 2013, a group of assailants launched what appeared to be a series of coordinated attacks on the DRC’s state television channel, the capital ... -
Mamphela Ramphele: “the ANC gives people food parcels, Agang builds citizens” – By Magnus Taylor
Mamphela Ramphele, leader of the “˜Agang’ political platform in South Africa, arrived in London this week with the intention of wooing business and the diaspora. Whether ... -
Injustice and indifference: Victoire Ingabire is sentenced to 15 years on appeal in Rwanda – By Kris Berwouts
Whilst I am not normally very superstitious, I could hardly imagine a more appropriate day to wait for the verdict on Victoire Ingabire’s trial in appeal. ... -
Al Shabaab and the irrational insurgency – By Devon Knudsen
Following the Westgate attack, many argued that al Shabaab demonstrated a shift in tactics, targets, and capacities. Two attacks in Nairobi over the past several days ... -
COMPETITION: African Argument of the year 2013
For the second year running African Arguments is running a competition to determine the most popular article of the last 12 months. We have composed a ... -
Kenya: an illiberal backslide in the era of the ICC – By Magnus Taylor
In recent weeks I’ve had some interesting conversations, interviews and more formal sessions on the current political situation in Kenya. In the main, these have focused ... -
Somalia: the world’s most dangerous place? – Good book, bad title – Review by Magnus Taylor
James Fergusson’s “˜The World’s Most Dangerous Place: inside the outlaw state of Somalia‘ is a good book with a bad title – lending itself too much ...