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    Men Fighting, Women Breaking-up: Sudanese Women’s Movements, the Wing of the Patriarch?

    Just how patriarchal is the Sudanese women's movement?
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  • Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda
    By Kristof Titeca
    March 10, 2023
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    Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill

    As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni’s authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. On 1 March, 2023 the Ugandan parliament granted ...
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    By Kris Berwouts
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    Felix Tshisekedi’s Search For Real Power, Two Years On

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    By Glanis Changachirere
    December 8, 2020
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    The Gendering of Violence in Zimbabwean Politics

    The Series: Zimbabwe Now: Post-Coup, Mid-Covid
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    November 26, 2020
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    Episode 9, African Arguments – African Voices: Permanent Minorities and the Politics of Survivors: A conversation with Mahmood Mamdani

    Episode 8, African Arguments – African Voices with Mahmoud Mamdani
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    By Alex de Waal
    March 31, 2020
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    COVID-19 in Africa: “Know your Epidemic, Act on its Politics.”

    COVID-19 in Africa: Know your Epidemic, Act on Its Politics
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    Alex profiled in Nov. 08 Harper’s

    A young, NYC-based novelist, Nick McDonell, asked Alex (his former Harvard prof) if he could accompany him on his recent travels into Sudan. The upshot is ...
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