Africa: Sci-Fi, Folklore, and Faith - Korede Azeez's Unique Lens As a Nigerian Muslim Filmmaker

Korede Azeez is one of the Nigeria's most prolific breakout filmmakers. Her journey sheds light on the broader landscape of women in Nigeria's expanding film industry. Read more »

Africa: Anti-Malarial Drug Resistance Is Making Malaria Normal Again

As Egypt is certified malaria-free, the parasite is developing resistance to treatments, costing the continent $127 billion in lost GDP by 2030, 600,000 lives a year and,… Read more »

Africa: What Must Happen After the Summit of the Future?

What would the manifesto for a more inclusive world look like if it were drafted by people with disabilities? It was, a few weeks ago at a UN Summit. But is it enough? Read more »

Africa: The Deepfake Is a Powerful Weapon in the War in Sudan

While still rudimentary - voice-cloning models can't yet relay convincing Sudanese dialects - the use of Deepfakes is now routinely used on Sudan's violent, if bloodless,… Read more »

Africa: Responsibility to Protect - Africans' Fate Caught in Global Crises

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »

Africa: Cop or Con? How Big Conservation Captured Biodiversity Protection

There are two approaches to protecting biodiversity. One is colonial, abusive and ineffective, but hugely profitable for certain actors. Read more »

Africa: How the World Bank and IMF Can Truly Drive a Clean Energy Transition

The financial institutions' current approaches to funding renewable energy projects are far too limited, rigid, and opaque. Read more »

Africa: Africa in a Multipolar World

How does the continent press its advantages in the age of multipolarity, summit diplomacy and the new scramble for minerals for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Read more »

Africa: Did the Tumaini Initiative Exceed Its Mandate?

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »

Africa: Hundreds of Local Malawians Quietly Leave World Bank Climate Project

Experts warn that payment problems and a lack of local ownership could undermine the effectiveness of a nationwide adaptation project. Read more »

Africa: The Digital Future of Pharmacy in Africa

Amid the drain of Africa's trained healthcare workers to the West, pharmacists are increasingly playing a frontline role that goes beyond dispensing drugs. Read more »

Africa: On World Meningitis Day, Too Many People Are Dying of Cryptococcal Meningitis in Africa

Improving outcomes for patients requires urgent efforts to reduce the price of treatments and increase access to drugs. Read more »

Africa: In Memoriam - Elleni Centime Zeleke's Tizita

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »

Africa: Without Debt Relief, Africa Is Fighting Climate Change With Its Hands Tied

Africa spends nearly three times more servicing its external debt than it receives in climate finance. Debt cancelation is urgent and critical. Read more »

Africa: 'Absolutely Ridiculous' - Zombie Mines Multiply in SA's Opaque Coal Sector

African Arguments visited ten "active" coal mines around Ermelo in South Africa. Three were abandoned, and had been for years according to locals. Read more »

Africa: Hiding the Coco - Women Farmers Anticipating Old Age

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarly, original and activist writing from within… Read more »

Africa: Eritrean Cycling - How a Colonial Legacy Became a National Passion

Italian Fascists used cycling to demonstrate their racial superiority; Eritrean cyclists were soon embarrassing them. Today, a new generation of world-beaters is escaping another… Read more »

Africa: How Saving the Pangolin Became a Nigerian Conservation Agenda

Nigeria's pangolins face extinction. One organisation is committed to reversing the trend - and coopting communities into conservation. Read more »

Africa: Ethnicity and Geography in Nigeria's Leather Trading Industry

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarly, original and activist writing from within… Read more »

Africa: When Will African Leaders Resist the Neocolonial Summons?

140 years after imperial powers at the Berlin Conference carved up the continent and its resources, Africa's leaders are still trooping to global centres of capital, committed to… Read more »

Africa: William Bascom and the Ifẹ̀ Bronzes - Reconstructing Histories of Expropriation and Repatriation in Nigeria

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarly, original and activist writing from within… Read more »

Africa: The Continent Falling Behind - Africa's Placement in the Global Feminist Foreign Policy Discourse

Why has the Afro-feminist movement remained conspicuously absent in global discussions on Feminist Foreign Policy? Read more »

Southern Africa: DR Congo Quagmire Poses an Existential Question to Southern Africa's Leaders

Engineering a permanent state of conflict in eastern Congo ensures the continued flow of minerals into the bloodstream of global capitalism. SADC must protect the lives of the… Read more »

Africa: Moving the Talai - How the British Tried, and Failed, to Eliminate the Native Prophets of the Rift Valley

The evidence of colonial Britain's attempt to eliminate the Talai a century ago is only now coming to light, as the last of the survivors seek justice. Read more »

Africa: Green Hydrogen - Africa Is Not Europe's Battery

Like elsewhere on the continent, Tunisia's rush of proposed green hydrogen projects prioritise Europe's needs over its own. Read more »