Africa: Malaria Is a Women's Rights Issue

When malaria rages, the women whose labour, visible and invisible, is the bedrock of the care economy, suffer; the effects reverberate across society. Read more »

Africa: $120bn Isn't Enough. Here Are 3 Ideas for a Truly Bigger Better World Bank

Leaders have called for a record replenishment of the Bank's grants and concessional lending arm. Much bigger changes are needed. Read more »

Africa: #IDA21 - Africa's Call to Triple Finance a Chance for the North to Rebuild Trust

Leaders called on donors to replenish the World Bank's grants and concessional loans arm with "at least $120 billion" for debt and climate. Read more »

Africa: How Continental Competition Policy Strengthens the African Marketplace

Regional price distortions hurt small traders the most; as more states adopt competition rules, it's the traders and consumers who will win big. Read more »

Africa: Climate Finance - Did the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings Move the Dial?

An expert panel give their verdict on whether the Spring Meetings offered Africa hope that climate finance will be expanded and reformed. Read more »

Africa: Where Planting Trees in Africa Works and, Crucially, Doesn't

Restoring degraded forests is essential, but planting trees in rangelands is largely ineffective and often damaging. Read more »

Africa: Political Dynamics in the Horn of Africa - an Analyst's Pitfall

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: Europe's Indifference to Rwanda's Atrocities Is Costing Congolese Lives

A decade ago, Europe responded to Rwanda's incursions into the DRC with sanctions. Today, it's turning a blind eye - with devastating consequences for the Congolese. Read more »

Africa: Calling Off UN Regional Climate Weeks Exposes Rich Nations' Lack of Goodwill

Funding these essential meetings would cost little to rich countries but provide a potentially invaluable forum for developing countries. Read more »

Africa: Modelling Injustice - South Experts Call for Climate Model Paradigm Shift

Projections that assume the Global North will continue to over-emit help perpetuate inequalities and violate principles of equity, warn scientists. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Democratic Dividend

30-odd years after the restoration of multiparty democracy, is it time to reassess the practice of democracy? Read more »

Africa: The 'Not Expected' but 'Expected' Opening Speech of the African Union Commission Chairperson

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: Henry Chakava (1946 - 2024) - the Publisher Who Pricked the People Into Consciousness

Chakava is best remembered for publishing some of the giants of East African literature - Okot p'Bitek, Mazrui, Meja Mwangi, Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye, and most notably (and… Read more »

Africa: TotalEnergies At 100 - a Legacy of Destruction in Africa

Displacements, environmental damage, and CO2 emissions from projects in Mozambique and Uganda are just the latest chapter in a long story. Read more »

Africa: The Future of IGAD Amidst Turmoil in the Horn

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: The AfDB's $61bn Initiative Will Transform Agriculture but for Whom?

The one-size-fits-all Dakar II plan risks sacrificing biodiversity and smallholders for the sake of private interests. There is an alternative. Read more »

Africa: How a Shipping Carbon Tax Could Help Africa Build Climate Resilient Trade

Pricing the emissions of the international shipping industry could raise $100 billion/yr. Read more »

Africa: 'I'd Give Anything to Go Back' - Pygmy Communities Face Eviction in Virunga

Despite a 2022 law that protects indigenous land rights, displacements in the name of conservation continue in the DRC. Read more »

Africa: Democracy At Work - Senegalese Citizens Reshaping the Social Contract

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: I Was the First African to Receive the Goethe Medal. I Just Gave It Back

I cannot stay silent or keep an official decoration from a government this callous to human suffering in Gaza, explains the award-winning writer. Read more »

Africa: Greenwashing Blood Money Should Have No Place in African Sport

TotalEnergies' sponsorship of AFCON, a celebration of African unity and resilience, was an insult to people across the continent. Read more »

Africa: The First Oil Shock - February 1974 and the Making of Our Times

Triggered by the 1973 Yom Kippur war, an unprecedented surge in global oil prices took hold the following year. Spiralling inflation forced workers, students and soldiers onto the… Read more »

Africa: 'We Demand' - a Collective Statement to the African Union

A movement of dozens of African civil society groups call on the AU to take actions in pursuit of climate justice, peace, and equality. Read more »

Africa: Ethiopia's Quest for Sea Access and the Question of Somali Sovereignty

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: Africa in the Global Village

Hidden in plain sight, Africans are in the thick of the kind of history-making that will define the 21st century. Read more »