May 24, 2023
Africa: 'Our Target Is Replacing Cement' - the Ethiopian Startup Thinking Big
Kubik promises to turn plastic waste into high quality affordable homes. We spoke to its CEO about dignity, safety, and thinking globally. Read more »
May 23, 2023
Africa: Remember Amid the Headlines - There's No Such Thing As a 'Natural' Disaster
Poor countries aren't disproportionately vulnerable to climate change because of geography or bad luck. Read more »
May 15, 2023
Africa: Presidential Term Limits and the Power of Precedent
Incumbents' appetites for third-term runs may be waning, but they still carry hugely disruptive political legacies. Read more »
April 27, 2023
Africa: Farmworkers Feel Heat As SA Wine Industry Eyes Climate Change
As vineyards strategise to keep the famous export flowing, farmworkers - seven of whom died recently of heat stroke - fear more extreme conditions. Read more »
April 25, 2023
Africa: Is the World Bank Really Going Green?
The Bank invests billions in fossil fuels, including through various opaque channels. Unless this changes, its public soul-searching will count for little. Read more »
April 20, 2023
Africa: 'He Laid Out the Earth for All Living Creatures' - Islam's Lessons for Climate
Islamic teachings are full of invocations to Muslims to revere nature, reject over-consumption, and live within planetary boundaries. Read more »
Africa: Scientists Urge Museveni to Respect LGBTI Rights
Dear President Museveni, Read more »
April 19, 2023
Africa: Why ZANU-PF Still Can't Dance to Chimurenga Music
ZANU-PF's aversion to protest music only confirms the lyrical power of a line of artists from Marley and Mapfumo to Winky D. Read more »
April 15, 2023
Africa: Inclusion and Innovation Key to African Media Sustainability
Forced to adapt to the political establishment, and financially beset by Big Data, what is the future of Africa's media? Read more »
April 13, 2023
Africa: Men Fighting, Women Breaking-Up - Sudanese Women's Movements, the Wing of the Patriarch?
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
April 06, 2023
Africa: Co-Optation of Feminisms - the Funders' Agenda
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
March 21, 2023
Africa: The Loud Part the IPCC Said Quietly, Global North Needs to Use Less Energy #AfricaClimateHope
You can't replace fossil fuels with renewables like swapping out a battery. The Global North will also have to drastically reduce its energy use. Read more »
March 17, 2023
Africa: Peering Into Africa's AI Future - a Roadmap for Digitisation
Africa can convert its rich cultural, biodiversity, and mineral resources into technological assets. But it must digitise them first. Read more »
Africa: The Invisible Labour of Africa in the Digital Revolution
Is it surprising that the unequal global division of labour that built Western capitalism is being reproduced on the world wide web? Read more »
March 14, 2023
Africa: Why France EACOP Case Might Embolden, Not Discourage, Activists
Though the legal claim against TotalEnergies was dismissed on technicalities, it set some bold precedents. Read more »
March 10, 2023
Africa: Why's the AfDB Siding With the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?
Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. Read more »
March 09, 2023
Africa: The COVID Consensus, African Studies and Internationalism
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
March 08, 2023
Africa: Who Wants to Hear About White Saviourism Gone Wrong?
A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It's been rapturously received in the West. Read more »
March 07, 2023
Africa: 'Mainstream History Was Written By the Coloniser...It's Time We Wrote Ours'
An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum's 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. Read more »
March 02, 2023
Africa: 'Africanise or Perish!' Climate Remains High On AU Agenda
From supporting Barbados' plan to transform global climate finance, to pursuing G20 membership, climate was a key issue at the recent summit. Read more »
February 24, 2023
Africa: Africa Has Its First Chief Heat Officer. Five Things Should Be On Her Agenda
Freetown's heat officer can set an example to Africa and the world as temperatures and risks rise. Read more »
February 21, 2023
Africa: The Battle for Africa - Covid Consensus As History of the Present
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
February 17, 2023
Africa: Africa Is Winning the War Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
Research is yielding better drugs, and governments and Big Pharma have been pushed into action. The elimination of once-killer diseases is in sight. Read more »
February 10, 2023
Africa: African Fiction in 2023
2022 saw writers from Africa and the Diaspora bring us some literary gems (see our list of Best Books of 2022). 2023 promises to be no different. So here we bring you a list of… Read more »
January 31, 2023
Africa: Blackness, Pan-African Consciousness and Women's Political Organising Through the Magazine AWA
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »