Africa: Slam Dunk for Business - The Growth of the African Sports Economy

African sport is going global: and with it come business opportunities, deals and alliances. Read more »

Africa: Two IMF Fixes That Could Channel Billions to Africa

The formula for allocating SDRs, an invaluable source of funding, was agreed in 1944 and channels the most money to the richest nations. Read more »

Africa: Adaptation Q&A - What's At Stake for Africa At COP28?

What is adaptation? What will African countries be arguing for at COP28? Against whom? Read more »

Africa: The Idea That Green Growth Will Save Africa Is Gaslighting 101

The marketisation of climate action, epitomised by Kenya's President Ruto, allows the super-rich to buy safety while the rest of us are left behind. Read more »

Africa: Loss and Damage Q&A - What's At Stake for Africa At COP28?

Why is the Loss and Damage fund so important for Africa and what will likely come out of the negotiations at COP28? Read more »

Africa: African Women Won't Be Heard At Cop So We Wrote Our Own Climate Plan

The Women's Climate Assembly brought together movements from across Africa and came up with a powerful declaration. Read more »

Africa: What Does Africa Need Most From COP28?

A panel of African climate experts identify the continent's key priorities at the UAE climate talks. Read more »

Africa: The Loud Silence Around Africa's Complicity in the Slave Trade

When will we have an honest conversation about Africa's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? Read more »

Africa: Green Exploitation Is Still Exploitation

If leaders give in to the temptation of short-term gains, the extraction of Africa's transition minerals will follow familiar colonial dynamics. Read more »

Africa: Without Warning - Africa's Lack of Weather Stations Is Costing Lives

The US and EU, with a population of 1.1 billion, have 636 weather radar stations. Africa, with a population of 1.2 billion, has just 37. Read more »

Africa: African Makers Deserve New Things

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 »

Africa: Next Stop COP - the Compromises At the Heart of the Loss and Damage Text

After a year of debate, developing countries made significant concessions in their eagerness to pass recommendations that now go to COP28. Read more »

Africa: Liberal Democracy Is in Crisis, Does It Need Rethinking?

Authoritarianism is on the rise, coups back in fashion, and elections reduced to a perfunctory ritual. How do we reverse the slide? Read more »

Africa: President Ruto Is Not Africa's Mia Mottley

Kenya's president has reinvented himself as Africa's climate champion, but his policy contradictions reveal that this is just his latest hustle. Read more »

Africa: Revealed - Under One-Quarter of UK Climate Aid to Africa Goes to African-Based Orgs

The UK channels most of its climate aid to Africa through Western organisations, including $1 billion through private consultancies. Read more »

Africa: Who Stands With Palestine?

The UN's failure to intervene effectively in the current crisis is sowing the seeds of its eventual demise - even as Israel's principle enabler destroys the last vestiges of its… Read more »

Africa: Green Hydrogen - Africa's Chance to Break the Colonial Extractive Dynamic

European countries are, once again, desperate for the continent's resources. Why aren't African governments demanding more in return? Read more »

Africa: New Research Further Debunks Legend of the Green Revolution

As farming becomes more precarious, some are calling for a second Green Revolution, this time in Africa. India's experience provides dire warnings. Read more »

Africa: Africans, Slavery and Reparations - Why Nana Akufo-Addo's Claims Are Deeply Flawed

While the Ghanaian president made bold claims for reparations to African states, the African elite's long silence about its role in the slave trade speaks volumes. Read more »

Africa: African Concerns Offer Preview of Global Stocktake Tensions

The synthesis report hints at fossil fuel consensus, but African negotiators are displeased with its approach to equity, finance, and tech transfer. Read more »

Africa: Has African Climate Fiction Already Shown Us the Future?

From cities within sand-storms to biotech implants, African writers are imagining diverse climate futures. Here are five recommended reads. Read more »

Africa: It's Time to Fix the Problem of Africa's 500% Debt Premium

Rather than having too much debt, the challenge for countries in Africa may be that their debt is just too expensive. But there are remedies. Read more »

Africa: Did the Africa Climate Summit Fulfil Its Vision?

A month on from the first ever Africa Climate Summit, a panel of experts reflect on its successes and failures. Read more »

Africa: What Africa Needs From the World Bank Annual Meetings

$1 spent on climate adaption can yield up to $10, not to mention immeasurable other benefits, yet efforts remains chronically underfunded. Read more »

Africa: Building the South-South Feminist Archive - an Interview With Ghiwa Sayegh of Kohl Journal

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 »