Africa: The EU's Landmark Carbon Tool Presents Major Catch-22 for Africa

The CBAM will push producers to decarbonise yet make it harder to do so. Our modelling suggests the policy could cut Africa's GDP by $25 billion. Read more »

Africa: We Analysed Climate Research On Africa. Here's What We Found

Just 25% of academic articles on energy transitions in Africa are by researchers on the continent. Read more »

Africa: Could the Militants Dismantle the Sahelian State?

Beleaguered by a decade of Salafi-jihadist attacks, riven by internal grievances and undermined by the corrupt Francafrique system of clientelism and extraction, are the Sahelian… Read more »

Africa: We've Already Breached Most of the Earth's Limits. How Can We Get Back?

Urgent action is needed on climate, the biosphere, freshwater, and fertiliser use to return to safe and just boundaries. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Topsy-Turvy Food Paradox

Why embrace a food system proven to be harmful to health, nutrition, dignity, equality, local economies, and the environment? Read more »

Africa: 'Don't Agonise, Organise!' Remembering Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem's Advocacy On Sudan

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: Four Actions Vulnerable Countries Need From COP28

From mobilising trillions (rather than billions) to raising ambitions, here's what most of the world needs from the critical climate talks. Read more »

Africa: 'Economic Bondage' - East Africa Farmers Worry Over What GMOs Might Mean

While proponents of genetic modification say it can increase yields, researchers point out that Africa already grows enough food. Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »