Africa: 'A Robbery On So Large a Scale' - 140 Years After the Berlin West Africa Conference

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: Smart Gamble or Foolish Risk? the Case for and Against Nuclear in Africa

Nuclear energy is low carbon, high intensity and consistent, but also expensive, hazardous, and perhaps simply unnecessary. 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 »

Guinea: When the Putschists Overstay Their Welcome

With neither elections nor a promised new constitution in sight, Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya's three-year junta is tightening its grip on power - even as its foreign friends salivate at… 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 »

Nigeria: Who's Afraid of Aliko Dangote?

The $19 billion Dangote Refinery could meet Nigeria's refined product needs. This upsets prosperous local importers - and the regulators who have lived comfortably in their… Read more »

Senegal: Senegal's Democracy Prevails

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 »

Nigeria: 'I Almost Gave Up' - Famers in North Nigeria Sweat in Rising Heatwaves

A subsidy programme is helping farmers as the climate gets hotter and more unpredictable, but experts say it's far from enough. Read more »

Cameroon: 'All Is Lost'? - Cameroon's Controversial Logging in Biodiverse Ebo Forest

Why has the government awarded a logging concession in the mega biodiverse Ebo forest to a little-known company? Read more »

Nigeria: The Jihadis Are Stalking Benin

Bandits from the Northern Nigerian hotspots of Zamfara and Katsina states are crossing over into northern Benin, buying up property and recruiting young men. Is this the moment… Read more »

Cameroon: Conflict, Land Dispossession, and the Struggle for Gender Equality in Cameroon

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 »

Nigeria: The Impunity of Tinubu's War On the Media

The Tinubu administration took off where Buhari left: arbitrary arrests of journalists, indefinite detentions and even alleged executions. The logic of it defies reason - save for… Read more »

Nigeria: One Year Later, Tinubu Struggles With the Economic Question

Digging the country out of the hole it fell into during the Buhari years required an ingenuity never made available under Tinubu's economic shock treatment programme. Read more »

Nigeria: Tinubu's Nigeria - a Year At the Edge of the Abyss

University students are among those hit hardest by the Tinubu administration's IMF-directed austerity programme. Read more »

Liberia: Will Liberia's Joseph Boakai Come Out As a Pillar of Justice or a Beacon of the Establishment?

Establishing the War and Economic Crimes Court was among Candidate Boakai strongest campaign pledges. As president, it is his most vexing duty. Read more »

Sierra Leone: '1.5c? We're Already There', Says Sierra Leone's Climate Minister

Jiwoh Abulai, Environment and Climate Change Minister of Sierra Leone talks 30x30, land rights, carbon credits, climate finance, and more. 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: Democracy in Peril - Amb Johnnie Carson on Situation in Senegal

The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. Read more »

Africa: Mali - Defiant and Alone, Will the Junta Defeat the Jihadis?

Revolting against the French, expelling a UN force and walking out of ECOWAS, the Assimi Goita junta is taking out its frustrations with the jihadis on everyone. How does it save… Read more »

Nigeria: The Silence of the Obidients

With the Tinubu government's IMF-prescribed shock therapy convulsing the economy almost a year after the botched presidential election they believe cost Peter Obi victory, what… 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 »

Liberia: Could Joseph Boakai Do a Biden in Liberia's Run-Off Election?

At 78, Boakai is the veteran bridesmaid of Liberian politics; like his American counterpart, he runs against a populist megastar with a comical grasp of governance. Will the… 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 »

Cameroon: How Climate Change Is Forcing Elephants and Humans to Share Space

As northern Cameroon heats up, elephants are migrating in search of food and water and increasingly finding themselves in face-to-face to humans. Read more »