July 11
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 »
July 04
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 »
July 02
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 »
June 13
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 »
May 30
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 »
May 03
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 »
April 17
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 »
March 14
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 »
February 20
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 »
February 19
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 »
February 13
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 »
February 09
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 »
November 16, 2023
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 »
November 09, 2023
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 »
November 04, 2023
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 »
October 11, 2023
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 »
October 03, 2023
Liberia: Why Liberia's President Weah Must Go (Democratically)
Liberia's disaffected citizens are more than justified in hoping that the 10 October election brings change. Read more »
August 18, 2023
Liberia: Young People Are the Real Peacekeepers in Liberia
A generation with no memory of the civil war will be voting in October - despite their abiding loss of faith in Liberia's politicians. Read more »
August 16, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria's Coastal Communities Build Flood Barriers With Mud and Sticks
As they continue to wait in vain for state intervention amid rising sea levels, people in Akwa Ibom are taking matters into their own hands. Read more »
August 15, 2023
Niger: Niger - The Resource Politics of a Post-Colonial Revolt
FrançAfrique, the opaque independence deal that supplied Africa's resources to France, is being dismantled one coup at a time. Is Mr Yevgeny Prigozhin the new master behind… Read more »
July 28, 2023
West Africa: Will the Sahel Survive Another Coup?
An Arab, deposed President Bazoum's attempts to shuffle his Fulani-dominated Republican Guard, may have triggered the coup. With French and US troops stationed there, and Russia in… Read more »
July 19, 2023
West Africa: How Nigeria's Fuel Subsidy Shock Jolted Cameroon's Economy
In Cameroon, the unintended consequences of Nigeria's fuel subsidy withdrawal ripple across the beleaguered Anglophone region. Read more »
July 12, 2023
Cameroon: Paul Biya's Ghostly Legacy in Cameroon - The Absence That Shaped a Nation
In power for 41 years, the 90 year-old president has ruled mostly in absentia, a ghostly embodiment of a gerontocracy that has gifted its people the concept of Waithood. Read more »
July 06, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria's Security Crisis - Under Tinubu, Continuity Will Lead to Calamity
President Tinubu's response to Nigeria's security crisis so far signals much of the same inaction. Should the UK intervene? Read more »