Uganda: Boda Bodas - Half a Century of Getting to Places, Madly

50-odd years ago, Ali Mayende's innovation in the border town of Busia sparked a revolution that has become the lifeblood of East African public transportation. Read more »

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 »

Africa: Africa's Unique Path to Sustainable Industrialisation

As a latecomer to industrialisation, the continent faces some unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities. Read more »

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 »

Sudan: 'One Army, One People'? the Ethnic and Regional Politics of Sudan's Military and Militias and Its Role in Coups and Wars Past and 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 »

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 »

Africa: Kenyans Look to the Foggy Heavens for Water Amid State Neglect

With millions lacking decent access to water, growing numbers are using cheap innovations like fog harvesting to take it straight from the air. Read more »

Africa: A Mythical Giant Snake Is Helping Raise Climate Awareness in Malawi

Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action. Read more »

South Sudan: Controversial General Elections and the Future of Democratic Transition in South 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: Tinubu's Cabinet Nominees - Renewed Hope or Recycled Tropes?

Tinubu's cabinet is stacked with political heavyweights: nine ex-governors, several former cabinet ministers and legislators. An indication, perhaps, of growing anxieties about the… Read more »

Ethiopia: How Years of Tension in Amhara Boiled to the Surface

Deepening suspicions that Abiy was plotting against the Amhara is driving the Fano rebellion against Addis Ababa. Read more »

Africa: Africa Elections 2023 - All the Upcoming Votes

A regularly updated list and interactive map of the upcoming elections in Africa in 2023. Read more »

Algeria: Algeria - the Hirak and Its Aftermath

Algerian journalists are on the frontline of an unprecedented wave of state repression against the uprising that toppled former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Read more »

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 »

Sudan: Not the Last Chapter - Making Sense of a Senseless War, Readings 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: India's Call for African Union to Join the G20 and the China Factor

The Hindu nationalist leader's G20 Africa membership appeal casts him in a heroic, anti-imperialist glow. What does his silence on the same issue among BRICS members reveal? Read more »

East Africa: Isaias Afwerki - Beijing's Friend in the Horn

Under pressure from the West seeking to counter two decades of Chinese influence, can Beijing rely on their man in Asmara? Read more »

Sudan: A Road Full of Corpses and a Town Empty Save for Rebel Militias

Two more mass graves with over 146 bodies in West Darfur are only the "tip of the iceberg", residents say. As peace efforts stall and the ICC opens a new investigation, when will… Read more »

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 »

Africa: Zimbabwean Legend, Thomas Mapfumo Retires in Exile

After five decades on the stage, one of the continent's great musical innovators, and an outspoken critic of corrupt politics, takes his last bow - in exile, because it was too… Read more »

Africa: Dear EU, Commemorating Climate Victims Is Good but Action Is Better

Ahead of the first ever EU day for the victims of the global climate crisis, let's remember who's responsible for the worsening situation. Read more »

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 »

Africa: 20 Years After Maputo, It's a Long Road Ahead to Gender Equality

Two decades on from a landmark treaty advancing the rights of African women, gender equality remains alive on paper, elusive in practice. Read more »

South Africa: The Calling of Bees - Healing and Hope After Covid-19

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 »

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 »