January 25, 2023
Liberia: The Unaccountability of Liberia's Polluting Miners
The government's reports and fines have not yet been sufficient to stop communities suffering from poisoned rivers. Read more »
January 17, 2023
Uganda: 'Poking the Leopard's Anus'- Legal Spectacle and Queer Feminist Politics
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 »
January 16, 2023
Africa: Introducing Parselelo and a New Climate Focus
African Arguments is excited to announce two big changes. Read more »
January 05, 2023
Kenya: The 'Hustler' Fund - Kenya's Approach to National Transformation
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 »
December 21, 2022
Nigeria: The Insecurity Ahead of Nigeria's 2023 Elections Is Unprecedented
What will this mean for the running and credibility of the polls? Read more »
December 20, 2022
Nigeria: Lagos Is Unique but Not in the Way People Think
The aspects of Lagos that are often vilified are exceptional only in their scale. Read more »
December 19, 2022
Africa: Why Africa's Patronage System Is Under Threat Like Never Before
Today's protesters and insurgents don't want to greater access to a corrupt and ineffective system. They want to abolish it. Read more »
December 16, 2022
Zambia: Why President Hakainde Hichilema Is Adored Abroad But Not at Home
Since coming to power in 2021, Hichilema has enthusiastically courted the approval of the West, often at Zambia's expense. Read more »
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe - Vice-President's Secret Plan to Be President Stays On Schedule
President Mnangagwa was not seriously challenged at the ZANU-PF congress. But neither was the powerful Vice-President Chiwenga. Read more »
December 15, 2022
Africa: The Best African Films of 2022
In an uncertain year for the industry, African cinema continued to thrive as filmmakers found industrious ways to create despite myriad roadblocks. Many of the films on this list… Read more »
December 14, 2022
Africa: The Best African Books of 2022
From the thought provoking and evocative to the laughter inducing, here are our best African books of 2022 (in no particular order). Read more »
December 13, 2022
Africa: The Best African Albums of 2022
2022 was the year African musicians levelled up big time. Every other month arrived with reports of international record deals, significant chart achievements, or major award… Read more »
December 08, 2022
Africa: Why 30×30 Would Be the Worst Possible Outcome of COP15
The plan to turn 30% of the earth into Protected Areas is based on a deeply unscientific and racist logic. Read more »
December 06, 2022
South Africa: Pandemic Policies in South Africa - a Model of Neocolonial State Capture
The huge Covid death toll - by far the worst in Africa - occurred not in spite of Western biomedical practices but because of them, argues a new book from the African Arguments… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Africa: Africa Elections 2022/2023 - All the Upcoming Votes
A regularly updated list and interactive map of the upcoming elections in Africa in 2022 and 2023. Read more »
Somalia: Berbera - The Making of a Global Port, and the Unmaking of a People
Having survived centuries of successive governments, colonialism and war, have Berbera's dockworkers finally met their match? Read more »
November 30, 2022
Africa: On Blackqueer Fugitivity Beyond the Nation-State
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 »
November 29, 2022
Ghana: Ghana's Anti-LGBTQ Bill Sparks Spike in 'Legally Sanctioned' Extortion
Since the law was proposed, instances of violence - including seemingly organised crime - against Ghana's queer community have increased. Read more »
November 25, 2022
Africa: "The Scare Is Real" - Prominent Ugandans Fear Poisoning
More than 1,800 people have died of poisoning here since 2009. Now, school principals and MPs fear accepting food or drinks as threats rise. Read more »
November 24, 2022
Malawi: 'I Did It All On a Phone' - the Hotline Changing Health Outcomes in Malawi
Health care in Malawi faces many challenges. A free national hotline is helping address one of them. Read more »
Africa: Indian Exceptionalism and Normative Power in Africa
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 »
November 23, 2022
Tanzania: 'Kids Tell Us It's Pointless' - Tanga's Hidden Histories of Land and Sea
Through years of conversation, rarely heard stories of hope, regret and resilience - which destabilise typical development tropes - emerged. Read more »
November 17, 2022
Africa: Is It Time to Abandon Decolonisation?
Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book. Read more »
November 15, 2022
Morocco: Generational Gaps in Feminist Movements
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 »
November 11, 2022
Africa: Agroecology Is the African-Led Solution We Need From COP27
Industrialised agriculture is big driver of emissions. Agroecology is sustainable, resilient, high yield, and gives farmers sovereignty. Read more »