Rwanda: Why We're Taking the UK's Asylum Seekers - Rwanda's Explanation

Our detractors have chosen to misconstrue the reasons behind our partnership with London, not least one of our neighbours. Read more »

Nigeria: President Tinubu - an Ambivalent Record?

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 »

Malawi: Cyclone Freddy Dumped Six Months' Rain in Six Days

With the death toll rising and the homeless increasing, Malawi, already grappling with a major cholera outbreak, sends out an SoS. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's Curious Voter Turnout Problem

Why do Nigerian voters disappear when new technology is introduced at the polling booth? 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 »

Mozambique: 'Nobody Imagined It Would Be So Intense' - Mozambique After Freddy

While Mozambicans count the cost after the deadly Cyclone Freddy, people in Beira continue to wait for support four years after Idai. Read more »

Madagascar: Madagascar's 8th Cyclone in 13 Months Compounds Climate Crises

Though it escaped the worst impacts of Freddy, it hit as Madagascar was still rebuilding from a devastating cyclone in January and six in 2022. Read more »

Libya: Libya's Captured Prosecutor?

Attorney-General Al-Siddiq Al-Sour grabs the headlines for his anti-corruption purge, but critics say he's hostage to shadowy interests. 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 »

Uganda: 'Enemies of the State' - Uganda Targets Climate Activists in Quiet Crackdown

Activists say the government is using arrests and psychological torture to avoid signs of abuse that could lead to bad publicity for EACOP investors. Read more »

Uganda: Well-Funded Riddles - Notes From Uganda's Sexual Culture War

As Christians fall out over gay rights, the Ugandan state, built on the martyrs who resisted homosexuality, has some soul-searching to do. Read more »

Djibouti: Djibouti Fiddles Amid the Scramble for the Red Sea

Gateway to the Indo-Pacific, Djibouti is becoming the site of a 21st century scramble for ports, military bases, and economic models. 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 »

Somalia: The International Community Must Reconsider Its Engagement With Somaliland

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 »

Uganda: Unpacking the Geopolitics of Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill

As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni's authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. 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 »

Malawi: What Next in Chakwera's Anti-Corruption Crusade ?

A scandal from the last regime forced the president to fire senior officials, suspend his VP and risk breaking the ruling coalition. Read more »

Africa: Who Wants to Hear About White Saviourism Gone Wrong?

A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It's been rapturously received in the West. Read more »

Africa: 'Mainstream History Was Written By the Coloniser...It's Time We Wrote Ours'

An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum's 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. Read more »

Somalia: Conflict In Las Anod and Crisis in Somaliland

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: 'Africanise or Perish!' Climate Remains High On AU Agenda

From supporting Barbados' plan to transform global climate finance, to pursuing G20 membership, climate was a key issue at the recent summit. Read more »

Nigeria: Did Nigeria's Election Tech Fail or Was It Sabotaged?

Young voters put their faith in digital technology. But at polling units nationwide, many were transported to an elections twilight zone. Read more »

Somalia: Conflict in Somaliland - Beyond the Clannism Convention

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 »