Africa: Eritrean Cycling - How a Colonial Legacy Became a National Passion

Italian Fascists used cycling to demonstrate their racial superiority; Eritrean cyclists were soon embarrassing them. Today, a new generation of world-beaters is escaping another… Read more »

Africa: How Saving the Pangolin Became a Nigerian Conservation Agenda

Nigeria's pangolins face extinction. One organisation is committed to reversing the trend - and coopting communities into conservation. Read more »

Zambia: Zambia Faces 21-Hour Power Cuts As Lake Kariba Dries Up

Zambia and Zimbabwe are looking to diversify their energy mix as climate change linked droughts and heat make hydropower less reliable. 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 »

Africa: When Will African Leaders Resist the Neocolonial Summons?

140 years after imperial powers at the Berlin Conference carved up the continent and its resources, Africa's leaders are still trooping to global centres of capital, committed to… 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 »

Ethiopia: Bridging the Nutritional Gap - a Call to Action for Burn Victims in Ethiopia

More than 75 percent of severely burned patients lose up to a quarter of their pre-admission weight and end up malnourished. Read more »

Africa: The Continent Falling Behind - Africa's Placement in the Global Feminist Foreign Policy Discourse

Why has the Afro-feminist movement remained conspicuously absent in global discussions on Feminist Foreign Policy? Read more »

Egypt: The Failure of Militarized Diplomacy - Egypt's Coup and the Decline of Continental Hegemony

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 »

Libya: The Puzzle of Libya's Ancient Ruins

Libya is replete with ancient ruins, archaeological sites and cultural landmarks. Why aren't the locals interested? Read more »

Sudan: US Calls for Ceasefire - Sudan's Peace Process At a Crossroads

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 »

Southern Africa: DR Congo Quagmire Poses an Existential Question to Southern Africa's Leaders

Engineering a permanent state of conflict in eastern Congo ensures the continued flow of minerals into the bloodstream of global capitalism. SADC must protect the lives of the… 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 »

Mozambique: Seaweed Brings Local Benefits but May Not Save the Climate

Seaweed's ability to suck huge quantities of carbon out of the air have been questioned, but there are other reasons to grow it. Read more »

Africa: Moving the Talai - How the British Tried, and Failed, to Eliminate the Native Prophets of the Rift Valley

The evidence of colonial Britain's attempt to eliminate the Talai a century ago is only now coming to light, as the last of the survivors seek justice. Read more »

Africa: Green Hydrogen - Africa Is Not Europe's Battery

Like elsewhere on the continent, Tunisia's rush of proposed green hydrogen projects prioritise Europe's needs over its own. 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 »

Africa: How Progressive Taxation Can Raise Trillions for Climate Action

A new report finds that developed countries could raise $2 trillion in climate finance per year by raising their tax-to-GDP ratios by four points. Read more »

Africa: How Afrobeats Is Sampling Nostalgia for the Gen Zs

With the industry awash with money, global notoriety, bold Afrobeats producers are buying early Afrobeats records, channelling them to an audience seeking its slice of the musical… Read more »

Rwanda: Rwanda - the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Election

Kagame's latest electoral victory is testimony to the impressive work of the electoral commission in moulding the numbers to fit predetermined results. Read more »

Africa: Epidemic Preparedness - the Importance of Local Adaptation

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 »

Ethiopia: A Story Within a Story - the Making and Unmaking of Ethiopia's Imperial Messiah

This unauthorised biography of Abiy Ahmed is a nuanced, unsparing examination of a leader trying to hold together a republic being undone by its imperial legacy. Read more »

Africa: The Rise of the African Left

Bassirou Faye and PASTEF's victory in Senegal in March marked the stunning, decade-long rise of a leftist party. As Africa's Gen Z protest movements challenge the established… 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 »