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 »

Sudan: Mediation Pitfalls - How the Jeddah Peace Talks Complicate Sudanese Politics

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: Eritrea At 33 - Exporting Internal Strife, Navigating Regional Tensions and Steadily Looking East

More than a generation since it won its hard-fought independence, Eritrea is synonymous with Isaias Afwerki. For better. Or for worse. Read more »

Kenya: 'The Roof Does All the Work' - the Rise of Green Roofs in Nairobi

Planting vegetation on buildings can bring many perks for those that can afford them, but the environmental benefits should not be overstated. Read more »

Sudan: From Darfur to Gaza - Taking the Responsibility to Prevent Genocide Seriously

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: 'Patience Is Running Out' - Did Bonn Make Progress On Climate Finance?

An expert panel give their verdict on critical climate negotiations at the just-concluded conference in Bonn. Read more »

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 »

South Africa: 'A Mockery of Equity' - Experts Warn of Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Apartheid in South Africa

Without decisive policies, the uneven benefits of electric vehicles may make the world's most unequal country even more unequal. Read more »

Africa: 'Three Things We Need G7 to Do' - an Open Letter From 49 MPs Across Africa

A group of parliamentarians from 20 countries across Africa call for debt forgiveness, financial reform, and climate commitments to be met. Read more »

Africa: The G7 Is Right to Put Food At the Heart of Climate Plans. but How Matters

Policymaking that sidelines farmers in countries like Madagascar, where I am Agriculture Minister, can be as harmful as the climate crisis itself. Read more »

Africa: Funding Early Warning Systems Will Save Lives and Pay for Itself in No Time

Investing $1 billion in early warning systems would avoid $35 billion in losses each year. Read more »

South Sudan: What's Past Is Prologue? Identifying and Rupturing a History of Predatory Rule in South Sudan

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: 'We're Not Quite There Yet' - IPCC Chair Talks South Representation and More

In an exclusive interview, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change discusses the ways forward for the next set of reports. Read more »

Africa: Land Squeeze - the Hidden Battle for Africa's Soils

Land grabbing is not just back with a vengeance. It is taking on new guises such as carbon offsets, green hydrogen schemes, and other "green grabs". Read more »

Ethiopia: In Abiy's Ethiopia, 200 Journalists Have Been Arrested Since 2019

The Nobel laureate won plaudits early on for releasing imprisoned journalists. Today, his government depicts journalists as spies and traitors, and is accused of arresting,… Read more »

South Africa: In Search of a Polling Station Without a Long, Winding Queue in Mid-Afternoon Jozi

In Soweto, they voted early; by mid-afternoon, most polling stations were deserted. Not so elsewhere in southern Johannesburg where middle-class, middle-aged voters bet on empty… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: 'All It Takes Is One Corrupt Official' - Huge Monkey Seizure Reveals DRC Trafficking Ring

One of the biggest ever illegal animals shipments in Africa involved senior conservation officials, suggest documents seen by African Arguments. Read more »

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 »

Ethiopia: 'After the Dam, Nothing Is Good' - How Ethiopia's Mega Project Devastated Centuries of Survival Strategies

Until recently, indigenous groups in the Omo Valley planted crops, foraged, hunted, fished, herded animals, and shared food. Now they face starvation. Read more »

Africa: '2024 Is Our 1994!' - a South African Election Travelogue

Almost two-thirds of the current electorate could not have voted in the first all-race elections in 1994. After the apathy of the past 15 years, why does voting feel so important… Read more »

South Sudan: Overloaded? Hope and Scepticism Around the Tumaini Peace Initiative for South Sudan

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 »

Sudan: Violence Is a Symptom of a Profound Collective Failure

The ongoing conflict is an existential threat to the very idea of Sudan, not to be solved by negotiations featuring the usual suspects working on the old power-sharing formula. Read more »

South Africa: South Africa 2024 - What Are Parties Promising On Energy and Climate?

Some parties' manifestos fall shorter than others. Some fall so far short they would arguably take us backwards. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: What Are the South Africans Doing in Eastern DRC?

Unlike the SADC contingent that defeated the M23 back in 2013, the SAMIDRC force's tentative approach to the spreading conflict is raising questions about South Africa's real… Read more »

Mozambique: Nyusi's Dilemma Delivers an Unexpected Successor

Haunted by a corruption scandal, President Filipe Nyusi's search for an acceptable successor produces some unintended consequences. Read more »