September 09, 2023
Algeria: A Mine in the Middle of Paradise
The Tebboune government is brutally suppressing any protest against a lead-and-zinc mine being built in a RAMSAR protected area. Read more »
September 07, 2023
Tanzania: January Makamba and Tanzania's Return From Self-Isolation
What does January Makamba's appointment to Tanzania's foreign docket add to President Hassan's expanding diplomatic chessboard? Read more »
September 06, 2023
Africa: Embracing Africa's Green Legacy - a Letter to My Future Self
A leader in the Africa Youth Climate Assembly envisions an African climate future. Read more »
Africa: Letter to Future Self - 'The Spirit of Community Action Was the Beating Heart of Our Progress'
Looking ahead to a future free of fossil fuels, powered by the relentless sun, wind and other renewables. Read more »
September 04, 2023
Somalia: State-Building As the Elite's Perverse Incentive
Facing growing allegations of corruption and nepotism, can the Hassan Sheikh administration win the war against Al Shabaab? Read more »
August 31, 2023
Africa: Brics and Africa - New Beginning or False Dawn?
With 40 countries on the waiting list, Egypt and Ethiopia's entry into BRICS marks another notch for Beijing's geopolitical expansion. Read more »
Gabon: Adieu to a Post-Colonial Bully?
The coup in Libreville is less a marker of democratic erosion than a signal of the revolt against France's neocolonial domination. Read more »
Somalia: Understanding the Local Context Is Key to Addressing Fragility in Somalia
No longer a vision of the failed state of a decade ago, for Somalia the journey from fragility to sustainability is long, tough and ongoing. Read more »
August 30, 2023
Africa: View(s) From Africa - What's At Stake At Africa Climate Week?
We asked a panel of policy experts about their hopes, fears, and expectations from the Africa Climate Summit and Week. Read more »
August 29, 2023
Sudan: Sudan's Crisis - Can Cash Transfers Prevent Starvation and State Collapse?
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 »
August 24, 2023
Africa: A Drug Development Model for the Diseases the World Forgot
Eschewing profit, over the past 20 years researchers at the Deadly and Neglected Diseases Initiative have developed a dozen drugs accessible to the world's most forgotten patients. Read more »
East Africa: Eating Fish From Lake Victoria 'Rare and Expensive' Amid Climate Crisis
90% of people along the lake's shores in Tanzania say they ate fish four times per month ten years ago, compared to just 4% today. Read more »
August 23, 2023
Africa: The Africa Climate Summit Must Dare Speak the Unspeakable
Fossil fuels, by far the biggest source of emissions, have brought much harm and few benefits to Africa. Yet climate agreements barely mention them. Read more »
Africa: Big Conservation NGOs Are Majority Governed By Finance Figures
Conservationists express alarm that finance execs dominate the boards of four powerful NGOs, especially as controversial carbon markets skyrocket. Read more »
August 22, 2023
Africa: The Climate Future Is Here, and It Looks Like This Proud Commune in South Africa
With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future. Read more »
August 21, 2023
Africa: Decolonising African Cinema in the Time of Netflix
90% of Africa's cultural legacy resides outside the continent; audiovisual restitution is a battle for memory as urgent as artefact restitution. Read more »
Africa: Africa Climate Summit - Kenya's Green Growth Pitch Sparks Justice Concerns
Outcry over McKinsey's role and unease with Ruto's focus on finance raises questions as to whether the summit will truly be "by Africans for Africans". Read more »
August 20, 2023
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 »
August 18, 2023
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 »
August 17, 2023
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 »
August 16, 2023
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 »
August 15, 2023
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 »
August 11, 2023
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 »
August 09, 2023
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 »