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African Argumentsby Frederich Kirsten and Mduduzi Biyase1 Sept 2026
Why Lesotho’s remittance ‘safety net’ was never really its own, and why it is failing again in 2026 Lesotho is two years into a national state of disaster: US tariffs have gutted its garment...
African Argumentsby Tsion Gurmu - Nekessa Opoti - Jason Mosebach31 Aug 2026
No Place to Call Home: Increasing Homophobic & Transphobic Laws in the U.S. & Africa A network of Christian evangelical organizations has spent nearly two decades and tens of millions of dollars...
African Argumentsby Hassan Ali Sanhori31 Aug 2026
Beyond Projects: Rethinking Agricultural Investment for Sudan’s Post-War Recovery This essay concludes a three-part series by the author on agriculture in Sudan.
African Argumentsby Bukola Oladunjoye28 Aug 2026
Living and Losing the ECOWAS Dream: Borders, Belonging, and Betrayal As I entered Benin, I waited for the air to change.
African Argumentsby Gedeon Baleke28 Aug 2026
Africa’s Pension Funds Are Already Allowed to Invest at Home. They Don’t. Reformers keep asking governments to raise the ceilings on where domestic institutional capital can go.
African Argumentsby Hezron Ochiel28 Aug 2026
When AI Explains African Crises, Local Knowledge Is Barely Visible Ask any AI tool about the humanitarian situation in Africa, and you will get all sorts of answers in seconds.
African Argumentsby Oluwasemilore Alabi28 Aug 2026
God Forbid a Pan-Africa: Pan-Africanism’s Non-Works God forbid a Pan-Africa. Pan-Africanism is the belief that all Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora, are united in solidarity and...
African Argumentsby Mohamed Sheikh Nor28 Aug 2026
Somalia Pushes Ahead with Controversial Regional Elections Despite Opponent Boycott. Somalia’s transition to one-person,one-vote elections is increasingly becoming a struggle not only over...
African Argumentsby Abdurahman Nur26 Aug 2026
How Las Anod Changed Somaliland’s Case for Recognition Somaliland has spent three decades asking the world to trust a specific story about itself: a peaceful, democratic state exercising real...
African Argumentsby Krishna Kumar24 Aug 2026
500,000 children are born with congenital heart disease in Africa. Where are the hospitals to treat them?
African Argumentsby Terje Osmundsen21 Aug 2026
Population Density: A Missing Factor in Development — and Why This Is Africa’s Moment Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption...
African Argumentsby Ahmed Ismat19 Aug 2026
Sudan: The Unfortunate Alliance On Foreign Interest, the Ideal Militia, and What a Coloniser Prays He Leaves Behind My grandmother never said displacement.
African Argumentsby Chhai Bunsonareach19 Aug 2026
Violence, Profit, and the Economy Sustaining Eastern Congo’s Endless War At a checkpoint between Miba and the Kachanga hill in Fizi territory, soldiers of the Congolese army wave through bicycles...
African Argumentsby Ezzat Khairi18 Aug 2026
Sudan: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again.
African Argumentsby Namonje Izukanji Namukonda18 Aug 2026
Africa’s Youth Employment Crisis Has a Curriculum Problem When I worked for The Harvest Fund, I sat across from women-farmers who had just completed training in milling, business development, food...
African Argumentsby Seydou Ouattara17 Aug 2026
The Coup Costs More Than the Corruption It Claims to Fix Since 2020, soldiers have seized power in Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso (twice), Niger, and Gabon.
African Argumentsby Wondwossen Mezlekia14 Aug 2026
Ethiopia Counts Coffee at the Wrong End On July 7, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told Parliament that Ethiopia had earned a record $3.1 billion from coffee exports.
African Argumentsby Joseph Kayira14 Aug 2026
Malawi’s economic crisis: Can recovery begin? Almost nine months after Malawian President Peter Mutharika returned to power, his administration finds itself grappling with a severe and protracted...
African Argumentsby Frenny Jowi14 Aug 2026
Tanzania’s VAT Refund Revolution: The Quiet Reform That Could Unlock Billions in Private Investment When governments unveil annual budgets, headlines focus on the big numbers: spending, growth and...
African Argumentsby Wanjiku Wanjohi13 Aug 2026
The Beijing of It All: Africa’s Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa’s development landscape continued to be shaped...
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