Aly Verjee

Jan 9, 2025 | africanarguments.org | Aly Verjee

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.

Sep 13, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Mohammed Taoheed |Aly Verjee

Christy’s life would have ended several years ago. Her skins would have been removed, exported, and passed off as an ingredient to be used in traditional Chinese medicine. She is still alive today, all thanks to the Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria or PCGN, a nonprofit organisation based in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria.

Jul 8, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Aly Verjee

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.

May 24, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Hala Al-Karib |Aly Verjee

Five years ago, Sudan was a tale of optimism, democratic transition and stability. Today, the UN secretary-general describes it as a “humanitarian travesty”, even as the UN’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, warns of the risk of genocide in Darfur. We are witnessing a campaign of atrocities and bloodbaths, hunger and disease. Millions of Sudanese people fleeing their homes, hunted by armed militia and aerial bombardments, stalked by poverty and a campaign of deliberate starvation.

Nov 29, 2023 | africanarguments.org | Mary Serumaga |Kris Berwouts |On Darfur |Aly Verjee

“Zionism will fail, the experiment to which the noble Earl referred will fail, the harm done by dumping down an alien population upon an Arab country – Arab all around in the hinterland – may never be remedied…what we have done is, by concessions, not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, to start a running sore in the East, and no one can tell how far that sore will extend.”– British Government, Hansard, House of Lords, 21 June 1922, p.