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Nov 30, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | African Arguments |Malte Liewerscheidt |Magnus Taylor
Last updated: 3 December 2024How to use the mapThis elections map shows you all the upcoming votes. Move around and click to find out more. The colour tells you approximately when the election is:Red – This monthOrange – Next monthYellow – In two monthsGreen – Beyond thatThe icon tells you who is up for election:Upcoming Africa elections: A listHere are the upcoming elections in list form. The exact dates are liable to change.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | African Arguments |Magnus Taylor
Last updated: 9 August 2024How to use the mapThis elections map shows you all the upcoming votes. Move around and click to find out more. The colour tells you approximately when the election is:Red – This monthOrange – Next monthYellow – In two monthsGreen – Beyond thatThe icon tells you who is up for election:Upcoming Africa elections: A listHere are the upcoming elections in list form. The exact dates are liable to change.
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May 29, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Jaclynn Ashly |Abdullahi Abubakar |Al Shabaab |Magnus Taylor
Over thousands of seasons across hundreds of years, eight distinct peoples honed their strategies for surviving in the Lower Omo Valley. The dry and often unforgiving conditions in this semi-arid region of southwest Ethiopia would be inhospitable for most, but these groups learnt to adapt to unpredictable rainfall and the ebbs and flows of the Omo River. These valuable lessons were perfected and passed down through countless generations.
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May 7, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Jennifer Kwao |Magnus Taylor
By the latest count, devastating torrential rains, floods and landslides in Kenya have killed at least 228 people since March and displaced nearly 200,000 people. The government, which has been accused of being slow to act, has ordered people living near 178 dams and reservoirs to evacuate as heavy rains are predicted to continue and possibly worsen into May.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Magnus Taylor |Matthew Herbert
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.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Magnus Taylor
How are policies governing human movement between Europe and Africa formulated? Political elites in both continents like to refer to migration diplomacy involving the EU and African countries as “cooperation” based on partnerships between equals. Critics refer to it as “externalization” – a process of domination in which Europe’s migration controls (and priorities) are foisted upon the Global South.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Andrew Mambondiyani |Magnus Taylor
Wonder Mushove stared blankly at plumes of red dust billowing into the sky as more than 30 trucks carrying loads of lithium ore rumbled past his newly-built house in Buhera, in eastern Zimbabwe. The trucks drive by Mukwasi village on the dirt road linking the Chinese-owned Sabi Star lithium mine to the tarred highway. They travel through the border town of Mutare to the port of Beira in neighbouring Mozambique.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Andrea Behrends |Have Morten Jerven |Magnus Taylor |Remadji Hoinathy
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.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
africanarguments.org | Olivia Rumble |Afyare Abdi Elmi |Magnus Taylor
The COP28 climate talks in Dubai will see the first ever Global Stocktake. This five-yearly exercise could galvanise action or it could prompt mere empty promises. Olivia Rumble, a climate change policy and legal specialist and a Director at Climate Legal, spoke to our climate editor James Wan about what the Global Stocktake might mean for Africa, the points of contention, and what might emerge from the negotiations.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
africanarguments.org | Magnus Taylor |Njenga Kahiro
Those of us working in the environment and climate space sit with bated breath as COP28 approaches. Will we see concrete action, or will world leaders continue to go round in circles? Either way, this year Africa will go the global climate talks with some united demands. The inaugural Africa Climate Summit, hosted by Kenya in September, shone a spotlight on the continent likely to end up most impacted by climate change.
