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Jan 23, 2025 | 
africanarguments.org | Eliab Taye |Kris Berwouts |Richard Dowden
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 19, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Chidi Odinkalu |Chepkorir Sambu |Richard Dowden
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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Oct 8, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Raphael Mweninguwe |Daniel Waweru |Richard Dowden
Local participants working on a World Bank funded climate change adaptation project in Malawi say they have not been paid for up to a year, leading many to drop out. This has contributed to experts’ fears that adaptation programmes that are mismanaged and lack community ownership will lead to poor outcomes, leaving people vulnerable to climate impacts.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Tova Gaster |Richard Dowden
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) holds one of the richest hotspots for biodiversity in the world. Half of Africa’s tropical forests lie within its borders, which support thousands of unique species as well as millions of people. Fortunately, the government seems to recognise the importance of conserving its nature.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Richard Dowden
Saulos Klaus Chilima or SKC, the fallen vice president of Malawi stunned many when in 2020, he decided to form an electoral alliance with Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the country’s liberation and independence party. He had just contested in the 2019 general elections as a presidential candidate on an UTM Party ticket, a breakaway party of the then ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
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May 21, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Henning Melber |Richard Dowden
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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Apr 30, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Fran Witt |Grace Ronoh |Richard Dowden
“The current system needs more than just adjustment – it needs an overhaul. Africa must be at the centre of these reforms, but our criticisms have for too long fallen on deaf ears.” This was the shared opinion of the presidents of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia in their piece on how to make global finance work better, for The Economist in March.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Richard Dowden
Labour migration to the Middle East from East Africa and the Horn has grown considerably in recent years. In numerical terms, it exceeds Europe-bound movements but does not receive anything like the degree of attention or interest from policymakers. The real and potential rewards of this emergent migration system – for migrants, sending, and receiving societies are considerable. However, the risks, in terms of abuse and exploitation, are also very high.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Markus Virgil Hoehne |Richard Dowden
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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Dec 20, 2023 | 
africanarguments.org | Brian Mantlana |Richard Dowden
As the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events has risen sharply over the past decade, there has been growing recognition that taking actions to adapt to the impacts of climate change must be one of the core pillars of the global response to the crisis. At the COP28 climate talks that concluded in Dubai last week, adaptation was high on the agenda and one of the key outcomes was the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA).
