In the News: “Modern” Africa
“How Africa’s New Urban Centers are Shifting Its Old Colonial Boundaries”
In The Atlantic, Howard W. French explores the expansion of Lagos, Nigeria, toward Accra, Ghana, all the way to […]
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In the News: Combating Poverty and Hunger
Two articles in The Guardian this week focused on poverty and hunger in Africa and ways that African leaders should combat them. Two complementary articles push for understanding root causes […]
In the News: Land Reform in South Africa
“Land Reform in South Africa: Seeds of Change”
The Economist reports here that 50 percent of land reform projects in South Africa have failed, despite […]
In the News: More News from Egypt
Continued analysis of Egyptian events:
“Shooting the Protesters”
By S.B. for The Economist
“Analysis: What Does the AU Gain From Suspending Egypt?”
By Khadija Patel for the Daily […]
In the News: The political thought of Nelson Mandela
“Nelson Mandela is around like never before”
In this article originally posted in Economics and Politics Monthly (and reposted by Africa is a Country), Premesh Lalu places Nelson Mandela’s intellectual […]