#BookClub: Arbitrary States & Museveni’s Uganda – interview and blog!
As part of DiA's popular #BookClub feature, we invited Rebecca Tapscott to discuss her brilliant new book, Arbitrary States, with Gerald Bareebe....
#BookClub: Contesting Sovereignty in Africa and the Global South
Joel Ng -
The year 2016 saw populism go mainstream in the West, when the phenomena of Brexit and Donald Trump’s US election sharpened the...
African Peace – Regional Norms from the OAU to the AU
The global order is constantly evolving, and more recent debates about the nature of this change have highlighted the ascendency of emerging...
#BookClub. What drives election rigging – and when citizens resist it?
In recent months it has felt like election rigging has run riot.
Citizens killed, beaten and intimidated and election...
#Book Club: Edward Clay Reviews Michela Wrong’s Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, by Michela Wrong, London, Fourth Estate, 1 April...
#BookClub: What Britain Did to Nigeria
Four months ago, Nigeria celebrated the 60th anniversary of independence from colonial rule. At that moment Nigeria reached “half-time” and has now...
#Book Club: Repression, Polarization, and the Arab Spring 10 Years On
In December 2010, protests that would serve as the catalyst for the Arab Spring uprisings began in Sidi Bou Zid, a small...
#BookClub: Power and the Presidency in Kenya
In the latest in our popular #BookClub feature, Anaïs Angelo reveals the most significant lessons of her fascinating new book Power and the Presidency:...
#BookClub: East Africa After Liberation
In the latest in our popular #BookClub feature, Jonathan Fisher reveals the most significant lessons of his important new book East Africa After Liberation. To...
#BookClub: The Crisis of Democracy in Zambia
In the latest in our popular #BookClub feature, Tinenenji Banda, Marja Hinfelaar, O'Brien Kaaba and Muna Ndulo use their important new book Democracy and Electoral Politics...
What next for UK-Africa relations after Brexit?