Book review By Yunus Momoniat Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal book, published in 1996, represented an important turning point in African Studies. In it, he challenged many beliefs long-held by Africanist scholars and made...
Good Govenance Africa
Ethnic conflict in the political marketplace
South Sudan: a brutal war The concerns of the political elite revolve around ‘political budgets’ and the price of loyalty When people organise to fight they often frame the reason, and whom they count as friends or...
How UNCTAD gets it wrong
UNCTAD’s claims that commodity producers in several African countries are deliberately misinvoicing exports to hide illegal capital flight are mostly based on faulty data In July 2016, the United Nations Conference on...
Extractive industries: Opportunity or threat?
In the face of increasing automation, Africa’s resource economies will not have the time to create an industrial middle class as developed nations did The effect of increasing mechanisation on the industrial sector has...
‘Foreigners’ in their own homeland?
Ivorians must decide whether a constitutional amendment is required to deal with ethnicity and citizenship In October 2016 Côte d’Ivoire will hold a referendum on constitutional reforms. While President Alassane...
Life beyond Mugabe?
Zimbabwe: splintering political parties Unhappiness between former liberation parties continues to bedevil Zimbabwean politics Zimbabwe has two main ethnic groups, the Shona and the Ndebele, as well as smaller groups...
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