Book review – An action page-turner with academic precision
Hitmen for hire: Exposing South Africa’s underworld, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2017 In September...
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Making today’s African girl into tomorrow’s African leader – Book review
African Girl, African Woman – How agile, empowered and tech-savvy females will transform the...
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Shaping Africa’s Post-Covid Recovery
Book Review Shaping Africa’s Post-Covid Recovery Edited by Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov and...
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A grim future awaits states who do not procure energy
Book review The Political Economy of Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Andrew Emmanuel Okem...
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Outbreaks, epidemics and the health of Africa
Book review Epidemics and the Health of African Nations published by the Mapungubwe Institute for...
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Buried deep within our hearts and never forgotten
Book review Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and Viviana Mazza; published...
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National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa
Liberation movements begin as war machines animated by the desire for justice and, if successful, end up as governments clinging on to power…
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Book review
The Political Economy of Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Edited by Andrew Emmanuel Okem and Lucky E Asuelime. Routledge, London and New York; 2018
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Senility, a doting mad wife and an indulgence in spies
Book review: In the Jaws of the Crocodile: Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Rise to Power in Zimbabwe. By Ray...
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A salutary lesson in historical scholarship
Book review By Yunus Momoniat Mahmood Mamdani’s seminal book, published in 1996, represented an...
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What are cartoons meant to do?
Book review Taking African Cartoons Seriously: Politics, Satire, and Culture Edited by Peter Limb...
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Betraying Africa’s young and desperate
Book review The Outcast Majority: War, Development, and Youth in Africa by Marc Sommers,...
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