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Fascinating series of articles on peace, police, and politics in Mogadishu. How the British Empire is like contemporary DRC: a massive territory ruled by a tiny coterie of administrators who project...
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Recently acquired books
Along the lines of Adam Elkus’ shared reading lists, here’s what I’ve picked up recently, along with their Amazon summaries: Catherine Boone, Political Topographies of the African State. “Examines...
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Rift Valley Institute courses still accepting applications
The Rift Valley Institute’s summer courses on the Horn of Africa, the Sudans, and the Great Lakes region are starting very soon, but according to their Twitter feed applications are still being...
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2015 Rift Valley Institute courses
The Rift Valley Institute’s summer courses are now accepting applications. As always, these are highly recommended. (Information en français est disponible ici.) Horn of Africa: Nairobi, June 13 –...
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Somali piracy as non-state governance
Chris Blattman links to a fascinating new article by Anja Shortland and Federico Varese on the governance structures of Somali pirates. Key points: This article argues that gangs, clans, mafias and...
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Thought for the day (via Tumblr) Somalia is going through a construction boom as Mogadishu slowly stabilizes. However, life appears to be getting worse for Somali-Kenyans, who must often substitute...
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Fantastic Port Harcourt photography from Enefaa Thomas GiveDirectly is launching a new basic income program in Kenya. They’ll match the first US$10 million of donations, and (on my grad student...
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(Image source) Why are so many African flags red, yellow and green? It may be connected to Ethiopia’s successful resistance to colonialism (although Ken Opalo raises other posibilities in the...
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Loved this series of 1000 portraits from Sudan The AU plans to introduce a single passport, which will let African citizens travel around the continent without visas. Then everyone can pop over to...
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Summer conference highlights
The summer’s off to a good start with a lot of travel and two excellent conferences so far. Belinda Archibong. “Where Local Kings Rule: Long-Term Impacts of Precolonial Institutions and Geography on...
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This and other interesting graphs to be found at the new African Visual Data site There’s been some excellent analysis of the crisis in South Sudan recently, including Aly Verjee‘s analysis of the...
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“The International Community” (via Ken Opalo) World Politics Review has a series of ten articles covering the rise of protest movements across Africa. Another important source of information about...
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Celebrating the work of James Barnor, one of the first photographers to work with color film in Ghana There’s a lot going on in the DRC right now. The US hedge fund Och-Ziff was fined for US$100...
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Weekly links
Precolonial population distribution has remained remarkably stable. Map via Africa Visual Data Statebuilding in the news: Alex de Waal argues that bankrupting kleptocratic governments like that of...
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The Mail & Guardian‘s editorial cartoonist has been on point about Zuma lately Zimbabwe is descending deeper into economic crisis as shortage of dollars have forced the reintroduction of a...
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A favorite shot from fabric shopping in Ouaga last weekend The Africa Research Institute has a very useful interactive feature on African elections in 2017. Here are five major questions facing the...
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One of a wonderful series of portraits from Ghana’s first female professional photographer Every headline ought to be about the horrific scale of the food crises in South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria....
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Edible art from 57 Chocolate in Ghana South Sudan’s leaders are being blamed for deliberately orchestrating the country’s famine. Other African countries affected by famine, including Nigeria and...
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Lately I’ve been sending out link-roundups via my monthly Africa Update newsletter. I thought I’d have a go at cross-posting them here as well. Here’s what I found interesting in July. West Africa:...
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Here’s the latest cross-posting from my Africa Update newsletter! We’ve got the paradox of powdered milk in cattle-loving Somalia, the national airline of Chad, challenges of urban planning in Kenya,...
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