Africa Review 2/4
Here’s Africa Review of the past two weeks, March 20 – April 2..
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POLITICS AND CONFLICT
How Africa can avoid being caught in a new Cold War in the midst of US-China tensions. ICC arrest warrant for Putin is a king-size dilemma for South Africa.
This week, it was time for more US charm offensive to counter China’s influence in Africa. It’s the return of geopolitics.
European countries risk undermining their Africa strategies. The end of the France-Africa relationship?
The rights of LGBTQ+ people are contrary to the "virtues of African values”? So seems to think the AU’s African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Receptivity and reintegration of ex-Boko Haram associates in the Lake Chad Basin region.
Nigeria: The Labour Party and Peter Obi have filed a petition before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal challenging Bola Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election. How Nigeria’s politicians adapted vote-buying tactics amidst cash shortage, last February.
Protests in Kenya: anti-government demonstrators took to the streets against rising living costs. The AU has called for calm. But the protests have been intensified. Ruto is stroking a culture of war to deflect blame.
Senegal: Ousmane Sonko issued a two-month suspended sentence for libel. The protests flare-up and dozens are arrested. Supporters of Sonko have been demonstrating since mid-March.
On the recent controversies around Tunisia’s Saied: the AU must not allow Saied to harm African unity.
Dialogue as a conflict transformation tool in Cabo Delgado.
Togo sentences two journalists to 3 years for insulting authorities. Al Jazeera has released an investigative documentary on gold smuggling in Zimbabwe. The 1st episode has been viewed more than 3 million times.
On the assassination of Cloete Murray, South Africa’s liquidator of corruption-acquired assets, and his son.
ENVIRONMENT / AGRICULTURE
On war and water in the Horn. Kenya drought: millions of dollars used but no results for pastoralists.
Such a nice article: Donkeys were domesticated in the Horn of Africa.
Challenging times for Ghanaian farmers due to climate change. How to ease the burden of water scarcity on Nigeria’s coast.
Zimbabweans are turning to small grains to beat climate change.
The devastating effects of mining on two rivers in Ivory Coast and Mali.
OTHER
LGBTQ+ rights in Uganda: the new anti-LGBTQ+ law puts death penalty on the table. South Africans took to the streets to support the Ugandan LGBTQ+ community. The plague of evangelical Christianity and how it is fuelling homophobia. US Christian Right pours more than 50m dollars into Africa.
Digital xenophobia on the rise in South Africa.
Check this thorough investigative work by The Intercept journalists Neha Wadekar and Ryan Grim on abuse allegations faced by Bridge Academies in Kenya and Uganda.
On the need for South-centred theorisation in Development Studies.
A tragic twist for orphans of mass killings in Angola 1977.
The extraordinary benefits of a house made of mud, a traditional construction material in Africa. Architect Lesley Lokko: “It is our time”.
Hope in Tigray after two years of war.
Tsitsi Dangarembga writing about how writing against empire helps heal its enduring wounds. Akin Adesokan reflection on books that offer a long-historical perspective on African literature and history. The African Books Collective has prepared a 2022-2023 catalogue with reading suggestions.
Isaac Samuel for New Lines Magazine: When Africa discovered Europe.
Ethiopia’s piano queen. Africa’s week in pictures.
All for now. Until next Sunday.
Cat 🐕
