Africa at LSE

The latest expert analysis on African affairs, placing the continent at the heart of global debates

Latest posts

Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports

July 10th, 2019

Book Review – Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire

July 18th, 2019

Rwanda’s national development bank: (re-) financing industrial policy

July 17th, 2019

Ghana’s battle with illegal artisanal and small-scale mining

July 15th, 2019

Development

Ghana’s battle with illegal artisanal and small-scale mining

July 15th, 2019

Zimbabwe’s land reform and white farmer compensation

May 10th, 2019

International development has a race problem

March 21st, 2019

Conflict

CAR’s peace accords and rebel warlords

May 15th, 2019

Contesting compensation in Uganda’s Apaa land conflict

April 15th, 2019

Money guards and hospital hostages in the DRC

March 14th, 2019

Public Authority

Public Authority

Football as reconciliation in the aftermath of war

May 16th, 2019

The charcoal challenge in DRC’s Virunga

March 25th, 2019

Money guards and hospital hostages in the DRC

March 14th, 2019

African Elections

African Elections

How ‘citoyenneté’ reshaped the democratic space during Congo’s 2018 elections

June 4th, 2019

African Elections

Tshisekedi and Kabila struggle for power in the DRC

May 24th, 2019

African Elections

Ramaphosa’s choice for the declining ANC

May 17th, 2019

Book Reviews

Book Review – Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire

July 18th, 2019

Book Review – Liberia’s Women Veterans: War, Roles and Reintegration

June 21st, 2019

Book Review – First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War But Lost the Peace

June 13th, 2019

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