Africa at LSE

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

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Environment

Diaspora bonds can help fill climate finance gaps in developing economies

January 18th, 2022

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Economics

Why colonial investments persist more in Francophone than Anglophone Africa

January 25th, 2022
Health

Three pillars to strengthening health systems in African countries

January 21st, 2022
Conflict

Intelligence failures are stunting Nigeria’s war on terror

January 20th, 2022

Recent

International Affairs

How Africa can promote the continental free movement of people

January 14th, 2022
Politics

What causes regime change in African autocracies?

January 13th, 2022
Conflict

Banditry’s impacts on women and children in Nigeria needs a policy response

January 10th, 2022

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Development

Business

Ethiopia’s development by dispossession prioritises capital over community

December 20th, 2021
Development

Can Uganda’s hydroelectric Karuma dam balance local displacement and promises of modernisation?

November 18th, 2021

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Development

Benin’s urban policies are deepening social inequalities

November 1st, 2021

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Politics

Politics

What causes regime change in African autocracies?

January 13th, 2022
Politics

The next DRC elections could weaponise ‘Congolité’ identity

December 29th, 2021
Politics

Is the Economic Freedom Fighters’ brand of populism transforming political discourse in South Africa?

December 23rd, 2021

Public Authority

Conflict

Land disputes in South Sudan continue to affect refugees and IDPs

December 16th, 2021
Conflict

Safety and protection in South Sudan have shifted away from government

November 26th, 2021
Development

What explains popular resistance to Ebola humanitarian responses in the DRC?

June 11th, 2021

COVID-19

COVID-19

The rich countries that developed Covax have actively undermined it

November 30th, 2021
COVID-19

Colonialism and foreign interventions have driven distrust during the pandemic in eastern DRC

September 8th, 2021
COVID-19

Le colonialisme et les interventions extérieures ont alimenté la méfiance pendant la pandémie dans l’est de la RDC

September 7th, 2021

African Elections

African Elections

Prospects for Guinean elections after the coup are uncertain

November 23rd, 2021
African Elections

Buhari and political turbulence on the route to Nigeria’s 2023 elections

October 14th, 2021

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African Elections

Information about service provision in Uganda is insufficient to affect voting behaviour

July 23rd, 2021

Economics

Economics

Why colonial investments persist more in Francophone than Anglophone Africa

January 25th, 2022
Economics

The European Union is undermining prospects for a free trade agreement with Africa

December 14th, 2021
Economics

The impact of COVID-19 on trade in Africa

December 3rd, 2021

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Book review – A House Without Windows

March 26th, 2021
Arts/Culture

Book review – Modernist Art in Ethiopia

December 6th, 2019

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Book Reviews

Book review – Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea

November 7th, 2019

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Translations

COVID-19

L’impact de COVID-19 sur le secteur éducatif à l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo

September 5th, 2021
COVID-19

Vivre la pandémie: Entre effroi et anxiété, un petit coin d’espoir

September 2nd, 2021
COVID-19

Cachez ce nez que je ne saurai voir! : Les nombreux visages du masque à l’est de la RDC

August 29th, 2021
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