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The US has about 40 centres that focus on African studies. Africa has only three looking the other way.
Nigeria-South Africa bi-national commission is a laudable initiative but missing the space cooperation element.
Bolder action is needed if the African Union and the European Union are to find common ground on migration.
Over two millennia, Swahili has built bridges among people across Africa and into the diaspora.
The persistent power inequalities between Africa and Europe do not bode well for supposed change. This is why the latest summit is important.
The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Fisheries agreements favour the European Union and don’t do enough to protect African interests.
Despite the criticisms the African Union has faced over the last two decades, it is far from being a docile follower of the orders of its member states.
African countries are struggling to implement the African Union’s protocol on free movement four years after its ratification.
Successive regimes in Guinea have used mining to maintain the status quo.
Africa can make important contributions to the issues on the agenda: defending against authoritarianism; fighting corruption; and respect for human rights.
Despite the recognition of risk, it’s clear that the scope and severity of the Ethiopian crisis has caught many by surprise.
Ghanaian postcolonial intellectuals viewed terms such as development, neo-colonialism, self-reliance, and indigeneity as central to discussions of global inequalities.
The WHO estimates that only about 15% to 25% of those in need of assistive technology products in Africa have access to them.
The AU’s choice of Olusegun Obasanjo as chief mediator raises even more questions about its partiality in Ethiopian conflict.
For Hissene Habre’s victims, the clock is ticking –many elderly ones have already died and will never see the compensation they were owed.
Any recognition of the coup could incentivise future ones. Yet Alpha Condé can’t simply be restored to office, sweeping under the carpet the dubious basis on which he has retained power.
Chad’s political institutions are corroded by corrupt politics to a degree that make true political reforms highly unlikely.
The court has lived up to its promise in most cases, issuing some progressive and ground-breaking decisions and remedies.
Top contributors
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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Director & SARChI Research Chair: Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region, University of Pretoria
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Programme manager of the Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
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Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor International Law, Roskilde University
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Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
