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African Arguments

Written by experts with an unrivalled knowledge of the continent, African Arguments is a series of concise, engaging books that address the key issues currently facing Africa. Topical and thought-provoking, accessible but in-depth, they provide essential reading for anyone interested in getting to the heart of both why contemporary Africa is the way it is and how it is changing.

African Arguments Online

African Arguments Online is a website managed by the Royal African Society, which hosts debates on the African Arguments series and other topical issues that affect Africa: africanarguments.org

Series editors

Richard Dowden, Royal African Society

Alex de Waal, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation

Alcinda Honwana, Open University

Managing editor

Stephanie Kitchen, International African Institute

Editorial board

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University

Tim Allen, London School of Economics and Political Science

Akwe Amosu, Open Society Institute

Breyten Breytenbach, Gore Institute

Peter da Costa, journalist and development specialist

William Gumede, journalist and author

Abdul Mohammed, InterAfrica Group

Robert Molteno, editor and publisher

Titles already published

Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power

Tim Allen, Trial Justice

Raymond W. Copson, The United States in Africa

Chris Alden, China in Africa

Tom Porteous, Britain in Africa

Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, Darfur: A New History of a Long War

Jonathan Glennie, The Trouble with Aid

Peter Uvin, Life after Violence: A Peoples Story of Burundi

Bronwen Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa

Camilla Toulmin, Climate Change in Africa

Orla Ryan, Chocolate Nations

Theodore Trefon, Congo Masquerade

Lonce Ndikumana and James Boyce, Africas Odious Debts

Mary Harper, Getting Somalia Wrong?

Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig, Africa and the War on Drugs

Alcinda Honwana, Youth and Revolution in Tunisia

Marc Epprecht, Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa

Lorenzo Cotula, The Great African Land Grab?

Michael Deibert, The Democratic Republic of Congo

Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly, Africa Uprising

Celeste Hicks, Africas New Oil

Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong

Theodore Trefon, Congos Environmental Paradox

Forthcoming titles

Louisa Lombard, State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

Keith Breckenridge, Mining, Power and Politics in South Africa: Rethinking the African Resource Curse

Odd-Helge Fjelstad, Wilson Prichard and Mick Moore, Taxing Africa

Kris Berwouts, War and Failed Peace in Eastern Congo

Published by Zed Books and the IAI with the support of the following organizations:

The principal aim of the International African Institute is to promote scholarly understanding of Africa, notably its changing societies, cultures and languages. Founded in 1926 and based in London, it supports a range of seminars and publications including the journal Africa .

www.internationalafricaninstitute.org

Now more than a hundred years old, the Royal African Society