AFRICA
Suggested reading & research
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- "Can Outside Powers Help the Sahel?" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 16, 2020
- "Africa: Hoping for a big dam deal" on David Lawler's "Axios World," Jan 13, 2020
- "Turkish troops in Libya's proxy war" on David Lawler's "Axios World," Jan 2, 2020
- "Africa news roundup: Cash, troops and corruption" on David Lawler's "Axios World," Jan 2, 2020
- "A tire titan in West Africa" on David Lawler's "Axios World," Jan 2, 2020
- "Algeria’s election is a vote few actually want" by Ishaan Tharoor with Ruby Mellen in "The Washington Post," Dec 11, 2019
- Russia’s Africa summit is the latest step in its resurgence as a global power on the continent" by Joe Penney on "QuartzAfrica," Octo 11, 2019
- "Mugabe’s Mixed Legacy" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Sept 6, 2019
- "Libya Gets Worse" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," July 9, 2019
- "Remaking Al-Bashir’s Regime In Sudan" by Abdulaziz Kilani on "Lobe Log Update," June 19, 2019
- "Sudan’s Suspension From The African Union" by Giorgio Cafiero on "Lobe Log Update," June 19, 2019
- "Sudan’s Transition Crisis: Role of Corruption" by Ambrose Carey on "Lobe Log," June 17, 2019
- "Foreign powers fuel Libya’s bloody stalemate" on David Lawler's "Axios World," June 10, 2019
- "South Africa's election: Five things we've learnt" by Pumza Fihlani on "BBC News," May 11, 2019
- "Is China the World’s Loan Shark?" by Deborah Brautigam in "The New York Times," April 26, 2019
- "Is there a tension between democracy and economic development in Africa?" by Ernest Aryeetey on "Brookings," March 11, 2019
- "African retail banking’s next growth frontier" by Mutsa Chironga, Luis Cunha, Hilary De Grandis, & Mayowa Kuyoro on "McKinsey," Feb 2018
- "11 Facts about HIV in Africa" on "DoSomething.org" [undated, c. 2014]
- "What China Wants From Africa? Everything" by Panos Mourdoukoutas on "Forbes," May 4, 2019
- "America Is Right to Reduce Its Troops in Africa" by Ibrahim Anoba on "The National Interest," March 27, 2019
- "The U.S. could end up paying dearly for Trump’s disregard for Africa" by Mark Porubcansky on "MinnPost," March 4, 2019
- "Africa will have some of the world’s fastest-growing economies in 2019—and a looming debt crisis" by Yinka Adegoke on "Quartz Africa," Jan 13, 2019
- "The 3 Reasons Why Chinese Invest in Africa" by J.B. Maverick on "Investopedia," Oct 14, 2018
- "Africa's Extremist 'Powder Keg'" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," April 29, 2019
- "Is Sudan a new regional battleground?" by Jonathan Marcus on "BBC News," May 2, 2019
- "What I Found in Africa," an essay by Ed Knox about his time (early 1990s) in the Ivory Coast [undated]
- "8 ways climate change is already affecting Africa" on "350Africa.org," Dec 12, 2014
- "'Neighbourhoods turning into battlefields' in Libyan capital" on "Al Jazeera," April 25, 2019
- "Sudan's military meets protesters to discuss transfer of power" on "Al Jazeera," April 25, 2019
- "Africa’s Only Hope Is Industrialization" by Noah Smith in "BloombergOpinion," April 23, 2019
- "Letter from Africa: The art of drawing your address in The Gambia" by Ade Daramy on "BBC News," April 22, 2019
- "Kenyans Say Chinese Investment Brings Racism and Discrimination" by Joseph Goldstein in "The New York Times," Oct 15, 2018
- "'China has conquered Kenya': Inside Beijing's new strategy to win African hearts and minds" by Jonathan Kaiman in "The Los Angeles Times," Aug 7, 2017
- "North Africa: Checking in on the revolutions" on "Axios World" by David Lawler, April 15, 2019
- "Sudan coup: Are military takeovers on the rise in Africa?" by Christopher Giles on "BBC News," April 11, 2019
- "The World Is Racing for Africa" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," March 8, 2019
- "The Congo’s chaotic election throws the future of cobalt in doubt" by Sagatom Saha & David Livingston "Axios," Feb 5, 2019
- "Russia Turns to Africa" from "Financial Times" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 22, 2019
- "The African Toll of the Great War, in Song and Shadows" by Jason Farago in "The New York Times," Dec 6, 2018
- "Is China burdening Africa with debt?" by Reality Check team on "BBC News," Nov 5, 2018
- "Africa: Europe a step behind China on engagement" by David Lawler on "Axios World," Aug 30, 2018
- "Africa: Europe a step behind China on engagement" by David Lawler on "Axios World," Aug 30, 2018
- "What I Found in Africa," an essay by Ed Knox about his time (early 1990s) in the Ivory Coast [undated]
- "Somalia and the Gulf Crisis" by International Crisis Group on "Lobe Log," June 5, 2018
- "Turkey’s pivot to Africa" by Gonul Tol on "Middle East Institute: Monday Briefing," March 5, 2018
- "Gulf Crisis Expands Into The Horn Of Africa" by James M. Dorsey on "Lobe Log," Jan 3, 2018
- "The Fight for Africa: The New Focus of the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry" by Gerald Feierstein & Craig Greathead in Middle East Institute's "Policy Focus 2017-2," Sept 2017
- "Out of Africa" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," April 13, 2016
- "The Chinese Invade Africa" by Ian Johnson in "The New York Review of Books," Sept 25, 2014 (For a printable PDF file , click here.)
- "Treasure-Laden Shipwreck Found off African Coast" by Donna Bryson on "National Geographic News," May 2, 2008
- Atkinson, Rick, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (The Liberation Trilogy, Volume I), 2002
- Brautigam, Deborah, The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, 2010
- Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 1899
- Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, 1998
- Robinson, Ronald; Gallagher, John & Denny, Alice (Editors), Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism, 2015
- "Where in the World the U.S. Military Is Combatting Terrorism" from "Smithsonian Magazine," Jan 2019
- "True Size of Africa" by Kai Krause
- Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure (2017) - a two-part BBC series about Alice Morrison's journey along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu