Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African ...

The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Rural violence is a huge problem in South Africa that deserves a strong response. But white people are not the only ...

Two of the most commonly accepted theories for the origin of money are the commodity theory and the chartalist theory. Both ...