Counterpoints
ARI recently launched COUNTERPOINTS, a new series which aims to present critical accounts of defining ideas in and about Africa.
Why Africa can make it big in agriculture
8th July 2010Self-sufficiency in food production is the new mantra of donors and policymakers in Africa. But farmers, large and small, can be much more ambitious. Agriculture is the continent’s most neglected – and important – potential competit...
How intellectuals made history in Zimbabwe
1st July 2010The history of Zimbabwe has been revised in the service of the governing ZANU-PF party. A ‘patriotic’ version of history, disseminated by public intellectuals and state media, has distorted legitimate grievances. Critics of patriotic hist...
Africa through my television
7th July 2010The BBC’s three-part series Welcome to Lagos was widely praised, and criticised. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka castigated the “colonialist idea of the noble savage which motivated the programme”. The stories collected on a rubbish dum...
