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African political economy, foreign affairs, and general commentary.
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On the escalation of war in Ethiopia (opens the original)
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Thank you for being a regular reader of An Africanist Perspective. If you haven’t done so yet, please hit subscribe to receive timely updates on new posts along with over 36,000 other subscribers. New regular content is free. Book reviews and the archives are gated.Subscribe nowI: On Ethiopia’s wars of choice, motivated by historical grievances and elite hubris<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https:
The things we project onto maps (opens the original)
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Thank you for being a regular reader of An Africanist Perspective. If you haven’t done so yet, please hit subscribe to receive timely updates on new posts along with over 36,000 other subscribers. New regular content is free. Book reviews and the archives are gated.Subscribe nowI: Maps are more than just projections on paperA perennial theme on this blog is that ideas matter. Ideas define our mental models of how the world works, our perceptions of the feasible set
Book Review 4/26: A Man of the World: Tom Mboya, the Cold War and Decolonization in Kenya (by Daniel Branch) (opens the original)
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Thank you for being a regular reader of An Africanist Perspective. If you haven’t done so yet, please hit subscribe to receive timely updates on new posts along with over 36,000 other subscribers. New regular content is free. Book reviews and the archives are gated.Subscribe now<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rJay!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
The end of “post-apartheid South Africa” and the birth of normal and better politics (opens the original)
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Book Review (3/26): The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise (by Pritish Behuria) (opens the original)
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