Book review: Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state

Syerramia Willoughby, editor of the Africa at LSE blog, reviews Julia Gallagher’s recent book on Tony Blair’s passion for Africa, touching also on David Cameron’s impressive financial commitment to aid despite Britain’s debt

Land conflict mapping tools

Raphael Kerali talks to Africa at LSE Editor Syerramia Willoughby about research he conducted along with Julian Hopwood for the Justice and Security Research Programme among the Acholi people in the northern Uganda as they resettled in their respective ancestral lands following the end of the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency which took place from 1987-2006

Touched by the pain of the Ebola epidemic

Africa at LSE editor Syerramia Willoughby recounts how her distant sympathy for Ebola victims and their surviving families became a raw uncompromising and personal pain

Mahatma Gandhi and South Africa

Syerramia Willoughby describes how Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence evolved and influenced events in South Africa. Read more articles in the “Why India-Africa relations matter” blog series

Remembering sub-Saharan Africa’s first military coup d’état fifty years on

Syerramia Willoughby looks at the circumstances surrounding the first coup d’état and assassination on the African continent after independence

Social capital’s “vicious potential” revealed through Rwandan genocide

In this post, Syerramia Willoughby examines a recent research paper entitled Anti-Social Capital: A Profile of Rwandan Genocide Perpetrators’ Social Networks by LSE’s Dr Omar McDoom in which he explores the motivations of those Hutus who turned on their Tutsi neighbours during the Rwandan genocide in 1994

Bridging the gap of African leadership identity – not yet Uhuru

Syerramia Willoughby examines whether Africa’s shared valued system of ubuntu can propel a new wave of African thought and leadership

Land of conflict

Why are land rights a growing source of tension in Africa? Professor Catherine Boone explains the complexities and discusses her latest book, Property and Political Order: land rights and the structure of politics in Africa, with Syerramia Willoughby

Photoblog: The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World

In recent times, the growing economic relationship between India and African countries has been the subject of academic research and newspaper articles. Yet, as this collection of images courtesy of the New York Public Library shows, the relationship between these two entities has existed for centuries. Read more articles in the “Why India-Africa relations matter” blog series

Sporting reward proves a boon for development in Kenya’s Rift Valley

As the athletics competition at the 2012 Olympic Games begins, Syerramia Willoughby looks at how Kenya’s success in the sport has fuelled the economic success in Eldoret, a city in the country’s Rift Valley