African Arguments is a pan-African platform for news, analysis and opinion. We seek to analyse issues facing the continent, and amplify a diversity of voices. The roots of the project are in the African Arguments book series, published since 2005.

We cover topics related to politics, economics, gender, the environment, culture, social affairs, and more. We welcome work of contemporary relevance connected to ongoing research on and from the continent.

African Arguments provides a crucial and unique platform for predominantly African writers to reach an African, and international, audience. A majority of our articles are by authors of African descent, as are the majority of our readers.

We publish original and critical analysis and insight on contemporary affairs in Africa that can be understood by an international audience.

African Arguments is an editorially-independent platform hosted by the Royal African Society (RAS) and the International Africa Institute (IAI).