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Desired Articles:
If you are interested in writing any of the following articles please send a short pitch to James Schneider via editor@thinkafricapress.com
North
* Racism in North Africa
* Analysis of European Neighbourhood Policy review
* Historical, ethnic, social and cultural divisions within Libya
* Tripolitania vs Cyrenaica?
* Who are the National Transitional Council?
* Profile of Amr Moussa
* Analysis of the new power formations in Tunisia and Egypt
East
* Refugees on the Somali/Kenyan border
* Sharp rise in charcoal prices in Somaliland
* Rupu, Kenya's answer to Groupon
* BXM disease destroying Uganda's banana crop
* Coordinated surveillance techniques used to counter Somali pirates
* Update on the North-South separation negotiations
* The privitization of Mobassa port
* Draught and possible crop failures in East Africa
* The end of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia
* Besigye's "bush war" threat
* Bashir's promise to not run again in 2015
* North Sudan regime analysis
South
* Health of former South African miners
* Rio Tinto's attempt to buy Mozambique's Riversdale Mining
* Essar Group's purchase of Zisco steel
* Enormously increased Namibian development budget
* MDC funding
* Arrest of Elton Mangoma, MDC Energy Minister
* Ban on the MDC holding public meetings
* Zimplats and Nestle Zimbabwe forced nationalisations
Central
* Biya banning twitter in the election run up
* Analysis of DRC coup attempt
* Conviction of Lt Col Mutware
West
* History - the Walls of Benin
* American warnings of a terrorist attack in Mali
* Profile of Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man
* Violence student protests in Burkina Faso
* Obasanjo's four goal for higher eduction
* The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria's code of conduct
* Cooperative cocoa production in Sao Tome and Principe
* Analysis of fighting in the Ivory Coast
* Nigerian campaign trail
* Valuation of the Naira
* Nigerian minimum wage
* Presidential appointments to the Ghanaian petroleum board
No Specific Region
* Series of articles on different African pre-colonial histories (e.g. Kingdom of Benin)
* American hunters threatening African Lions
* Ordinary and systemic risk management in African banks
* Regime analyis (e.g. CAR, Angola)
* Growing Air travel
* Vanity Arenas - what happens when stadia are built and never properly used?
* Live labour disputes
* Reduced post-crisis aid
* China's increasingly governmental role
* Drug addiction
* Non-patented drugs
* Differing tactics of oppression by dictators when faces concerted opposition
* Volatile oil prices
* Analysis of arms flows
* Examples of misused aid money
* Large scale foreign agricultural land purchases
* Food price inflation/ food insecurity
* Pensions
* Youth unemployment
* 2nd tier commodity prices
* International tax justice and aid
Books for Review
* Africa's Development Impasse
* The Challenge for Africa
* The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
* The Masque of Africa
* Challenge of Culture in Africa: From Restoration to Integration
* The Roots Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Comprehensive Peace or Temporary Truce?
* Land, Governance, Conflict and the Nuba of Sudan