Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision). The paper analyses a variety of the dominant explanations of major international actors and donors, showing how these...

Conceptualising climate compatible development / Fiona Nunan -- Reconsidering climate compatible development as a new development landscape in Southern Africa / Lindsay C. Stringer, Susannah M. Sallu, Andrew J. Dougill, Benjamin Wood and Lisa Ficklin -- Closing the knowledge gaps on gender and...

This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa's economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, as we illustrate using growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We...