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"Everybody knows the solution in Somalia is political not military. Even if there is a military victory in Somalia, it will not be sustainable without a political solution" says Prof. Mamdani during an interview with The Independent. This interview featured in Pambazuka News, Issue 583. Click here for the full interview.

Conference Concept Note:

Are there competing visions for a post-Cold War Africa?  And, indeed, competing institutions and competing powers that seek to put those competing visions in place?  

There is new urgency to these questions, as a string of internal crises has given rise to an array of African and external interventions in places as far apart as Libya and Ivory Coast, Darfur, South Sudan, and Kenya's Rift Valley, and Northern Uganda and Somalia.