More praise for Israel in Africa
‘This captivating book tells the important, but still misunderstood, story of Israel’s involvement in Africa over the last decades. From defence and the extractive industries to migration, as well as the way in which the diplomatic jostling over Palestine and the ubiquitous rivalry with Iran play out on the continent, Israel in Africa’s insights deserve a broad readership.’
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of Oxford
‘The story of Israel’s new alliances on the African continent is largely untold. Gidron does us a service by making them the subject of his book. Israel in Africa takes its place in a new wave of indispensable scholarship appraising the fast-changing place of African states in international relations.’
Jonny Steinberg, Oxford University
African Arguments
Written by experts with an unrivalled knowledge of the continent, African Arguments is a series of concise, engaging books that address the key issues currently facing Africa. Topical and thought-provoking, accessible but in-depth, they provide essential reading for anyone interested in getting to the heart of both why contemporary Africa is the way it is and how it is changing.
African Arguments Online
African Arguments Online is a website managed by the Royal African Society, which hosts debates on the African Arguments series and other topical issues that affect Africa: http://africanarguments.org
Series editors
Adam Branch, University of Cambridge
Alex de Waal, World Peace Foundation
Richard Dowden, journalist and author
Alcinda Honwana, Open University
Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas
Carlos Oya, SOAS, University of London
Managing editor
Stephanie Kitchen, International African Institute
Titles already published
Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power
Tim Allen, Trial Justice
Raymond W. Copson, The United States in Africa
Chris Alden, China in Africa
Tom Porteous, Britain in Africa
Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, Darfur: A New History of a Long War
Jonathan Glennie, The Trouble with Aid
Peter Uvin, Life after Violence: A People’s Story of Burundi
Bronwen Manby, Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
Camilla Toulmin, Climate Change in Africa
Orla Ryan, Chocolate Nations
Theodore Trefon, Congo Masquerade
Léonce Ndikumana and James Boyce, Africa’s Odious Debts
Mary Harper, Getting Somalia Wrong?
Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig, Africa and the War on Drugs
Alcinda Honwana, Youth and Revolution in Tunisia
Marc Epprecht, Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
Lorenzo Cotula, The Great African Land Grab?
Michael Deibert, The Democratic Republic of Congo
Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly, Africa Uprising
Celeste Hicks, Africa’s New Oil
Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong
Theodore Trefon, Congo’s Environmental Paradox
Paul Richards, Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic
Louisa Lombard, State of Rebellion
Kris Berwouts, Congo’s Violent Peace
Hilary Matfess, Women and the War on Boko Haram
Celeste Hicks, The Trial of Hissène Habré
Mick Moore, Wilson Prichard and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Taxing Africa
Nanjala Nyabola, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics
Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic
Rachel Ibreck with a foreword by Alex de Waal, South Sudan’s Injustice System
Forthcoming titles
David Moore, Zimbabwe after Mugabe
Phil Clarke, Rwanda and Kagame
Trefon Theodore, Bushmeat
Published by Zed Books and the IAI with the support of the following organisations:
The principal aim of the International African Institute is to promote scholarly understanding of Africa, notably its changing societies, cultures and languages. Founded in 1926 and based in London, it supports a range of seminars and publications including the journal Africa.
www.internationalafricaninstitute.org
The Royal African Society is a membership organisation that provides opportunities for people to connect, celebrate and engage critically with a wide range of topics and ideas about Africa today. Through events, publications and digital channels it shares insight, instigates debate and facilitates mutual understanding between the UK and Africa. The society amplifies African voices and interest in academia, business, politics, the arts and education, reaching a network of more than one million people globally.
The World Peace Foundation, founded in 1910, is located at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. The Foundation’s mission is to promote innovative research and teaching, believing that these are critical to the challenges of making peace around the world, and should go hand in hand with advocacy and practical engagement with the toughest issues. Its central theme is ‘reinventing peace’ for the twenty-first century.
About the author
Yotam Gidron is a researcher whose writing focuses on migration, state-society relations and popular culture in Africa and Israel/Palestine. He has worked with human rights organisations in Israel and
