ARI welcomes media enquiries

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Since its foundation two decades ago ARI staff have been frequently quoted or consulted by BBC World Service, Bloomberg, CNN, Newsweek, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera.

ARI has always particularly valued coverage in African newspapers and other media. Among the outlets to have featured commentary or publications are The Citizen and Mwananchi in Tanzania; The Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda; The Times and Daily Maverick in South Africa; Nyasa Times in Malawi; The Nation and The EastAfrican in Kenya; The Guardian Nigeria; and multiple online papers in Somaliland.

Guest speakers and publication authors from Africa were often interviewed by BBC World Service broadcasts before Africa-focused programming was moved to bureaus on the continent.

Here are a few examples from the archive:

In Print

Urban management and flooding in Freetown, Sierra Leone

CityLab’s Sam Sturgis examines ‘complex and exciting’ urban planning projects and cites ARI Counterpoint ‘Who Will Plan Africa’s Cities?’.

‘By 2050, a quarter of the world’s people will be African – this will shape our future’ in The Guardian

‘Sierra Leone: music in the time after Ebola’ in the Daily Maverick

Commentary on the 52nd anniversary of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar in The Citizen (English) and Mwananchi (Swahili)

Sound and Vision

Côte d’Ivoire vice-president takes office amid army discontent – listen here

‘Corruption and Aid in Malawi’ on Business Day with Ed Butler

‘Plugging the holes once and for all? Fatalities from rain, floods and mudslides in Sierra Leone’ on Sonny Decker’s Talking Africa podcast

TRT World News on the fuel strike in Nigeria

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