Debating Development Education

The key issues debated and tips for winning arguments.

Debating Fairtrade

The modern fairtrade movement is now some 50 years old and has a significant history and track record reflected in current debates, arguments and criticisms.

Africa rising is a false dawn

Ten years after The Economist declared that Africa was ‘a basket case’ it was back with another headline: ‘Africa Rising…the hopeful continent’. If Africa is rising can it continue to do so, or will the many problems it still faces render its rising ‘a false dawn’?