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Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All Progressives Congress and the People's...
Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in January 2015. Launched in March...
How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...
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Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the...
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On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, did not...
Operation Dudula
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a ‘clean-up campaign’ to directly confront...
The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a home, a car, and send...
Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters at the party’s ten-year anniversary...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
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The campaign is...
EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools
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Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement
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IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the 16th century, a mechanism that...
How Greed Is Destroying Afrikan Environments And Ecosystems
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s Son Eyes 2026 Election Challenge
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Oil Money Heralds Trouble For Uganda’s Indigenous Bagungu Tribe, Environment
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Aiding Poverty By Smuggling A Rare Black Stone For 30 Pieces Of Silver
For Claudious Murungweni (not his real name), a 35-year-old bus conductor plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa cross-border route, the corruption and smuggling of a low base mineral has turned around...
Lumumba’s Tooth: A Symbolic Caricature Of Afrika’s Continued Political Toothlessness
The western media’s campaign in 1960 to discredit the first democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo (modern-day DRC), Patrice Èmery Lumumba, make a sad ending as...
Ghana’s Quest For A National Cathedral Has An Immoral Foundation
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Potential Security Risks In Southern Africa As Zambia Hosts AFRICOM
The United States of America’s military footprint has been felt in Southern Africa after a security pact signed between Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema and the US embassy in Lusaka...
Sankara’s Murder Verdict: Is The Life Sentencing Of Absent Blaise Compaoré Enough?
Thomas Sankara’s murder verdict was announced on Wednesday, April 6 by the military tribunal which sentenced former President Blaise Compaoré and his former colleagues, Hyacinthe Kafando and Gilbert Diendéré,...
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Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations
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How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women,...
Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special...
Namibia Lithium Battle
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and...
Operation Dudula
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
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At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a...
Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in...
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An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of...
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To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU,...
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IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...