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Kurt Davis Jr.
Covid: The unwritten letter from Southern African leaders…

If you look at the people coming in and out of South Africa in recent weeks, a significant number of them have been Europeans. This suggests that this new variant had already spread outside Africa at some level. Thereby these travel bans, simply put, are relatively ineffective reactionary responses.Read more

By Kurt Davis Jr.
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Olawale Olusola
Nigeria and South Africa have a love-hate relationship

The visit of South Africa's President Ramaphosa's visit to Nigeria is important given the context of their love-hate relationship. Read more

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Nic Cheeseman
Chad, Guinea, Mali, Sudan… Can a coup be a springboard for democracy?

Can a military coup ever be the founding stone of a democracy?Read more

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‘We killed the President!’

‘We killed the President!’

As the trial of the presumed assassins of Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara opened in October, we take a look back at the destinies of eight African presidents who were all assassinated while on duty. Eight men, who ascended the top peak, but paid for it with their lives.

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