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Nigeria: The lingering roots left by Britain’s looting and killing

Today Nigeria’s political system is more fiercely contested than ever with some militants trying to break up the federation – to what extent ... do these schisms have their roots in the extreme violence of Britain’s commercial exploitation of the territory and its colonial conquest ?

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Nigeria’s Obiageli Ezekwesili – “Get interested by politics, or be ruled by idiots”

As Nigeria grapples with multiple insurgencies, with the hangover from the #EndSARS protests still fresh, governance campaigner Obiageli Ezekwesili ... does not mince her words. Without urgent action and deep-rooted reform, she says, the country will slide into existential chaos.

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PODCAST: Michela Wrong on her book ‘Do not disturb’

When veteran correspondent Michela Wrong started researching her book, ‘Do Not Disturb – the story of a political murder and an African regime ... gone bad’ on the killing of Rwanda’s spymaster Patrick Karegeya, she knew it was going to prompt fierce arguments about President Paul Kagame’s record and the country’s direction.

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Famine in Tigray: ‘I have never documented anything as relentless & systematic as what we’re seeing’

If the fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray does not stabilise soon, its people will face starvation and more devastation than the famine that nearly ... destroyed them in the 1980s, says a report just published by the World Peace Foundation.

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Nigeria’s mass atrocities: How did we get here & how do we get out?

Kidnappings, clashes between farmers/herders, criminal gangs. government complicity....how did Nigeria get to this point? And what can be done ... to stop the cycle?

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Niger’s ‘African Apocalypse’: ‘This is deep history that still hasn’t been acknowledged’

Elements of African history can be pieced together from the different European conquests, the local responses to them and the scars left ... behind.

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Bad roads block Liberian cocoa farmers from AfCFTA promise

Getting cocoa to market on Liberia’s treacherous roads is no joke. Like Liberia, many African countries hoping to take advantage of the African ... Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will require heavy investment in basic road infrastructure. In this episode of Talking Africa, we follow cocoa beans from harvest to coast.

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Biden says ‘America is Back’. What does that mean for Africa?

President Joe Biden has made much of the return of the United States into the concert of nations; rejoining the World Health Organisation, rejoining ... the Paris Climate accord, and withdrawing the threat to exit the World Trade Organisation.

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Egypt’s January 25 revolution: ‘There was no plan B’

January 25 2020 marks the ten year anniversary of Egypt’s revolution in 2011. It put in motion an end to the 29-year rule of Hosni Mubarak. ... But looking back to the start of those unprecedented protests, was it all in naught or did some good come out of it?

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Nigeria – The Making Of A Nation, from Jihad to Amalgamation

Nigeria's turbulent and hamstrung history has plenty to tell us about the current malaise. And, as says writer Maya Angelou, "If you don't know ... where you have come from, you don't know where you are going."

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