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Nigeria Is Building an AI Economy. Who Will Protect Nigerians When the Algorithms Get It Wrong?
By the time Nigeria puts together all of the policies needed to regulate artificial intelligence, elements of the technology might have already been implemented. ... -
Beyond the Fighter Jets: What Algeria’s Deployment to Niger Really Signals
Four Algerian Su-30 fighters touched down in Niamey on 30 August 2026, trailed by an aerial refueling aircraft. A day earlier, mutinous soldiers — ... -
Living and Losing the ECOWAS Dream: Borders, Belonging, and Betrayal
As I entered Benin, I waited for the air to change. I stood at that threshold with the quiet anticipation of someone expecting a ... -
Africa’s Pension Funds Are Already Allowed to Invest at Home. They Don’t.
Reformers keep asking governments to raise the ceilings on where domestic institutional capital can go. The ceilings are nowhere near being reached and one ... -
God Forbid a Pan-Africa: Pan-Africanism’s Non-Works
God forbid a Pan-Africa. Pan-Africanism is the belief that all Africans, both on the continent and in the diaspora, are united in solidarity and ... -
The Coup Costs More Than the Corruption It Claims to Fix
Since 2020, soldiers have seized power in Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso (twice), Niger, and Gabon. In every case, the announcement has followed the ... -
The Beijing of It All: Africa’s Development Terms Are No Longer Written in Washington or Brussels
In the period that followed decolonisation, Africa’s development landscape continued to be shaped by Western partnerships. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, this ... -
Present but Displaced: What Western Objections to Reparations Fail to See
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the trafficking and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans the ... -
After Accra, Africa’s Health Sovereignty Needs Receipts
Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa’s health sovereignty will only become real ... -
When Police Extortion Pushes Nigerians Away from the Law
On 21 June 2026, Malama Ummulkhairi, an Islamic teacher, was killed by a mob in Maraban Jos, Kaduna State, after an accusation of child ...
