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For sustainable agriculture in West Africa, let’s leave our echo chambers
Regional governments are supporting agroecology with one hand and business as usual with the other. Sustainable agriculture is growing fast in West Africa, and ... -
Nigerians are the funniest people on the internet. These five prove it.
A growing wave of comedians in Nigeria are keeping the country and its diaspora laughing. Nigerians believe they are some of the funniest people ... -
4 out of 4: Why has Mali had so many successful coups?
If we exclude short-lived interim leaders, Mali has only had one president that did not leave office at the barrel of a gun. Coups ... -
Why do so many Nigerians love Donald Trump?
I spoke to my Trump-supporting acquaintance Fred to try and find out. When Donald Trump became president in 2017, America’s global image plummeted. In ... -
We must continue to scale up malaria programmes, despite COVID-19
Malaria deaths could double if the fight against coronavirus detracts from anti-malaria efforts, warns Sierra Leone’s Health Minister Alpha T. Wurie. In 2014, Sierra ... -
What travels along the Jollof Road?
For three months, a few colleagues and I travelled across West Africa discovering the many things that bind us together…alongside Jollof Rice. This essay ... -
The hidden costs of getting a UK visa
Perhaps by laying out the financial and emotional toll of getting a visa, the UK Home Office will be forced to see me as ... -
They survived Ebola. Now they want to teach others to survive COVID-19.
Ebola survivors across West Africa could be a very useful knowledge resource to governments in their pandemic response strategies. Will they take the opportunity? ... -
Nigeria: Jumping on the bandwagon is not a COVID-19 strategy
Nigeria imposed a lockdown when it had few cases, then eased it as they accelerated. More importantly, it did not use the time it ...
