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  • Photo of the WeekSão Tomé and Príncipe

    Photo of the Week: São Tomé and Príncipe’s changing climates

    By Uncategorised
    June 30, 2017
    This week’s photo comes to you from the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa’s second smallest country after the Seychelles. In the ...
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  • Schoolboys with a school in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria. Credit: Roberto Saltori.
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    Visiting Boko Haram territory

    By Helon Habila
    June 28, 2017
    An excerpt from Helon Habila’s new book, The Chibok Girls. Three days before my trip to Chibok, I had flown into Maiduguri, the capital ...
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    Mali: The stoning that didn’t happen, and why it matters

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    Most media accounts depict an unequivocal reign of terror under Islamist rule in northern Mali. That’s inaccurate in some important ways. On 17 May, ...
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    GhanaPhoto of the Week

    Photo of the Week: The kayayei of Ghana

    By Matteo Carzaniga
    June 16, 2017
    After another gruelling day carrying goods on their heads around the city, some young kayayei relax by watching TV before returning to their shacks in one ...
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    Montreal: the latest hotspot for Africa’s rulers to keep their wealth?

    By Emmanuel Freudenthal & Hugo Joncas
    June 3, 2017
    A new African Arguments investigation has found that politically-exposed African nationals hold Canadian real estate worth several millions of dollars. The study, conducted in ...
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    Gold, guns and China: Ghana’s fight to end galamsey

    By Edward Burrows & Lucia Bird
    May 30, 2017
    Hundreds of thousands, including many from China, are engaged in illegal artisanal mining. How can the government stop it? At the start of April, ...
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  • Biafra separatists from the group IPOB gather. Credit: Radio Biafra.
    NigeriaPolitics

    Nigeria: How to solve a problem like Biafra

    By Nnamdi Obasi
    May 29, 2017
    Many Igbo feel politically and economically marginalised, and the government’s hardline stance is not helping. 50 years after Nigeria’s then Eastern Region declared itself ...
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  • A pro-Biafra protest organised by IPOB in London. Credit: David Holt.
    NigeriaPolitics

    Biafra 50 years on: Remembering, regretting, repeating history?

    By Orji Sunday
    May 26, 2017
    Half a century on from the 30 May declaration of independence from Nigeria, calls for secession are growing again. As he casts his mind ...
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  • Otodo-Gbame in Lagos being razed.
    NigeriaSociety

    Shuffering and shmiling through Lagos’ elitist 50-year celebrations

    By Wilfred Okiche
    May 24, 2017
    Where were the poor, Igbos and other minorities in the state’s 50-day birthday party? Lagos state, Nigeria’s economic and commercial capital, turns fifty this year. To ...
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  • Nigerian military forces on international duty. Credit: AU-UN ST PHOTO / STUART PRICE
    NigeriaPolitics

    Nigeria: Coup rumours reflect rising distrust in Buhari’s absence

    By Idayat Hassan
    May 23, 2017
    Coup? Don’t even dare. Last week, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, issued a stern warning to soldiers to stay out of politics, ...
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