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  • AfrobeatsCultureEditor's PicksNigeria

    Afrobeats: How does the next chapter play out?

    By Brian Too
    June 20, 2023
    Afrobeats rode on its own generated zeitgeist to become a staple of the global cultural marketplace. How does it negotiate a bigger piece of ...
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  • EconomyEditor's PicksMadagascarPolitics

    How Madagascar’s new foreign investment law will perpetuate the colonial dispossession of the people

    By Velomahanina Razakamaharavo & Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo
    June 16, 2023
    The new law gives foreign investors equal rights to land as ordinary Malagasy, some who are still demanding the return of  ancestral lands seized ...
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    ClimateEditor's PicksThe view(s) from Africa

    The view(s) from Africa: What to make of the Bonn climate talks?

    By The View(s) from Africa
    June 16, 2023
    We gathered a diverse panel to break down the significance and outcomes of the crucial pre-COP28 meeting for Africa. Every June, delegates from across ...
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    ClimateEditor's PicksNigeriaSociety

    Nigeria’s Happy City is on the brink of being swallowed by the sea

    By Abiodun Jamiu
    June 6, 2023
    As the community await international funding and national action, the once reputed coastal town is disappearing in rising ocean surges. On a spring morning ...
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  • AA InvestigatesCameroonEditor's PicksLong read

    Cameroon: The keyboard warlords of the breakaway republic

    By Zane Irwin
    June 5, 2023
    Two social media rivals from the Anglophone southwest, based in far-off England, have been prosecuting their own digital war – with life-and-death consequences in ...
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    ClimateEconomyEditor's Picks

    Africa’s topsy-turvy food paradox

    By Edward Mukiibi
    June 1, 2023
    Why embrace a food system proven to be harmful to health, nutrition, dignity, equality, local economies, and the environment? Imagine a country defined by ...
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  • Rendering of a Kubik home, made from recycled plastic. Credit: Kubik.
    ClimateEconomyEditor's PicksEthiopia

    “Our target is replacing cement”: The Ethiopian startup thinking big

    By James Wan
    May 24, 2023
    Kubik promises to turn plastic waste into high quality affordable homes. We spoke to its CEO about dignity, safety, and thinking globally. Most startups ...
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  • Editor's PicksKenyaPolitics

    The rebirth of anti-elite land politics in Ruto’s Kenya

    By Dauti Kahura and Peter Lockwood
    May 23, 2023
    If the invasion of the Kenyatta property resurrected the ghosts of Mau Mau, where did it leave the land question in central Kenya? Northlands. ...
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    ClimateEconomyEditor's Picks

    Remember amid the headlines: there’s no such thing as a “natural” disaster

    By Laurie Parsons
    May 23, 2023
    Poor countries aren’t disproportionately vulnerable to climate change because of geography or bad luck.  In early-May, huge floods swept through South Kivu in the ...
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  • CRISIS IN SUDANEditor's Picks

    Sudan: Calling it a fight between the generals is simplistic

    By Mohamed Kheir Omer
    May 18, 2023
    Northern and Central elites have always prosecuted violence from the centre. Now, the periphery brought the eternal war to Khartoum. Violence is not new ...
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