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  • The AfDB African Emergency Food Production Facility is centred on expanding an industrial model of agriculture centred on monocropping and use of chemical fertilisers. Credit: CIMMYT/ Peter Lowe.
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    Why’s the AfDB siding with the Agrochemical Industrial Complex?

    By Frédéric Mousseau & Andy Currier
    March 10, 2023
    Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution. ...
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    “Mainstream history was written by the coloniser…it’s time we wrote ours”

    By Leila Aboulela
    March 7, 2023
    An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum’s 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. AFRICAN ...
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    Safi Faye: Farewell to a pioneering filmmaker

    By Estrella Sendra
    February 24, 2023
    Senegalese filmmaker was the first African woman to make a commercial feature film, Kaddu Beykat, in 1975. Last Thursday, as filmmakers, curators and cinephiles were ...
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    Why Zambia’s president is adored abroad but a disappointment at home

    By Sishuwa Sishuwa
    December 16, 2022
    Since coming to power in 2021, Hichilema has enthusiastically courted the approval of the West, often at Zambia’s expense. Despite his lack of significant ...
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    The best African books of 2022

    By Samira Sawlani
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    From the thought provoking and evocative to the laughter inducing, here are our best African books of 2022 (in no particular order).  Things They ...
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    The making of a global port, and the unmaking of a people

    By Nasir M. Ali, Jutta Bakonyi & May Darwich
    December 1, 2022
    Having survived centuries of successive governments, colonialism and war, have Berbera’s dockworkers finally met their match? Somaliland’s dockworkers have been part of the unique ...
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    Is it time to abandon decolonisation?

    By Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh
    November 17, 2022
    Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book.   Does decolonisation, ...
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    Editor's PicksKenyaPolitics

    “A struggle in a struggle”: Patriarchy in Kenya’s social justice movement

    By Lena Anyuolo
    November 9, 2022
    Sexism is depleting activist movements, silencing women’s voices, and leading to burnout. Yet it is hardly spoken about. When Irene Asuwa first found out ...
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  • Those who migrate (or Japa) in Nigeria often keep plans secret until they are complete.
    Editor's PicksNigeriaSociety

    Why are Nigerians keeping migration plans secret from their friends?

    By Kingsley Charles
    November 8, 2022
    Many relationships have suffered as people planning to leave Nigeria only inform their nearest and dearest once they’ve already gone.  On the morning of ...
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  • A member of MONUSCO, one of the forces in the eastern DRC where the M23 is operating, clears Unexploded Ordnance (UXO). Credit: UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti.
    Congo-KinshasaEditor's PicksPoliticsRwanda

    The return of M23: Is there a way out for the DRC?

    By Stephanie Wolters
    November 1, 2022
    Several international forces are deployed in the eastern Congo, where the Rwanda-backed rebel group continues to seize towns and territory. Last week, Angola’s President ...
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