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Burundi: A president “chosen by God” and those who disagree
Pierre Nkurunziza continues to tighten his grip ahead of May 2020 elections. Is it too late to stop the crisis deepening? Four years after ... -
Somalia: President Farmaajo’s stacks the deck to secure a second term
With full elections unlikely in 2020, the incumbent is trying to lock down the support of lawmakers who will again select the president. Although ... -
Funmi Iyanda has a bold new movie out. But don’t call it a comeback.
She never left. In 2004, when Bisi Alimi took the radical decision to come out on national television, he chose to do it on ... -
Zambia: The plan to remove President Lungu, from within his own party
Some in the ruling Patriotic Front have rallied behind the president. Others have developed a four-point plan to get rid of him. On 8 ... -
If you believe you are a citizen of the world…
What’s remarkable today is not that identities are becoming more fluid and borderless, but that they ever became fixed and bordered. As a member ... -
On Lionheart’s Oscar ban: Is Nigerian English a Foreign Language?
US universities treat Nigerian English as a foreign language. The Oscars say it is not foreign enough. As a linguist and former teacher of ... -
Charlie Chaplin and the reclaiming of Sudan
Khartoum’s locally-organised open air film screenings epitomise much about Sudan’s ongoing revolution. This article was made possible by the generous “supporter” subscribers of the ... -
To beat or not to beat: Museveni’s big Bobi Wine problem
Uganda’s ruling party is in a bind. Less repression will allow the opposition to mobilise and grow. More could inspire revolt. At a rally ... -
Why has violence increased since Cameroon’s National Dialogue?
The government’s Grand National Dialogue and apparent change of approach was supposed to resolve, not intensify, the Anglophone crisis. Over the past month, the ... -
How I fell in, out, and back in love with the leso
The East African wrapper is a source of pride, rich in meaning and history. But it is more complicated than that. The story of ...
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