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    Editor's PicksPoliticsRadical Activism in Africa

    Thinking radically in Africa must start with political education

    By Nanjala Nyabola
    October 12, 2021
    It’s easy to dismiss education as part of the work that an activist does, but without it our activism remains reactionary, not radical. This ...
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  • Female police officers drag prominent Stella Nyanzi to a police van in Kampala in May 2020. Credit: Abubakar Lubowa/Ugandan Press Photo Award (UPPA).
    PoliticsRadical Activism in Africa

    Registers of radical activism in Africa

    By Stella Nyanzi
    October 11, 2021
    Anything short of radical revolutionary activism, which we explore in this new series, will neither liberate us Africans nor redeem our continent. This article ...
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    Covid-19MalawiOn Food Security & COVID19

    Malawi: COVID-19 hindered business for farmers. They found solutions.

    By Charles Pensulo
    October 8, 2021
    With access to markets and capital negatively impacted by the pandemic, people have found ways to cushion the damage.  In Blantyre, everyone in the ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPoliticsTop story

    Nigeria’s war on tech

    By Chukwudi B. Ukonne
    October 6, 2021
    The tech industry is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing, but is independent of the state patronage system and therefore must be eliminated. The Nigerian ...
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    Covid-19On Food Security & COVID19Uganda

    “I was tricked into buying air”: Ugandans are losing their land

    By John Okot & Denis Omony
    September 29, 2021
    Amid the pandemic, many people have taken out loans, using land as collateral. Unable to earn and pay their debts, some now face eviction. ...
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    #EndSARSEditor's PicksNigeriaPolitics

    #EndSARS: A movement finding healing six months after a massacre

    By Zainab Onuh-Yahaya
    April 22, 2021
    “We asked to not be killed and we got killed for it.” In early October 2020, thousands of young Nigerians took to the streets ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    The Nigerian government is burying its atrocities by attacking free press

    By Adewumi Emoruwa
    December 17, 2020
    The press has remained resilient during the #EndSARS protests, but these hostilities have to end for the sake of the country’s democracy. For two ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    #EndSARS: It’s time for the diaspora to pick up the shift

    By Temi Ibirogba and Morufat Bello
    December 16, 2020
    What the Nigerian diaspora can do to maintain #EndSARS’ momentum and get justice for victims of police brutality. When Nigerians began protesting against police ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    #EndSARS: A new youth party isn’t the right next step. Here’s what is

    By James Ladi Williams
    December 15, 2020
    Young Nigerians have found their voice. Now they must decide carefully how to use it.  This October, thousands of young people took to the ...
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    #EndSARSNigeriaPolitics

    For #EndSARS, Nigerian women drew from a rich history of mobilisation

    By Victoria Ikpeme
    November 20, 2020
    And their work will not be erased.  On 4 October, popular online commentator Ozzy Etomi opined on Twitter: “There’ll be some traction to the ...
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