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    Afrobeats: The birth of Afro-Adura

    By Doyin Olagunju
    May 27, 2023
    The fast-rising genre is spawning a new wave of Afrobeats stars, and adds a spiritual dimension rooted in a century-old African church.  In January ...
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    Gatsa-Gatsa: Ousmane Sonko and Senegal’s politics of retaliation

    By Bamba Ndiaye
    May 15, 2023
    Sonko’s legal problems, which appear engineered to frustrate his presidential bid, could well push the country back into the street.  On May 8, 2023, ...
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  • When the government removed some fuel subsidies in 2012, it prompted huge protests across Nigeria. Credit: Kolawole Oreoluwa.
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    How (and why) Nigeria should remove its fuel subsidy

    By Stephen Onyeiwu
    May 5, 2023
    Nigeria spends a quarter of its budget on a regressive fuel subsidy. Removing it and distributing the savings can help the poorest. Nigerians are ...
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  • The National Elections Commission, Monrovia, Liberia.
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    Is Liberia heading towards an electoral crisis?

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey and Oscar Bloh
    April 15, 2023
    A suspicious census, a cash-strapped electoral commission and voter eligibility based on phenotype signal a dubious October election.  Six months before high-stakes presidential and ...
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  • In the midst of the violence in northeastern Nigeria, INEC established 61 voting centres as a safer alternative for IDPs in camps in Zamfara to vote. Photo courtesy: Commonwealth Observer Group 2023.
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    How Nigeria avoided organised violence during the 2023 elections

    By Imrana Buba
    April 6, 2023
    Super Camps and military vigilance in the North, and Peter Obi’s candidature in the southeast quelled much potential violence.   In the 2015 presidential elections, ...
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  • Former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, observing the Nigerian presidential elections. Photo courtesy: Commonwealth Observer Group
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    Nigeria’s curious voter turnout problem

    By Adebayo Abdulrahman
    March 23, 2023
    Why do Nigerian voters disappear when new technology is introduced at the polling booth?  Four presidential candidates have now filed petitions at the presidential ...
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  • A still from the 2004 Ousmane Sembène film Moolaadé.
    CinemaCultureSenegalTop storyTribute

    Learning from Sembène: Telling the stories that matter

    By Dika Ofoma
    March 3, 2023
    A hundred years after Sembène’s birth, a budding filmmaker describes his social awakening and discovery of the late Senegalese director. I grew up primarily ...
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  • ElectionsNigeriaTop story

    Did Nigeria’s election tech fail or was it sabotaged?

    By Adebayo Abdulrahman
    March 2, 2023
    Young voters put their faith in digital technology. But at polling units nationwide, many were transported to an elections twilight zone.  Victor Madu, a ...
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  • Safi Faye in repose.
    CultureEditor's PicksSenegalTribute

    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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  • Former Gombe State governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo. He made a solid effort to arrest spiralling gang violence in the state. (Photo courtesy: Seriake Dickson).
    CountryElectionsNigeria

    The Gangs of Gombe

    By Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim
    February 24, 2023
    Birthed by democracy, recruited by rival politicians, they have operated with impunity. This election season has been no different. On 12 December last year, ...
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