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Nigerian Politics Is Not as Empty as We Think (opens the original)
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As the campaign for Nigeria’s 2027 general election kicks into gear and candidates crisscross the country in search of votes, many received wisdoms about Nigerian politics will abound.For the purpose of this piece, I shall focus on five common examples:politicians lack ideas and rarely engage seriously with policyparties have no ideology and exist principally for politicians to win electionsparties are all the sameelections are popularity contests whose outcomes are determined by godfathers</spa
East Africa’s Great Experiment (opens the original)
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I recently returned from an extensive trip across East Africa, the part of the continent where, after my home region of West Africa, I spend the most time. I visited large cities, secondary towns and rural communities during my travels, moving through places that offer varying perspectives on East Africa’s political economy often missing from international accounts of the region.In Kenya, I spent time in Nairobi and neighboring Kiambu, traveled through parts of Ukambani, Mount Kenya and the Rift
Idols Become Rivals: The Unraveling of Senegal’s Faye-Sonko Partnership (opens the original)
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Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on May 22 and dissolved the government the next day, after months of mounting tensions between the erstwhile allies. On June 1, Faye announced a new Cabinet and appointed Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo, a former senior official at the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), to replace Sonko. Several weeks later, <a href="https://lesoleil.sn/actualites/politique/lancement-de-kiiraay-les-patriotes-republicains-bassirou-di
The Nation That Forgot Its Continent (opens the original)
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I recently watched The Trials of Winnie Mandela, a Netflix documentary series about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the iconic anti-apartheid activist, politician and former wife of South Africa’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela.To many South Africans, Madikizela-Mandela—Mama Winnie, the Mother of the Nation—was not just a person. She was the embodiment of a South Africa forged in the liberation struggle, one that regarded the country’s future as in
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