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Hardi Yakubu

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Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation
Rapid decolonisation is a prerequisite for African emancipation, and Free Movement is a great step towards that.
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“Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God. Africa Must Unite” — Kwame Nkrumah
Hardi Yakubu recently visited the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa and paid a courtesy call to Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. The letter assesses how the organisation that...

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Women protesting the failure of the gender equality bills on International Women’s Day in 2022.

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Hardi Yakubu

Stories By Hardi Yakubu

Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation

“Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God. Africa Must Unite” — Kwame Nkrumah

Harare Voices and Beyond: A story of the predator, the prey and everyone else in between

Borderless Africa: Free movement in Africa is a step towards complete decolonisation

UK seems ready to return its ‘last African colony’

Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture

Gender equality in Nigeria: Three reasons why women aren’t represented in politics

Is Malawi’s Chakwera actively stifling his corruption buster?

Will Nigeria’s next president answer to the public?

Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa’s deputy president: what he brings to the table

5th Anniversary of the final forced deportations of the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago

Jean-Paul Zé Bella: the cunning Cameroonian soldier who became a global music legend

Pan-Africanism remains a dream – 4 key issues the African Union must tackle

Record numbers of displaced Africans face worsening prospects

Upcoming Netflix series spotlights legendary African matriarchs

When two elephants fight: how the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries

Nigerian elections: Eight issues young people want the new government to address

Portugal to use Cabo Verdean debt to fund climate and energy transition

Ghana’s Nkrumahist parties keep splitting – a threat to their strength in the 2024 election

AKA: slain South African rapper was a once-in-a-generation pop culture sensation

Nigeria and South Africa triumph at the 2023 Grammys

South Africa’s ruling party has favoured loyalty over competence – now cadre deployment has come back to bite it

Cartoon | UK High Court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda

Benin’s 30m ‘Amazon’ statue honours the women warriors of Dahomey

Women behind the decks: The rise of South Africa’s female Amapiano DJs

Alliance High School appoints new head — the smooth transition marks a new dawn

Saudi Arabia is a modern slave hub and graveyard for African migrant workers

Cartoon | Nigeria elections 2023

Beyoncé is going on a world tour. Why she shouldn’t ignore Africa

Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) continues discriminatory ban on queer content

Angelique Kidjo: the diva from Benin could win a record sixth Grammy Award

What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe

Nigeria and South Africa triumph at the 2023 Grammys

Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election: 10 factors that could affect the outcome

South African Tourism wants to sponsor football club Tottenham Hotspur – is it a good idea?

Nigeria’s currency redesign and withdrawal limits: questionable policy and bad timing

Three Silences of Winky D

Nigeria failed to qualify for the World Cup 2022 – blame their disdain for football school structures and development

6 moments in African football in 2022 that will be talked about for years to come

Liberation in our lifetime: Towards an African socialist movement manifesto

UNESCO picks a side in the unceasing Jollof rice war

Obituary: TB Joshua, Nigeria’s controversial Pentecostal titan

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders – why free trade is a major talking point

Ghana ranked Africa’s best and Eritrea worst in World Press Freedom Index

On abortions: Empathy over judgement