Is Nigeria losing the fight against Boko Haram 10 years after the terror group was formed? With reports of soldiers buried in the night in secret graves, the human security situation is precarious. The Nigerian Army is struggling to effectively deal with the terrorist group, while having to contend with conflicts involving herdsmen in parts of the country.
Arts and Culture It’s Sarabi’s pride, Mufasa just lives there: a biologist on The Lion King
Lions don’t generally have armies of hyenas, but not every aspect of The Lion King is inaccurate.
Politics and Society Kwame Nkrumah: why, every now and then, his legacy is questioned
Like many great men, the legacy of Ghana’s independence hero is not uncontested.
Politics and Society Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting world record
Ethiopia’s Minister of Innovation and Technology claims that the country has broken the current one-day tree-planting record where over 50 million saplings were planted in India three years ago. The National Steering Committee confirmed that Ethiopia planted 353 million, 633 thousand, 660 trees in a space of 12-hours.
Politics and Society South Africa: Attitudes towards land occupations have to change, say researchers
Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa has released a series of reports on informal settlements
Politics and Society The Great Hack: What does Netflix’s doccie on data mean for Africa and its democracy?
Africans keep modelling their democracy against the West. Few are critical enough to speak about Africa modelling its own democracy against its own context. At a time when democracy in the West is being questioned due to the influence of companies such as Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, where does that leave Africa’s democracy?
Politics and Society South Africa: Somalian shops in Khayelitsha looted after shooting
“It was no longer about the shooting anymore but hatred towards us Somalians” says shop owner.
Politics and Society WhatsApp played a big role in the Nigerian election. Not all of it was bad
In the recent Nigerian election WhatsApp was used to mislead voters in increasingly sophisticated ways. But it also strengthened democracy in other areas.
African identities How ‘bride price’ reinforces negative stereotypes: a Ghanaian case study
Bride price practice has both social and psychological implications for the men who pay and those women for whom it is paid.