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Data, Public Interest and National Security The Politics of Data Security in Nigeria

Osivue ItseumahJanuary 17, 2022

The Nigerian government is trying to create a database that links mobile phone users’ SIM cards with their National Identity Numbers—but can any government today be trusted with citizens’ sensitive data? Read more.

December 21/January 22Nigeria

Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021

Chiamaka DikeJanuary 14, 2022

Nigeria’s elections are expensive and inefficient. An electoral amendment act proposes possible improvements, its deadline passed yesterday and there’s no indication it has been signed. Read more.

December 2021NewsNigeria

Former Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Has Died

Tomisin AwosikaJanuary 12, 2022

Nigerian politician, Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, who served as the governor of Oyo State from May 2007 to May 2011 has died. Read more.

January 2022NewsNigeria

Former Nigerian Leader, Ernest Shonekan, Has Died

Tomisin AwosikaJanuary 11, 2022

Ernest Shonekan, interim head of state of Nigeria from 26 August to 17 November 1993, died this morning at a hospital in Lagos. Read more.

January 2022NewsNigeria

Who Was Tanimowo Ogunlesi?

Tomisin AwosikaDecember 21, 2021

Tanimowo Ogunlesi was a women’s rights activist, teacher, and founding member of the women’s section of Obafemi Awolowo’s, Action Group (AG). Read more.

December 2021GenderNigeria

Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021

Chiamaka DikeDecember 20, 2021

Nigeria’s elections are expensive and inefficient. An electoral amendment act proposes possible improvements, its deadline passed yesterday and there’s no indication it has been signed. Read more.

December 2021NewsNigeria

A Barrel of Rotten Apples How a Judicial Crisis Has Flourished Under Buhari’s Watch

Tosin OsasonaDecember 15, 2021

The problems of the judicial system in Nigeria predate both the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and even this current republic. Read more.

December 21/January 22Nigeria

Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa

Ogechukwu OkonkwoDecember 6, 2021

Kwame Nkrumah envisioned pan-Africanism as a means of uniting and uplifting Africans across Africa and the diaspora but was ousted in 1966 before achieving his aim. Read more.

December 21/January 22GhanaLibya

Students in the Struggle for Kenyan Democracy A Brief History of University Student Activism in Kenya

Kasajja ByakikaDecember 1, 2021

Student activism in Kenya is a form of protest and resistance against oppression. At its very heart, it is also a demonstration of leadership and the capacity for mass mobilization. Read more.

December 21/January 22Kenya

Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary

Chioma EchebiriNovember 22, 2021

Seretse Khama made an usual mark in the arena of politics in southern Africa, but his role in Botswana’s road to independence is unheralded history. Read more.

BotswanaOctober/November 2021South Africa

Politics & Security

Data, Public Interest and National Security The Politics of Data Security in Nigeria

Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021

Former Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Has Died

Former Nigerian Leader, Ernest Shonekan, Has Died

Who Was Tanimowo Ogunlesi?

Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021

A Barrel of Rotten Apples How a Judicial Crisis Has Flourished Under Buhari’s Watch

Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa

Students in the Struggle for Kenyan Democracy A Brief History of University Student Activism in Kenya

Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary

The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

What Does Africapitalism Actually Mean? Power, Gender and the Promise of Africapitalism

Who Was Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo?

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