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IN THIS ISSUE

⎈ African Tech for African Problems: Should We Be Celebrating Big Tech in Africa? by Emeka Nwankwo; ⎈ Teetering on the Edge of a Cliff: Safeguarding Nigeria's Future Workforce by Misan Rewane; and ⎈ Disinformation Era: The Politics of Information in the Digital Age by Alhassan Pereira Ibrahim; and much more. Read the entire issue.

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From Our Latest Issue

African Tech for African Problems Should We Be Celebrating Big Tech in Africa?

Emeka Joseph NwankwoSeptember 7, 2019

Teetering on the Edge of a Cliff Safeguarding Nigeria's Future Workforce

Misan RewaneSeptember 6, 2019

Disinformation Era The Politics of Information in the Digital Age

Alhassan Pereira IbrahimSeptember 7, 2019

Globalization and Global Value Chains Prospects for Africa's Industrialization

Daniel ChimezieSeptember 6, 2019

Maga Don Pay Nigeria's Culture of Cybercrime

Stephen AgwaiborSeptember 6, 2019

Africa’s Misinformation Struggles The Impact of Misinformation on Africa and African Media

Christopher AjuloSeptember 6, 2019

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Connection Timed Out Nigeria's Internet Problem

Osaye AjariSeptember 6, 2019

Dennis Osadebe’s Near Future Art in The Republic V3 N3

The RepublicSeptember 9, 2019

Economic Issues

Teetering on the Edge of a Cliff Safeguarding Nigeria's Future Workforce

Misan RewaneSeptember 6, 2019
Connection Timed Out Nigeria's Internet Problem

Osaye AjariSeptember 6, 2019
Maga Don Pay Nigeria's Culture of Cybercrime

Stephen AgwaiborSeptember 6, 2019
Who’s Afraid of Saving Money? The Political Economy of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund

Daniel OlikaSeptember 16, 2019
Banking on Women Development’s Neoliberal Sexism

Fadekemi AbiruMay 22, 2020
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic

Liam James KingsleyNovember 2, 2020
On Policy Reluctance and Economic Peril Nigeria and the AfCFTA

Abdulrasheed IsahDecember 24, 2018
What Does a Future-Ready Africa Need? Change: A Terrifying Story

Johann HarmseOctober 12, 2019
What Does Africapitalism Actually Mean? Power, Gender and the Promise of Africapitalism

Immaculata AbbaJanuary 20, 2022

International Issues

Closed for Business Lessons from Nigeria's Border Closure

Abdulrasheed IsahFebruary 10, 2020
(Purse) Strings Attached From Dependency to Decolonization in Global Health

Paula AkugizibweAugust 14, 2020
Senegal Has Won the AFCON for the First Time Ever

Chiamaka DikeFebruary 7, 2022
Lessons in Mutualism 50 Years of Sino-Nigerian Relations

Oreva OlakpeFebruary 10, 2021
Nigeria Has Announced a New Policy to Reduce its Fertility Rate

Mustapha EnesiFebruary 4, 2022
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic

Liam James KingsleyNovember 2, 2020
Where is ‘The Field’? Centring the Periphery in Kinshasa

Rachel StrohmDecember 9, 2019
Traditions and Trust Medical Ethics in the African Context

Busayo AkinmojuJuly 19, 2021
“Siasa ni Mchezo Mchafu” The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Kenyan Politics

Edwin ChegeFebruary 3, 2018

Historical Issues

Brutish Museums Germany Wants to ‘Loan’ Namibian Artefacts to Namibia

Tomisin AwosikaMay 26, 2022
Wiredu’s Consensus Introducing Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy

Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ ṢóyẹmíJanuary 12, 2022
Genesis of a Revolutionary Robert Mugabe’s Political Formation

Brooks MarmonSeptember 8, 2021

Political Issues

Echoes of History COVID Vaccine Tests in Africa

Muzz MuhammadJune 5, 2020
Deep Unlearning? AI and Africa’s Struggling Public Institutions

Victor FamubodeMay 29, 2020
The Civil Soldier The Political Legacy of Olusegun Obasanjo

Chukwudi UkonneAugust 4, 2021
Nigeria’s Arrested Development A History of Accidental Presidents

Chukwudi UkonneApril 17, 2020
Kremlin’s Renewed Interest Russia’s Emerging Threat to Elections in Africa

Karen Wangui Mwangi and Chimwemwe FabianoJuly 24, 2020
Trade Not Aid Revisiting Obama's Legacy in Africa

Christopher Olaoluwa OgunmodedeAugust 2, 2017
‘For the People, by the People’ Rebuilding Trust in Nigeria’s Democratic Structures

Dafe oputuOctober 23, 2022
Poet in the Time of Buhari Nigeria at 59

Moyosore OrimoloyeOctober 1, 2019
Why Do We Vote? Questioning Political Ideology in Nigeria

Cynthia IgodoMay 9, 2019

Social Issues

‘Clarity is Key.’ Oluremi C. Onabanjo’s First Draft

Oluremi OnabanjoMay 13, 2020
‘I Read Towards My Biases.’ Grieve Chelwa’s First Draft

Grieve ChelwaJuly 2, 2021
‘African Countries Need to Speak With One Voice’ Tabitha Mwangi’s First Draft

Karen Wangui MwangiMay 13, 2022
National Belonging and Social Integration Race and Migration in Mozambique

Nafeesah AllenMarch 1, 2019
Modern Slavery, Child Exploitation or Both? Child Marriage in Nigeria

Olayinka AdeniyiJune 7, 2021
‘Write As Yourself and Write What You Know.’ Nanjala Nyabola's First Draft

Nanjala NyabolaApril 16, 2021
Buchi Emecheta’s ‘The Joys Of Motherhood’ A Precursor to Contemporary Nigerian Feminist Texts

Mobólúwajídìde JosephNovember 29, 2021
‘Editors Will Really Change Your Life.’ Fadekemi Abiru’s First Draft

Fadekemi AbiruMarch 12, 2021
‘I Liked to Think of Myself as a Cool, Distant Observer of the World’ Simukai Chigudu’s First Draft

Simukai ChiguduNovember 19, 2021

Technological Issues

Disinformation Era The Politics of Information in the Digital Age

Alhassan Pereira IbrahimSeptember 7, 2019
Traditions and Trust Medical Ethics in the African Context

Busayo AkinmojuJuly 19, 2021
Deceptions of Innovations Investigating the Claims of Big Tech

Aarshin KarandeMarch 6, 2020
Where Are the Medics? The Scramble for Africa’s Healthcare Workers

Charles EbikemeJuly 20, 2022
Echoes of History COVID Vaccine Tests in Africa

Muzz MuhammadJune 5, 2020
Africa’s Misinformation Struggles The Impact of Misinformation on Africa and African Media

Christopher AjuloSeptember 6, 2019
Teetering on the Edge of a Cliff Safeguarding Nigeria's Future Workforce

Misan RewaneSeptember 6, 2019
Are We Victims of Pharmaceutical Half-Truths? The Politics of Clinical Trials in Africa

Charles BesidonneFebruary 22, 2021
The Monkeypox Outbreak What You Need to Know

Tomisin AwosikaMay 24, 2022