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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.

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

Nigeria and Climate Change Global Trends and Local Challenges

Habiba DaggashJune 18, 2018
The Excessive Debt Burdens of COVID-19 Development Financing in the Pandemic

Chimezie AnajamaMarch 31, 2021
Who’s Afraid of Saving Money? The Political Economy of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund

Daniel OlikaSeptember 16, 2019
Xi-Led Growth? Nigeria at FOCAC 2018

Oreva OlakpeSeptember 11, 2018
Africa’s Lost Decade Women and the Structural Adjustment Programme

Fadekemi AbiruSeptember 25, 2018
Poor Institutions or Unfair Power Dynamics? Notes from Sierra Leone’s Alluvial Diamond Industry

Shaquille GilpinJuly 6, 2020
Africa’s Development Path The Role of Institutions

Oluwaseyi VincentNovember 6, 2018
Closed for Business Lessons from Nigeria's Border Closure

Abdulrasheed IsahFebruary 10, 2020
A Disaster Waiting to Happen? Nigeria’s Unchecked Population Growth

Barakat AkinsikuNovember 22, 2019

International Issues

Traditions and Trust Medical Ethics in the African Context

Busayo AkinmojuJuly 19, 2021
A New Scramble in the Horn of Africa The Multipolar Contest for Africa’s Eastern Region

Stephen PaduanoJuly 27, 2020
Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary

Chioma EchebiriNovember 22, 2021
Deep Unlearning? AI and Africa’s Struggling Public Institutions

Victor FamubodeMay 29, 2020
The New Mobility Apartheid? The Case for Vaccine Cosmopolitanism

Promise Frank EjioforMay 26, 2021
Africa in Perspective Migration, Mobility and Modern Slavery in Africa

Prince Fater AuduJune 7, 2021
What’s Happening in Mali?

Tomisin AwosikaJanuary 17, 2022
When ‘Modern Slavery’ Meant Colonial Rule Nigeria and Panya (Fernando Po) in the 1960s

Enrique MartinoJune 7, 2021
Africa’s Stake in Brexit Preparing for the Inevitable

Carlos LopesJuly 9, 2017

Historical Issues

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

Kasajja ByakikaDecember 1, 2021
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ‘Sozaboy’ What War Literature Teaches Us About the Political Economy of Violence

Ndidi AkaharaJuly 28, 2021
Head Above Water The Negotiations of Buchi Emecheta

Chika UnigweNovember 17, 2021

Political Issues

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

Chiamaka DikeJanuary 14, 2022
For the People, Without the People The Crisis of Representation in Nigerian Politics

Dafe oputuMay 9, 2019
Songs in the #EndSARS Protests How Music Captured the Frustrations of Young Nigerians

Adekunle FaladeMarch 3, 2021
The Same Old Game Africa’s Opportunity in the New Scramble for the Continent

Gbọ́láhàn AdébíyìSeptember 23, 2020
“Siasa ni Mchezo Mchafu” The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Kenyan Politics

Edwin ChegeFebruary 3, 2018
Religion Reinvented The Cult of Mao and Societal Change in China's Cultural Revolution

Kenddrick ChanApril 1, 2018
Globalization and Global Value Chains Prospects for Africa's Industrialization

Daniel ChimezieSeptember 6, 2019
A Disaster Waiting to Happen? Nigeria’s Unchecked Population Growth

Barakat AkinsikuNovember 22, 2019
On the National Red Line Negotiating Nigeria’s ‘Non-Negotiable’ Unity

Chukwudi UkonneJanuary 27, 2021

Social Issues

‘I Always Start With Structure and Flow.’ Paula Akugizibwe's First Draft

Paula AkugizibweMarch 26, 2021
The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

Promise Frank EjioforJanuary 24, 2022
Where is ‘The Field’? Centring the Periphery in Kinshasa

Rachel StrohmDecember 9, 2019
Grieving From a Distance A Transatlantic Memorial for My Grandfather

Damilola OyedeleSeptember 15, 2021
Against Imperialism Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad and the Representation of Africa

Vina NwekeNovember 20, 2019
Are Nigerians ‘Black’ Enough to Talk about Race? Re-imagining the Discourse on Race

Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ ṢóyẹmíMay 17, 2019
From Glamour Girls to Nolly Babes Nollywood Nostalgia and the Modern Nigerian Woman

Merlin UwalakaMarch 1, 2019
‘Writing never dies.’ Promise Frank Ejiofor's First Draft

Promise Frank EjioforMarch 5, 2021
The Foreign Flows of Nigerian Hip-Hop Nigeria’s Hip-Hop Problem

Carl TerverJune 8, 2020

Technological Issues

The Current State of AIDS And the Future of Global Security

Obinna ChukwuDecember 2, 2017
Southern Africa’s Persistent Dilemma Coronavirus and the Lost Legacy of the AIDS Epidemic

Liam James KingsleyNovember 2, 2020
African Tech for African Problems Should We Be Celebrating Big Tech in Africa?

Emeka Joseph NwankwoSeptember 7, 2019
Are We Victims of Pharmaceutical Half-Truths? The Politics of Clinical Trials in Africa

Charles BesidonneFebruary 22, 2021
Electrons Are Free but Not Electricity Finding the Right Price for Electricity in Nigeria

Tam AlexNovember 18, 2020
#TooBigToLike Questioning ‘Choice’ in Global Surveillance Capitalism

Aarshin KarandeAugust 20, 2019
The Vengeful Outdoors? The Environmental Drivers of COVID-19

Amirah YusufMay 8, 2020
Detty December in Nigeria: ‘People are Tired of COVID-19 Protocols’

Todah OpeyemiDecember 24, 2021
Disinformation Era The Politics of Information in the Digital Age

Alhassan Pereira IbrahimSeptember 7, 2019