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This photo is for our essay on A New Doctrine? Understanding Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

A New Doctrine? Understanding Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

August 7, 2020
This photo is for our essay on 'A New Imperialism?'

A New Imperialism? Russia-Africa Relations in the Twenty-First Century

August 24, 2020
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Vol. 4, No. 3

Russia’s Africa?
IN THIS ISSUE
COVER ESSAYS
⎈ Kremlin's Renewed Interest: Russia's Emerging Threat to Elections in Africa by Tabitha Mwangi x Chimwemwe Fabiano; ⎈ A New Imperialism? — Russia-Africa Relations in the Twenty-First Century by Blessing Simura x George Mudimu x Fadzai Chipato ⎈ A Changing Dynamic: The Evolution of Russia-Africa Relations by Aaliyah Vayez; and ⎈ The Kremlin's North African Gateway: A Discourse — Western Sahara, Crimea and Russia's Interest in Morocco by Dylan Yachyshen. Read the entire issue.  

From Our Russia-Africa Issue

  • Kremlin’s Renewed Interest Russia’s Emerging Threat to Elections in Africa

    Karen Wangui Mwangi and Chimwemwe FabianoJuly 24, 2020

A Changing Dynamic The Evolution of Russia-Africa Relations

Aaliyah VayezSeptember 14, 2020

A New Imperialism? Russia-Africa Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Blessing Simura, George Mudimu and Fadzai ChipatoAugust 24, 2020

The Kremlin’s North African Gateway? Western Sahara, Crimea and Russia’s Interest in Morocco

Dylan YachyshenJuly 31, 2020
    • A New Scramble in the Horn of Africa

      A New Scramble in the Horn of Africa The Multipolar Contest for Africa’s Eastern Region

      Stephen PaduanoJuly 27, 2020
    • This photo is for our essay on A New Doctrine? Understanding Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

      A New Doctrine? Understanding Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

      Taigh AdebajoAugust 7, 2020
    • This photo is for our essay on 'The Dynamic Evolution of Russo-African Relations'

      The Dynamic Evolution of Russo-African Relations Africa’s Struggle for Agency in a New Power Tussle

      Chukwudi UkonneAugust 17, 2020

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      Moyosore OrimoloyeFebruary 5, 2020
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      Ore OgunbiyiFebruary 12, 2020
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      Merlin UwalakaFebruary 19, 2020
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      Sada MalumfashiFebruary 26, 2020
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      Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ ṢóyẹmíMarch 4, 2020
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      Dominique OtigbahMarch 11, 2020
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      Kọ́lá Túbọ̀súnApril 1, 2020
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      Saratu AbiolaApril 8, 2020
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      Oreva OlakpeApril 15, 2020

Economic Issues

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    Rethinking African Progress African Development and the Significance of Sacrificial Generations

    Abel GaiyaSeptember 7, 2020
  • Reading China What to Read on Africa-China Relations

    Oreva OlakpeNovember 17, 2018
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    African Tech for African Problems Should We Be Celebrating Big Tech in Africa?

    Emeka Joseph NwankwoSeptember 7, 2019
  • Africa’s Energy Deficit A Crack in Africa’s Geopolitical Foundation

    Otobong IniekeApril 26, 2022
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    ‘Na Money Be Fine Bobo’ The Politics of Poor Taste

    C. S. LozieJanuary 24, 2020
  • What Does Africapitalism Actually Mean? Power, Gender and the Promise of Africapitalism

    Immaculata AbbaJanuary 20, 2022
  • Banking on Women

    Banking on Women Development’s Neoliberal Sexism

    Fadekemi AbiruMay 22, 2020
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    Putting the Cart before the Horse? The Problem with a Currency Union for West Africa

    Oluwaseyi VincentMay 11, 2020
  • ‘We Move’ The Subversive Economy of the Lagos Danfo

    Daniel AgbiboaApril 12, 2022
 

International Issues

  • Myths and Truths Jomo Kenyatta's Hollow Legacy

    Edwin ChegeApril 7, 2021
  • Football

    A Nation in Search of Glory Where is Nigerian Football When We Need it?

    Ayoola OladipupoMarch 13, 2023
  • Why Facebook Has Been Accused of Poor Working Conditions in Kenya

    Tomisin AwosikaFebruary 17, 2022
  • Lessons in Mutualism 50 Years of Sino-Nigerian Relations

    Oreva OlakpeFebruary 10, 2021
  • This photo is for our piece on the nigerianization of crimes in South Africa.

    Phobia or Scapegoatism? The Nigerianization of Crimes in South Africa

    Hakeem OnapajoSeptember 20, 2019
  • This photo is for our essay on 'The Dynamic Evolution of Russo-African Relations'

    The Dynamic Evolution of Russo-African Relations Africa’s Struggle for Agency in a New Power Tussle

    Chukwudi UkonneAugust 17, 2020
  • This photo is for our essay on A New Doctrine? Understanding Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

    A New Doctrine? Understanding Russia and the New Scramble for Africa

    Taigh AdebajoAugust 7, 2020
  • AI

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    Victor FamubodeMay 29, 2020
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    Blessing SimuraMarch 17, 2022
 

Historical Issues

  • Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary

    Chioma EchebiriNovember 22, 2021
  • The Shadow of June 12 June 12, the Left and Nigeria’s Democratic Revolution

    Baba AyeFebruary 14, 2022
  • A Dutch Court Has Acquitted Shell in the Ogoni Nine Trial

    Tomisin AwosikaMarch 24, 2022
 

Political Issues

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    Oluwaseyi SomefunJune 12, 2020
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    Selma Ewurama HammondJune 14, 2021
  • ‘We Just Want to Live’ Youth and the #EndSARS Protests

    Zainab Onuh-YahayaFebruary 15, 2021
  • This photo is for our piece on disinformation in Nigeria

    Disinformation Era The Politics of Information in the Digital Age

    Alhassan Pereira IbrahimSeptember 7, 2019
  • Black Boundaries The Multiple Borderings of African Lives

    Lennon Chido MhishiOctober 14, 2017
  • Shonekan

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    Tomisin AwosikaJanuary 11, 2022
  • Religion Reinvented The Cult of Mao and Societal Change in China's Cultural Revolution

    Kenddrick ChanApril 1, 2018
  • Who Is Running for Governor?

    The RepublicMarch 14, 2023
  • ‘An Unspeakable Act of Violence’ The Victims of the Owo Church Attack

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Social Issues

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    Peace OnafuyeOctober 31, 2022
  • This photo is for our interview with Simukai Chigudu

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    Simukai ChiguduNovember 19, 2021
  • This photo is for our essay on Growth is not enough

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    Ebele MọgọSeptember 30, 2020
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    Marie Rodet, Bakary Camara, Marie-Christine Deleigne and Lotte PelckmansJune 7, 2021
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    Peace Adzo MedieOctober 29, 2021
  • Elizabeth Ben-Iheanacho

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    Elizabeth O. Ben-IheanachoOctober 22, 2021
  • Scotland Has Agreed to Return 17 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

    Tomisin AwosikaApril 19, 2022
  • Kuukuwa Manful

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    Kuukuwa ManfulMarch 10, 2023
  • The Blacker the Berry Race and the Devaluation of Black Lives in America

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    Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Mambidzeni MadzivireJanuary 25, 2021
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    Busayo AkinmojuSeptember 19, 2022
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The Muslim women Aisha Salaudeen has been reading. The Muslim women Aisha Salaudeen has been reading. #OnSite⚡

Multimedia journalist and creator of the I Like Girls podcast, Aisha Salaudeen, believes you can find a story in anything: ‘Every place, thing, person, item, etc., has a story. And you can find a story in anything; you just have to know where to look. Whether or not it’s a good story or a story worth telling is an entirely different conversation.’

This week, we’re bringing back our 2022 interview with Aisha Salaudeen. Salaudeen’s interview features book recommendations for the Ramadan season, and her interesting perspectives on reading and writing.

According to Salaudeen: ‘African journalists are not lazy; they’re faced with a barrage of challenges such as the lack of press freedom, poor salaries, inadequate infrastructure and resources, and an almost non-existent business model for the media. With all of these things, it’s a miracle that our storytelling has evolved to be as crisp as it is today. And I am not listing these challenges to excuse lousy journalism, which by the way, exists all over the world; I’m just providing context.’

Read the full interview at the link in our bio.

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📝: Aisha Salaudeen
🎨: Ojima Abalaka
Today in 2006, Nigeria agreed to extradite former Today in 2006, Nigeria agreed to extradite former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, to the Liberian government. #RxHistory⏳

On 25 March 2006, the Nigerian government agreed to extradite former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, to the Liberian government. Nigeria’s decision came days after Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s newly elected president, requested the ‘closure’ of Taylor’s case.

Taylor plunged Liberia into a 14-year bloody civil war when he seized power from Samuel Doe in 1989. By 2003, when the war ended, 200,000 people had been killed, and more than half of the population became refugees. He was indicted by a UN special court in Sierra Leone in 2003 for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war.

Taylor was granted asylum in Nigeria in 2003, as part of a deal to end 14 years of war that also destabilized neighbouring West African countries. After agreeing to accept Taylor, the Nigerian government rebuffed many attempts to put him on trial before an international court, saying it was awaiting a request from an elected Liberian government.

In 2011, he was found guilty by the Special Court for Sierra Leone of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini
📷: Liberian President Charles Taylor, right, chats to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo during a symbolic bonfire to destroy weapons in Monrovia in July 1999. Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images.
A Brief History of Black Islam from Africa to the A Brief History of Black Islam from Africa to the Diaspora #OnSite⚡

Did you know that an Ethiopian man born in the early seventh century, Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ, was among the first to accept Prophet Muhammad’s teachings?

In this online essay, historian, Kai Mora, traces the trajectory of Black Islam from Africa to the diaspora. Mora reveals that by the second half of the twentieth century, Islam re-emerged as an ideological tool for African Americans fighting within civil rights and Black Power movements.

According to Mora: ‘Though some arguments within the global Black community have rejected Islam as another external interruption to African history and culture, Sheikh Mustafa Briggs, a scholar of African and Afro-diasporic Islamic history, emphasizes the interconnectedness of Blackness and Islam. In an interview with Sheikh Briggs, he explained the importance of understanding Mecca and pilgrimage as just one site and example of Blackness’ instrumentality to the development of the religion.’

Read the full essay at the link in our bio.

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📝: Kai Mora
📷: Artist's impression of the Mali Empire ruler Mansa Musa (r. 1312-1337 CE)/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Today in 1930, the founding president of the Centr Today in 1930, the founding president of the Central African Republic, David Dacko, was born. #RxHistory⏳

On 24 March 1930, the founding president of the Central African Republic (CAR), David Dacko, was born. Dacko presided over the nation’s Declaration of Independence in 1960 and ruled the Central African Republic as a one-party state. He was unable to improve the country’s failing economy, however, and with the CAR facing bankruptcy, he was overthrown by General Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1966.

Dacko regained power and become president for a second time when he ousted Bokassa in 1979. However, his presidency was plagued with numerous problems and he was once again removed by the military.

Dacko's turbulent political career, during which he survived one assassination attempt, mirrored the tumultuous history of the CAR, which has seen ten military coups in recent decades. Upon his death in 2003, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Dacko was ‘a major political figure, who will be remembered for his long service to the people of the Central African Republic.’

David Dacko was an important figure in Central African politics for more than fifty years. Shortly before his death, he attempted to reconcile the CAR’s political leaders and people. He died on 20 November 2003.

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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini
📷: David Dacko, President of the Central African Republic, at the 49th International Labour Conference in 1965. ILO
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The Marginalization of Women-Regents in Present-Da The Marginalization of Women-Regents in Present-Day Yoruba Monarchy #OnSite⚡️

Did you know for women to assume the position of regents in present-day Yoruba culture, they have to discard their female identities and present as men?

In this online essay, writer, Foyin Ejilola, highlights the marginalization of women-regents in Yorubaland as well as the restrictions on their marital, sexual, and procreation rights.

According to Ejilola: 'The imposition of masculinity on these women implies that the ruling position they are assuming is only meant for men and that it is only right that they also become men. If these women who are supposed to be traditional leaders in their communities are being stripped of their identities, it begs the question of whether their persons are respected and honoured at all.'

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