The Africa Report — July-August 2017
2019 Nigeria – history of a struggle foretold T hereisplentyofnoiseinNigeria:clashes between communities in the Middle Belt; Del ...
forced out. Sani Abacha, who had also taken part in the 1966 coups, took power for himself. Abacha then died in 1998, and Abduls ...
Viewed together, the estimated 170 million Africans that form the African Union’s ‘sixth region’ represent a powerhouse that cou ...
M ention Lupita Nyong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Isha Sesay or David Adjaye, and most Africans will beam with pride. These mov ...
I n 2009, I found myself in Galway, a lively city with a strong bohemian vibe on Ireland’s west coast. It was not a place in whi ...
F rom the dusty streets of Soweto to the bright lights of New York City... How did a relatively unknown comedian from Johannesbu ...
But the tidal wave has come in the past two decades of the crisis. Zimbabwe is known for its extreme figures and statistics, led ...
The precise size of the diaspora is unknown. To those compiling this in- formation, the question of how many Zimbabweans are ent ...
fraudulent use of the voters' roll, which still includes Zimbabweans who have left the country. There is a weird paradox here: t ...
they were simply in search of better economic opportunities. Will the diasporans return to Zimbabwe if the economy improves? Zim ...
O nabrightmorninginJune, Nakuru’smatatustand is teeming with dozens of waiting minibuses and hawkers selling phone credit,socksa ...
Voter registration in Kibera, one of the worst-hit places for post-election violence in 2008 of a lifetime THOMASMUKOYA/REUTERS ...
year. “People in Kibera are not ready to trust the result,” Ambasa says. Politiciansalsopointtohightensions. “Weaspoliticalparti ...
The case for a manual backup was built on failures of biometric systems, most infamously during Nigeria’s 2015 elections, when a ...
coalition.Somepoliticiansarejockey- ingforpositioninthe2022presidential race.Othershavebecomeindependent candidates,causingheada ...
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S nowfall on the dis- tant mountains in Lesotho brought a veil of rain, turning the roads in this KwaZulu-Natal village to mud. ...
podium without greeting them. And she prefaced her remarks by saying that she would not answer any questions on land and on Pres ...
SomesuspectedthatDlamini-Zuma’s stint at the AU was more about internal SouthAfricanpoliticsandherhusband’s efforts to build a f ...
theANCWomen’sLeagueat herfarewelldinnerattheAU in January: “It’s very impor- tant for women to be mayors, to be ministers, to be ...
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