Ama Diaka

‘Read With Curiosity, Not Conclusion’ Ama Asantewa Diaka’s First Draft

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With her latest short story collection, Ghanaian poet and author of Someone Birthed Them Broken, Ama Asantewa Diaka, set out to document the lives of contemporary youth in Ghana: ‘I wanted to create something that future youths could look back on—something they could hold up against their own lives and say, “This is where we came from. This is what it was like.”’ Read More...
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A collage of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, Mauritania's president.

Ghazouani at the Helm

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While domestic challenges to Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s legitimacy dimmed soon after he was re-elected as Mauritanian president last year, his attempt to balance competing external pressures risks reigniting the social tensions that underpinned the original mobilizations against his re-election. Read More...
June/July 2025Mauritania