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7 Books That Explain Why Your Parents Are the Way They Are

Ijapa O·September 7, 2025

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books to that will explain why your parents are the way they are. From an extended letter that details a mother’s decision to stay in her marriage after her husband takes a second wife to a novel about a renowned chef who chooses her career over her daughter, the books on this list will help you see your parents in a new light and begin to understand them. Read More...

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The Republic·August 24, 2025

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An African Manual for Debugging Empire

Wale Lawal·August 24, 2025

Our latest issue, An African Manual for Debugging Empire, confronts the erasure of Africans in global tech debates and highlights the ways the continent is actively shaping, contesting and redefining the futures of AI. Read More...

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Africa’s Role in the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Dawn Chinagorom-Abiakalam·August 24, 2025

As artificial intelligence transforms global systems, Africa remains sidelined in its design; even as its labour and resources power the very infrastructure that makes AI possible. The emergence of AI on the continent raises urgent questions about equity, inclusion and how to ensure Africans benefit from the technologies they help sustain. Read More...

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Saving Nigeria, the Piggyvest Way

Oyindamola Depo-Oyedokun·August 24, 2025

In today’s digital age, history-making lightbulb moments don’t always strike in boardrooms or after soul-searching mountain hikes. Sometimes, they unfold casually on the X timeline. Piggyvest, now one of Africa’s leading wealth management platforms, began exactly with that: a tweet, a conversation and a simple idea that would quickly revolutionize Nigeria’s fintech industry. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria vol9-no3

The Geopolitics of Digital Technology in Africa

Otobong Inieke·August 24, 2025

As the world leans into the fourth industrial revolution, Africa has become a frontier for the geopolitical power play of China and the United States. Amid this, African governments must take control of their digital development or end up as pawns, again. Read More...

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‘Who Do We Imagine AI Is Built By and Built For?’

Wale Lawal·August 24, 2025

With AI proponents promising to ‘save’ Africa, Nanjala Nyabola asks an urgent question: what happens when a continent’s future is outsourced to someone else’s imagination? We discuss the politics of technology, the myth of the ‘cloud’, and why the next digital revolution must begin with African women. Read More...

August/September 2025 Interviews Kenya vol9-no3

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Nelson Chukwu John·August 24, 2025

‘I woke up one day and I realized that I simply despised the smallness that life here hoists on everyone. Small loves, big needs met by small resources, small hopes quashed by gigantic misdeeds, small joys flickering off with each new leaving.’ Read More...

August/September 2025 Fiction vol9-no3

Mgbeojikwe

Ani Kayode Somtochukwu·August 24, 2025

‘Jikwe, why did you not marry?’ Okenwa asks, his gaze holding Mgbeojikwe’s. ‘What were you thinking?’ … ‘I could have married you,’ he says, adjusting in his seat, ‘In a different world.’ Read More...

August/September 2025 Fiction vol9-no3

The Absence of Stains

Yasmine Zohdi·August 24, 2025

‘Mariam doesn’t know whether Dina’s a virgin, but if she were in her place, she now thinks—under the threat of her family finding out that she wasn’t—she would say she had been raped. To them, that would be better than knowing she had sinned willingly.’ Read More...

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