International Affairs
Why Is There a Fuel Scarcity in Nigeria?
Since 04 February 2022, residents in Lagos have reported more-than-usual road traffic driven by fuel scarcity. The lack of fuel has generated long queues at filling stations across Lagos and other cities. Read more. Read More...
Senegal Has Won the AFCON for the First Time Ever
Senegal has won the AFCON 2021 after their left winger, Sadio Mane, scored the winning goal in a 4-2 penalty shootout. Read more. Read More...
Nigeria Has Announced a New Policy to Reduce its Fertility Rate
On 03 February 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari announced the revised National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development. Read more. Read More...
Amnesty International Has Accused Israel of Apartheid
On 01 February 2022, Amnesty International accused Israel of maintaining a ‘cruel system of domination’ over Palestinians. Read more. Read More...
What’s Happening in Burkina Faso?
On 24 January, Burkina Faso’s army announced on national television that it had ousted the country’s president, Roch Kaboré, in a coup. Read more. Read More...
What’s Happening in Mali?
On 14 January, thousands of Malians took to the streets to protest the sanctions imposed by the leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over delayed elections. Read more. Read More...
Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa
Kwame Nkrumah envisioned pan-Africanism as a means of uniting and uplifting Africans across Africa and the diaspora but was ousted in 1966 before achieving his aim. Read more. Read More...
Students in the Struggle for Kenyan Democracy A Brief History of University Student Activism in Kenya
Student activism in Kenya is a form of protest and resistance against oppression. At its very heart, it is also a demonstration of leadership and the capacity for mass mobilization. Read more. Read More...
Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary
Seretse Khama made an usual mark in the arena of politics in southern Africa, but his role in Botswana’s road to independence is unheralded history. Read more. Read More...
Lessons of Discord The Repressive Dimensions of Pan-African Nationalism
Pan-Africanist political organization in the 1950s and 1960s played a mutually reinforcing role in driving the advocacy that ended both colonial rule in Africa and legal racial discrimination in the American South. Read more. Read More...
