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I checked my Facebook feed this morning, Saturday, August 3rd, 2019, like I normally do almost every morning and I believe one of my greatest fear—or should I say positive anticipation—for Nigeria may have just been …
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Almost two months after the removal of former Sudanese leader, Omar al-Bashir, political efforts to move the country forward is still at a deadly stalemate. The horrific attack by the Sudanese military on protesters last Monday is only one of …
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After former dictator, Omar Al-Bashir, was disgracefully thrown out of the office on April 11 after 30 years in power, Sudanese are not showing any signs of relaxing their demands for democracy. The military has since taken charge and declared …
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Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Fellow at Cato Institute, recently released the latest edition of the Misery Index. The index rank countries from happiest to most miserable. According to …
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Nigeria’s presidential election is only a few weeks away and the country has already found itself in a deep constitutional crisis. The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, was recently arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on charges …
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A while ago, CNN reported about a Susu club—an old African savings group—that is helping women in rural Senegal generate capital for businesses and finance for their family needs. It also highlights how a private loan provider uses the history …
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In the last few months, policymakers and economists have raced to find answers to the many reasons why African countries continue to poorly perform according to some development reports. Such inquiries are necessary considering these reports does not only …
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As I noted in my previous article – an inquiry into the historical claims of communism in Africa – many medieval African societies had structures that proved otherwise. We know of some societies that allowed for the representation of individual …
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The absence of technically organized ideologies in traditional African societies made several historians resolve that pre-colonial Africa had no clear patterns that governed behavior except the unearthing of some ancestral practices. Historians like George Dalton identified the inability of Western …
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Last week, President of the World Bank Group (WBG), Jim Yong Kim, conceded his organisation has wrongly advised African governments over the years about the ideal pathway to industrialisation. He noted that emphasising hard infrastructures like road, rails and energy …
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