T-shirts bearing the slogan “Tinubu Must Go!” — a reference to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu — are at the center of an escalating crackdown on dissent in Nigeria’s vast north.
Author: Chukwu Godlove
Kenya is grappling with its first ever outbreak of Ebola, a disease which neighbouring countries, such as Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, are used to dealing with.
Urban Africa is constantly finding ways to thicken urban life with new resourcefulness: from makeshift maker labs to the vast associations of traders with their own home-grown, expansive financial systems—where remittances circulate alongside locally generated credit and savings—to self-generated webs of electricity and water provisioning under the radar, to neighborhood investments in shared containers of…
A Kenyan judge has started to deliver a verdict in a mass murder case involving doomsday preacher Paul Mackenzie.
An aspirant for NDC Ashanti Regional Organizer, Alfa Justice, is on a campaign poster holding a pump‑action gun, dressed in military uniform, face cap, and dark shades. Under his boots, the caption reads: “To Protect Ballots, Boxes and Votes for 2028.”
The Christian Council of Ghana has called for constitutional reforms to protect the religious identity of mission-founded schools while safeguarding students’ freedom of religion, as debate intensifies over how faith-based institutions should operate with government support.
In the haze of el ghorba—the strangeness and alienation of living abroad—I gravitate toward the Maghrebi diaspora. For a moment, we relax our tongues from the unnatural twists of Arabic dialects foreign to us and speak in the Maghrebi darijas. Desperate to latch onto whatever whispers of home exist elsewhere, we claim that we are…
One of Nigeria’s most popular gospel singers, Olayemi Bayonile Bolaji, known as Toluwanisings, has died, his family has announced.
Lagos, Nigeria – As Israelis prepare to vote on October 27, African governments from Pretoria to Rabat are weighing what the result could mean for their own foreign and domestic policies.
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s democratic process have faulted political parties over their lack of clear ideological direction and the exclusion of women and other underrepresented groups from decision-making.
