The United Nations has just done something that may appear almost triconsider the map through which it represents itself. There are no armies involved, no borders being redrawn, no territory being transferred from one sovereign state to another. Yet beneath what looks like an obscure cartographic decision lies a question far larger than geography:
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Kwangu Liwewe AgyeiKwangu Liwewe Agyei is Africa Editor at New Lines magazine August 12, 2026 Share
As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man is not a free man.” This truth conveniently haunts our troubled polity, where politicians tend to demand absolute electoral loyalty while offering nothing in return. But, again, can a hungry populace give their best while fending for themselves in a vacuum, and can one harvest where…
