Africa
US will soon redeploy troops in Somalia: the mission and key goals
US troops in Djibouti in 2003 on a mission to watch terrorist groups in countries that include Somalia. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty…
Nigeria
From Nigeria to the world: Afrobeats is having a global moment
Tems performs in London in 2021. Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage Garhe Osiebe, Rhodes University Another Grammy Awards season and there is a…
Africa
The story of how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images John M. Mugane, Harvard University Once just an obscure island dialect of an…
Opinion
We Go Harder Next Year: The Problem with Resolutions
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash By Aniemeke Isioma Prisca We Go Harder Next Year: The Problem with Resolutions Change is a…
Nigeria
Industrial policy paved the way for Dangote’s empire. Why it didn’t deliver for all Nigerians
Aliko Dangote leaves the French Elysee presidential palace after a meeting with the president in 2016. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images…
Opinion
What a Teen to be Alive
Photo by Yingchou Han on Unsplash By Aniemeke Isioma Prisca "You" refers to teenagers and youths. Being a teenager (youth) is quite…
Nigeria
Can We Stop to Catch Our Breaths?
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash By Aniemeke Isioma Prisca Twentieth of October 2020 You carry army go kill many youth…
Nigeria
Buhari: The Messiah Who Will Not Save Nigeria
Bayo Omoboriowo, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Shamusudeen Kareem The Yorubas have a saying that if a child would…
Nigeria
Nigeria's university grading system; the hack, the stories and the success
By Yusuf Akinyemi When I got into the university, I knew I wanted to graduate with a second class (Upper Division) commonly…
Nigeria
Tinubu, 2023 Presidential Election, and Impending National Disaster
By Shamsudeen Kareem "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," is a line from "The Second Coming" written by the Romantic poet,…