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EDITORIAL
Isah Sani examines social media use, misinformation, online polarization and youth digital resilience in Abuja, Nigeria, drawing from his unpublished study involving 336 valid respondents.
ART & CULTURE
There are stories that speak — and then there are stories that sing. West Africa’s literary tradition belongs firmly in the latter category. Every line, every rhythm, carries the cadence of the continent’s oldest griots — storytellers who kept memory alive long before ink met paper. Across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these voices have […]
DEVELOPMENT
With almost 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa still lacking electricity, Mission 300 has become the region’s most closely watched effort to close the access gap by connecting 300 million people by 2030. The initiative, led jointly by the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank Group, targets 250 million connections via the World Bank and 50 million via […]
AFRICA
When Ousmane Dembélé was announced as the winner of the 2025 Ballon d’Or, it marked not just a personal triumph for the Paris Saint-Germain forward but also a symbolic moment for Africa and its diaspora. The 28-year-old, who contributed 35 goals and 16 assists in PSG’s treble-winning campaign, became the first French player of his generation to lift […]
AFRICA
When Ousmane Dembélé was announced as the winner of the 2025 Ballon d’Or, it marked not just a personal triumph for the Paris Saint-Germain forward but also a symbolic moment for Africa and its diaspora. The 28-year-old, who contributed 35 goals and 16 assists in PSG’s treble-winning campaign, became the first French player of his generation to lift […]