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Meet Kenya’s Ex-Pig Farmer Turned Politician, the Only Person to Turn Up for TV debate
With less than a month before Kenya’s anticipated general election, the stage was prepared for a six-person debate at a…
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African countries urged to reform education or risk future revolutions
African countries risk violent revolutions by jobless youth in the future unless they reform their education systems in a manner…
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As the U.S. gets more involved in Somalia, beware these three fallacies
The United States is getting more involved in Somalia, the nation in the Horn of Africa that has been wrestling…
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African citizens have good reasons to be fed up with their politicians
A few months ago, a video in which a street boy blamed bad leadership for Nigeria’s socioeconomic problems, went viral on social…
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West Africa's fight to keep bad medicine off shelves
As West Africa declares war on the market for expired and counterfeit medicines, start-ups are putting quality control in the…
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South Sudan's Women Deminers Brave Danger to Change Their Children's Future
A growing number of women deminers are clearing up bomb and unexploded ordnance – most of them mothers wanting to…
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Throwback: The International Criminal Court and Gaddafi
The request by chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo that arrest warrants for war crimes be issued against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his…
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How Judaism and Christianity Originated From Ancient Egyptian Mystic Sect
Professor Godini G. Darah of Department of English and Literary Studies, Delta State University, Abraka, has argued that Egyptian Mystery…
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‘We ignore copyright development at our peril’ – ARIPO
The Real African|| Baffour Ankomah A 3-day symposium in Harare jointly organised by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) and…
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Decolonizing philosophy
Many philosophers consider their field to be the mother of all disciplines. The popular picture is that philosophy, like a fertile womb, gives birth to…
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The right to ‘eat’
Politics in many parts of Africa is often understood through a metaphor of eating – a point to which Jean-François Bayart drew…
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
A larger-than-life bronze bust of Christopher Columbus surveys Pueblo, Colorado, from atop a 15-foot limestone column. The monument, designed by…
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Rwanda: More Evidence Pins France On Genocide
RECENT reports in the French media have been awash with damning evidence about France’s complicity in the 1994 Genocide against…
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“Satan is dead, I have killed him”, South Africa’s Prophet Mboro declares
South Africa-based cleric, Prophet Mboro has claimed that he went to hell and killed Satan. On a post that was…
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Africa’s presidents keep going abroad for medical treatment rather than fixing healthcare at home
For much of the past week, Nigeria’s politics has been dominated by a message by president Muhammadu Buhari. But it…
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