Africa

  • When the world birthed its 193rd nation last year, brothers and sisters of the newborn state were unabashedly optimistic that a patch of land that has known armed conflicts at every turn in its history could finally see some daylight of sustained peace and progress. Decades of death, displacement, famine, etc had led some to

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  • Nigeria’s Rubicon

    There used to be a time when the thought of a Nigerian dying for anything outside of self-interest would assure the offending mind a bed in the local psychiatric unit. And, even then, on the premise of self-interest, it was still a reckless position for any human being to take: Which was why news of

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