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Africa's democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
The US needs to review whether a security agenda based on US priorities will solve problems in sub-Saharan Africa.
In some West African communities, age and magico-religious beliefs have a huge role to play in a woman's independence.
Too many African countries believe Beijing when they are told in negotiations that they must take it or leave it.
Trokosi is an ancient practice in West Africa where virgin girls, some as young as six are sent as slaves to make amends for wrongs committed by their families.
It's one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
Not enough credit is given to the agency African governments have in their dealings with China.
A lighting revolution is underway across Africa that's occurred largely without government or donor involvement.
Female teachers can act as role models who enhance girls’ motivation and learning outcomes.
Universities play a major role in procuring the human and intellectual resources needed for fulfilling the various goals of the UN's Agenda 2030.
The world's media, which has in the past found Zambia uninteresting, are suddenly paying more attention to the impoverished nation, for all the wrong reasons.
The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa's legacies of underdevelopment.
In Benin the differences between male and female farmers are their specific gender productive and reproductive roles, norms and identity.
West African health systems were weak before the IMF got involved. Sadly, the policy reforms demanded by the IMF in exchange for loans have undermined governments' ability to repair these problems.
Much of academic philosophy, even on the African continent, is openly and unashamedly in love with the idea of the West as destiny.
Cultural imperialism and looting were part and parcel of the colonial project. Today, some argue this legacy continues. But in a globalised society, where does borrowing end and appropriation begin?
Months after an inconclusive election, Croatia has at last picked an almost unknown figure to be its new prime minister: Tihomir Orešković, chief financial officer of a Canadian generic pharmaceutical…
Porto Novo in Benin, Rouen in France and Da Nang in Vietnam are taking steps to mitigate the harsh effects of climate change, which will hit them hard if they don't.
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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