In April 2024, when temperatures in South Sudan spiked to a searing 45°C (113°F), 17-year-old Siama missed two weeks of school. Inside her classroom, where air conditioning was a non-existent…
Put two world maps side by side and ask a child which continent looks bigger. On one, Greenland appears almost as large as Africa. On the other, Africa stretches across…
When developing democracies struggle with institutional legitimacy, they increasingly turn to technological solutions. The rationale is elegant in its simplicity: human beings are partisan, corruptible, and inefficient; algorithms and digital…
When we look at the escalating crisis in Nigeria today, we are witnessing a textbook failure of global governance. There is a comfortable narrative that circulates in Western diplomatic circles:…
When we look at how the international community responds to human suffering, we often like to believe that values human rights, self-determination, the rule of law drive foreign policy. But…
Here is a question we should all be thinking about: where will the future of democracy actually be decided? Most Western observers look to the usual suspects polarization in Washington,…
For more than three decades, Atiku Abubakar has remained one of the most persistent figures in Nigeria’s presidential politics. From his years as vice president between 1999 and 2007 to…
One of Nigeria’s longest-running constitutional dissensions has been revived by the country’s deteriorating security situation: should states be permitted to create their own police forces? The case for state police…
For an African developer striving to build the next breakthrough artificial intelligence product, the most frustrating obstacle isn’t writing the algorithm. It is keeping the computer running. A startup can…
Despite producing its strongest collective showing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, African football once again fell short of breaking into the semi-finals. The tournament laid bare a harsh reality:…