France’s financial control over the African nations is a relic of a shady past. Only African initiatives imagined and ...

Six days after the October 1, 1960 independence of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa stood before the United Nations, UN. The historical mission of Nigeria ...

Names are symbolic and significant. In fact, in Yorubaland (home to one of Nigeria's dominant tribes), names are considered powerful enough to shape the trajectory of one’s life. Colonial rule swept ...

Mozambican President Daniel Chapo calls for unity and strengthened economic cooperation between African countries to achieve ...

As, one by one, the African nations gained their independence in the middle of the twentieth century, building programs were central to the process of nation-building. In several of those countries, ...

In a rapidly fracturing world, regional integration could be a source of resilience for the African continent. They persist to this day. Based on my research over more than three decades of work on ...

In 2017 Claudio Silva, who a few years earlier returned to Angola after growing up in America, was optimistic that the country of his birth was turning a corner. That year João Lourenço became ...

For too long, Africa’s agency has been exercised defensively: managing expectations, preserving stability, reacting to external scripts. The continent has copied political systems from other countries ...