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Africa: The Unsettled Continent
We live in a time of great upheaval worldwide, which according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has resulted in 79.5 million people displaced – the highest recorded number in history. The agency reports that 48 million...
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Africa’s Youthful Future
Africa is the continent where life began and spread across the world, but despite being the mother of all living, it also is the youngest continent in terms of population. Sixty percent of Africans are under 25, and in less than a decade from now...
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Zambia’s Surprise Election
Prior to the August 12 election in Zambia, there were widespread fears that then-President Edgar Lungu would follow the playbook of some other Africa leaders (and those outside the continent) and prevent his main opponent Hakainde Hichilema from...
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Guinea Joins the Coup Parade
When Alpha Condé won his first election in 2010, it was the first time since Guinea-Conakry’s independence in 1958 since then that there had been a democratic election, and it caused at least some optimism about the country moving in the right...
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The Hell for Christians in Nigeria
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country, with an estimated 219,463,862 inhabitants. There are more than 250 ethnic groups. Muslims comprise 53.5 percent of the Nigerian people, and Christians of all sects comprise 45.9 percent. One would...
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What Africans Don’t Understand About U.S. Policy
I have been blessed in my life to know Africans from a young age and have strong, longstanding friendships with African men and women. From them, I have learned a lot about how African people think and how they behave. This has been invaluable for...
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