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New ECOWAS President Commits to Strengthening Regional Unity and AES Cooperation
Birame Diop, the new President of ECOWAS, has pledged to enhance cohesion within the community and strengthen ties with the Alliance of Sahel States during his inaugural address in Abuja.
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Dressing, Addressing, and Redressing Nigeria’s Lawyers and Judges. By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first African-owned US-based professional newspaper published on the…
USAfrica: The King and the Clerics. By Chidi Amuta
Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the…
Neutralizing South Africa’s xenophobic excesses. By Chidi Amuta
Special to USAfricaonline.com, the first African-owned, U.S.-based newspaper on the internet and USAfrica magazine (Houston)…
Gowon’s book of barefaced lies. By Chuks Iloegbunam
Iloegbunam, author of the acclaimed book, “Ironsi: Nigeria, The Army, Power And Politics”, is a…
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Is District 9 movie a fitting metaphor for the ugliness of Nigeria?
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African Leaders speak at U.S.-Africa Business Summit
Rwandan President Paul Kagame — whose government has been voted the top world reformer in the recently published World Bank…
Tunisia ranked first in North Africa on good governance
The third annual report published by the Kennedy School of Governance which is part of Harvard’s school of political sciences,…
Literature, Culture and Development: The African Experience
In all of these essays and more, we can readily discern a tentative, but increasingly confident approach towards a definitive…
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Ghana vs South Africa lock horns on Tuesday in FIFA Under-20 World Cup; certain an African team will qualify for Quarter…
Pope launches synod on Africa’s issues until Oct 25
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