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Biography: – The Outstanding Professor P.L.O. Lumumba

February 19, 2023 no comments

Prof. PLO Lumumba whose full name is Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba was born on 17th July 1962 and raised in Usenge, a little village at Lake Victoria KENYA. Named after an African hero of that time, Pa...

Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa’s deputy president: what ...

February 19, 2023 no comments

Paul Mashatile was voted ANC deputy president in December 2022. Deaan Vivier/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape South Africa is set to have a new deputy...

Nigerian elections: 5 major challenges facing the country’s next presi...

February 6, 2023 no comments

Nigeria’s next President must unite Nigerians across party, religious and ethnic faultlines. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Al Chukwuma Okoli, Federal University Lafia Nigerians will soon dete...

Who invented jollof rice? Senegal beats Ghana and Nigeria to the title...

January 29, 2023 no comments

Jollof rice (called Ceebu jën in Senegal according to the Wolof spelling). Photo Getty Images. Ceef Fatima Fall Niang, Université Gaston Berger The authorship – and therefore origins – of jollof rice...

Lesotho’s election brought change. Six things needed to promote peace ...

November 7, 2022 no comments

Outgoing Lesotho prime minister Moeketsi Majoro, right, hands over the national flag as the symbol of passing power to his successor, Sam Ntsokoane Matekane, on 28 October 2022. Molise Molise/AFP via...

Netanyahu on track to win in Israeli election – but there are many cha...

November 7, 2022 no comments

Abir Sultan/EPA/AAP Ran Porat, Monash University More than 71% of Israel’s 6.5 million eligible voters, a 20-year high, cast their votes in Israel’s November 1 elections. This is the fifth Israeli el...

Africa in space: continent has a lot to gain, but proper plans must be...

November 2, 2022 no comments

iStock / Getty Images Plus Etim Offiong, Obafemi Awolowo University Every year in October nearly 100 countries organise activities to mark World Space Week. The theme this year is space and sustainab...

The scourge of sexual violence in West Africa, unveiled

November 2, 2022 no comments

Respectively 60.6% and 62% of women in Liberia and Sierra Leone have experienced at least one act of sexual violence in their life. IStock Adama Ouedraogo, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Clair...

Poor quality leadership and weak institutions has led to poor governan...

November 2, 2022 no comments

Regular elections have not translated to development in Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Abiodun Fatai, PhD, Lagos State University Since gaining independence on 1 October 1960, Nigeria...

Legal sex work in South Africa won’t create new problems, just help so...

November 2, 2022 no comments

Activists hold placards as they call for the decriminalisation of prostitution. MATTHEW KAY/AFP via Getty Images Rinda Botha, University of the Free State South Africa’s post apartheid government has...

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