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A vendor hawks second-hand mobile phones at the sprawling Kibera slum, one of the largest and poorest slums in Africa, near Kenya's capital Nairobi August 26, 2011. (Noor Khamis/Courtesy Reuters)
Residents try to get into a bus at the bus station of Adjame in Abidjan March 20, 2011. (Luc Gnago/Courtesy Reuters)
On Africa in Transition, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria signals the most important political, security, and social developments occurring in sub-Saharan Africa.
Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity are powerful forces in sub-Saharan politics. So, too, is the belief in prophecy and sorcery. In…
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reviewed Nigerian economic issues, notably, that the anticipated…
This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The…
An “urban legend” widely believed in Nigeria is that the United States government predicts that the country will breakup in…
Former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell explores Nigeria's postcolonial history and examines the events and conditions that have carried this troubled giant to the edge.
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