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Robert Bates, the Harvard Professor of African Political Economy, in his 1981 classic “Markets and States in Tropical Africa”, in...
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The new president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Nigeria’s Akinwunmi Adesina, recently stated his belief that Africa has no...
Europe is facing the greatest movement of refugees since the Second World War. Though there has been an outpouring of...
There are 1.8 billion young people (males and females between the ages of 10 and 24) in the world today,...
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy stirred America and the world with these words: “I believe that this nation...
The new federal administration of President Muhammadu Buhari which was inaugurated on May 29, 2015 with the mantra of ‘change’...
For most reasonable people, the right of anyone suffering from an illness to be treated in a clinically appropriate and...
On March 2, 2013, The Economist of London, arguably the world’s most influential magazine, published a special issue on Africa,...