Tag Archives: Nigeria
13
Apr
(The Root) NY Valedictorian Is Celebrating Her Acceptance to All 8 Ivy League Schools
BY: YESHA CALLAHAN
Posted: April 5 2016 9:26 AM
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna
VIDEO SCREENSHOT
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, a hig...
23
Feb
(BuzzFeed) Meet The Women Behind Nigeria’s Most Subversive Novellas
By Kate Bubacz, Senior Photo Editor, News and Monica Mark, BuzzFeed News World Correspondent
Posted on Feb. 17, 2016, at 3:43 p.m.
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23
Feb
(LA Times) Why a congresswoman from Los Angeles is talking about Africa
By Sarah D. Wire Contact Reporter
It’s 8 a.m., Congress isn't in session and Washington’s roads are icy, but more than 100 ambas...
20
Jan
(TIME) Corruption in Military Defense Spending Could Be Behind Rise in Africa Terror Attacks
Aryn Baker @arynebaker Jan. 18, 2016
A series of recent terror attacks across Africa have raised fears of a new wave of extremist vi...
02
Jan
(All Africa) 10 Things to Watch in Africa in 2016
ANALYSIS
By Nick Branson and Jamie Hitchen
Staying Power: Referenda in the Republic of Congo and Rwanda have paved the way fo...
02
Jan
(NYT) Jihadists Deepen Collaboration in North Africa
By CARLOTTA GALL JAN. 1, 2016
SAHARA DESERT, Niger — A group of light armored vehicles skated over the moonscape o...
29
Dec
(Globe and Mail) Africa’s new brooms clean house
ROBERT ROTBERG | Special to The Globe and Mail | Published Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015 8:00AM EST
Robert Rotberg is foundin...
22
Dec
(Newsweek) The Real Africa, Through the Lens of African Photographers
By Mirren Gidda On 12/22/15 at 2:00 AM
Africa has long been irresistible to art photographers. The diversity of its 54 nations, it...
16
Dec
(Face2Face Africa) Obama Appoints Adewale Adeyemo as Deputy National Security Adviser
16 December 2015 | By Face2Face Africa Staff
U.S. President Barack Obama has named Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo his deputy national secur...
15
Dec
(The Economist) For most urban Africans, owning anything other than a slum home is out of reach
LAGOS, the congested commercial capital of Nigeria, has a population variously estimated at anything from 12m-21m. But what is certain ...