By ANITA KNIGHT WHAT does it take to build a fairer world order? For decades, Africa has asked this question while struggling under global systems designed without its voice. Now, with China’s launch of the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), the conversation has returned with urgency — and Nigeria is uniquely placed to answer. At the […]
By EMMANUELLA NDUONOFIT THE death of dictators has always carried with it a strange relief, like a soothing balm on a festering wound. Their demise often feels like a long-awaited exhale for those who lived under their cruelty. Take Saddam Hussein. His death sentence stirred outrage from some quarters—Syria denounced it, Hamas called it political, […]
SOMEONE once told me some people are born without feeling — “spies of humanity,” they called them — those who live off others with smiles that hide greed. Think of the faces who run pension treasuries, who siphon what should keep the old and infirm secure. If such people are the ones vying to lead […]
By HALIMA TAKWAS TEN years after Boko Haram’s mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok, Borno State, at least 91 girls remain missing or in captivity, according to a damning new report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The committee’s findings, released after a confidential two-week mission to Nigeria […]
FROM Paris to Kathmandu to Washington, a troubling pattern has emerged: citizens rising against governments they no longer trust. The anger is global, the grievances familiar—economic hardship, political arrogance, widening inequality, and leadership failures. For African leaders, these events are not distant crises but urgent warnings. A World on EdgeFrance, the land of revolutions, is […]
NIGERIA may be a Black African country, but it often operates under the shadow of white supremacist values. Colonialism may have formally ended decades ago, yet its residue lingers in the collective psyche. The British did not just draw borders and build institutions; they implanted a belief system that equated whiteness with authority, competence, and […]
By AUGUSTUS ISICHEI FOR nearly a century, the Commonwealth Games have been staged on continents far from Africa. From Hamilton, Canada, in 1930, to Birmingham, UK, in 2022, the Games have become a global celebration of sport — yet Africa, home to some of the world’s most passionate athletes and fans, has never played host. […]
By Pearl Osibu CONVERSATIONS about racism in America often stumble on a familiar refrain: “He was racist, but…” That qualifier erases the depth of systemic injustice. Racism is not abstract—it fractures families through over-policing, mass incarceration, and the erasure of dignity. Black men are disproportionately jailed, their children growing up fatherless, caught in cycles of […]
ACCRA is on the cusp of a defining moment. From 16 to 20 September 2025, Silverbird Cinema at Accra Mall plans to host an Israeli Film Festival—a slick cultural showcase presented as harmless art, but in truth, a weapon of propaganda for a regime accused of genocide and apartheid. Nearly 400 organisations and individuals—a coalition […]
THE Central African Republic (CAR) is entering a decisive period ahead of its December 2025 general elections, with President Faustin-Archange Touadéra seemingly in a position of strength. Yet beneath the veneer of stability lies a troubling question: has the country’s reliance on foreign support created a false sense of security? Since his controversial re-election in […]