West Africa’s new regional peacekeeping force, explained
ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, engages in more than just economic activities. How will it implement the new initiative?
In Women’s History Month, these African groups can offer lessons to feminists everywhere
What is gender equality, exactly — and who gets to define what it should look like?
Pro-government groups helped quash Nigeria’s protests last year. Who’s really behind these groups?
Since 2015, the groups have staged hundreds of news conferences to praise government officials
Seven years ago, #BringBackOurGirls was a global campaign. What happened?
A compelling book details the story of Nigeria’s kidnapped Chibok girls
Covid-19 is accelerating multilateralism in Africa
The African Union helped spearhead a coordinated response to the pandemic.
The Trump administration is curtailing visas for Chinese scientists. That could backfire.
Excluding foreign researchers and students hurts U.S. innovation — and coronavirus collaboration
The price of oil was actually negative last week. What happens next?
Cheap oil is causing pain from Texas to Nigeria.
What’s behind South Africa’s xenophobic violence in 2019?
Violence against immigrants has sparked a diplomatic crisis
How does a woman run for office in Nigeria? The answer’s in ‘Love Does Not Win Elections.’
It’s a sharp, witty and often infuriating narrative of how patronage politics, sexism and ethnicity can confound candidates.