West Africa

A LIBRARY BURNS TO THE GROUND History suffers a great loss with the death of each elder in a community, but when a woman dies, it is a whole school that burns to the ground. […]

I read Peter Mawunyo Dzidza’s version of the “settled history” of interethnic relations between Akans and Ewes, titled “Professor Mike Ocquaye Worsens The NPP’s Plight” (Modernghana.com 4/16/14), with no small measure of amusement. One, because […]

Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from the labour force perpetuate generational cycles of poverty, it also […]

Communication interventions in Nigeria have proven to be a vital part of the polio eradication effort. The success of the polio communication efforts can be verified by the 12% reduction in the number of missed […]

Seven Greenpeace International activists peacefully demonstrated in a Mauritian port on Sunday against a South Korean vessel accused of unlawful fishing in West African waters, demanding the Seoul government order the ship’s recall. The activists […]

At long last, there is something on the horizon to assure us that the decades-long Somali crisis will be tackled to restore sanity to the Horn of Africa and relieve the world of a major […]

Despite the amnesty deal offered to Niger Delta militants in 2009, a combination of greed and complex, unaddressed grievances could result in a dramatic return of instability to the region. One of the most prominent […]