Favour Enyosa

Imagine a five-year-old walking into a classroom for the first time. At home, the child speaks Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kiswahili, Wolof or another African language. Then the teacher starts the lesson—in a completely different language. Well for millions of African children, this is everyday reality which raises a...

Torched cars, looted foreign-owned shops and a chased-out Somali shopkeeper. Pretoria says the violence was triggered by a deliberate lie about a July Constitutional Court judgment on asylum seekers — and that is a more interesting claim than it sounds.  A Narrow Judgment, a Wide Lie: South Africa's...

"There are no conditions for holding the elections." Prime Minister Ilídio Vieira Té conceded missed candidate deadlines and unheld party congresses — while the former president most likely to challenge the junta has been barred from coming home. No Date, No Candidate, No Pretext Left: What Guinea-Bissau's Election...