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The kind of framing of Africa that is prevalent betrays a tendency to homogenise the continent, as if geography and politics are identical.

A new president will be sworn in on May 29, but Nigerians are still reeling from an election that weaponized tribal prejudice.

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The unexpected pardon last week of two leading politicians convicted earlier on charges of corruption has brought renewed focus on Nigeria’s flailing anticorruption drive. Following a meeting of the country’s Council of State, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, governors respectively of the central and northeastern states of Plateau and Taraba from 1997 to 2007 were pardoned along with 157 other convicts.

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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 20 December 2020 Just some few weeks ago, the global community of Africanists and African scholars woke to the sad news of the demise of world-renowned scholar, Peter Ekeh. There is no serious scholar of African studies, or even African-American Studies who has not heard of Ekeh; or even more, who has not read some of Ekeh’s defining intellectual contributions to the understanding of postcolonial Africa. When in 1975, Peter Ekeh wrote and published “Colon...