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The guilty verdict on Blaise Compaoré should be celebrated as a landmark victory for democracy and peoples’ movements in Africa.
Avec le dernier coup d'État au Burkina Faso, les décideurs politiques ouest-africains, français et américains sont à la croisée des chemins.
L'Afrique a connu plus de tentatives de coup d'État en 2021 qu’au cours des cinq années précédentes réunies.
The latest coup now presents a fork in the road for West African, French, and American policymakers.
Africa saw more coup attempts in 2021 than the preceding five years combined.
Democracy is messy. It facilitates change, but through an imperfect process of self-correction. This requires patience, engagement, and commitment.
Burkina Faso is still in the throes of chaos decades after the assasination of the charismatic president
The recent poll in the DRC was messy. Nevertheless, it showed that significant change is underway in the country.
In a gloomy year filled, a number of artists with an Afrofuturist perspective gave hope with inspired works of art.
Many African countries continue to creep along a predetermined path that takes them away from any real possibility to defend their sovereignty and meet the needs of their people.
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