John O. Ifediora* At 2:30AM on February 16 few hours before polling stations were scheduled to open, Mr...

Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw.* YOLA, Nigeria—The battle began with two small drones buzzing over a base where more than 500 Nigerian troops guarded the shores of Lake Chad...

John O. Ifediora. Editorial Commentary. In the 2015 presidential election the editorial board of this council unanimously endorsed candidate Muhammadu Buhari in a piece entitled “It is Time!” The endorsement of his candidacy then was not so much on the belief that his credentials prepared him to run the country as on the assumption that he posed a lesser danger of damage to the country’s welfare than his incumbent opponent, Goodluck Jonathan...

Melvin Foote*. Without question Africa is a continent that is very much on the move towards democratic governance...

The Economist* An old-fashioned counter-insurgency strategy is failing. A wild-eyed Nigerian soldier looks into the camera: “We don’t have adequate weapons,” he says...

John O. Ifediora, Director, and Editor-in-Chief. By all accounts Nigeria’s last presidential election held in March 2015, was reasonably less problematic than the rigged and blood-saturated past attempts at what passed for democratic elections in Africa’s most populous nation-state...

Giles Fraser. According to the socialist academic Walter Benn Michaels, the reason that rich western liberals talk so much about racism and sexism is so they don’t have to talk so much about economic inequality...

Yomi Kazeem. By most standards, Ezekiel is living the middle-class Nigerian dream. At 41, he works as a senior manager at a Lagos-based media company where he earns a healthy salary...

John Ikerd. Globalization has become a major public issue over the past decade.  Most of the recent controversy has centered on the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

There are indisputably significant divergences in the degree of development of countries across the world...

William Brown. This article critiques the predominant opinion that aid undermines the sovereignty of African states...

Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch. Abstract. We find anecdotal evidence suggesting that governments in poor countries have a more left wing rhetoric than those in OECD countries...

Mervyn King. Mervyn King looks like one of those old-fashioned bank managers who cast a paternalistic eye on the nervous customer...

Deborah Brautigam. Highly topical. Draws on completely new research in China and Africa to provide the first comprehensive account of Chinese engagement in Africa...

Picard, Buss, Seybolt, and Lelei. Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades...

Edward Ansah Akuffo. After over fifty-years of Canadian engagement with Africa, no comprehensive literature exists on Canada's security policy in Africa and relations towards Africa's regional organizations...