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Narendra Modi is on a mission to grow India’s global influence.
African leaders’ authoritarian practices, domestic power struggles and governance failures have undermined efforts to create a ‘United States of Africa’.
Ghanaian leaders have grappled with ideological challenges while navigating decolonisation and socio-economic development.
Youth citizenship is a fluid identity that stretches beyond disappointment, protest or voting.
Ethnicity has been largely tamed in Ghanaian electoral politics.
Ghana’s recent Afcon record does not reflect its status as an African football powerhouse.
Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
The African Union compares well to other continental unions. It accomplishes more than the Commonwealth or the Francophonie.
If a new non-alignment is to be achieved in Africa, the foreign military bases of the US, France, and China - and the Russian military presence - must be dismantled.
The recurrent bickering and fragmentation within the Nkrumahist parties raises doubt as to whether they can rise to the call by Ghanaian electorate.
A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
Ghana’s national museum has been reopened after being closed for seven years.
Mbeki has successfully transitioned from being an old horse of South Africa’s governing ANC to a highly venerated and in-demand African elder statesman.
Despite the benefits that could come from integration, many African countries remain wary of the process.
A new book places the responsibility of African growth on its leaders, people, and civil society, while also recognising the role partners like India can play in achieving its goals.
Hountondji both disrupted and shaped ideas on African philosophy. He is a grandfather of today’s decolonial movement.
Ghanaian footballers chased migration to the US after the removal of Nkrumah as president.
Nkrumah’s rhetorical vision used the politics of the crowd to build a postcolonial community outside of the conscripts of colonialism.
The present state of legal education in Ghana cannot be discussed without understanding its beginings.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Ghana
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Director and Assistant Professor Measurement & Evaluation School of Professional and Extended Studies, American University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate research scientist, Universidade de Lisboa
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Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, University of the West of England
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Professor of Francophone Studies (Africa, Caribbean), Faculty Affiliate with Africana Studies, World Literature Program and Human Rights Pracice, University of Arizona
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus, Princeton University
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Associate Professor in Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor and Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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SARChI Research Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Rhodes University