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The political landscape of Africa in 2011 was largely defined by the protests in North Africa, which eventually led to the overthrow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt...
The first decade of the 21st century, especially as it relates to the quest for continental integration, belonged to Muammar Gaddafi. Like Kwame Nkrumah before him, Gaddafi dominated the discourse...
A defining feature of a post-1945 global order is the creation of regional organisations to handle matters that have assumed transnational dimensions. Issues such as conflict prevention and...
Europe’s cartographic experiments in Africa remain one of the most indelible physical scars of colonialism. This exercise, which started in 1884, makes Africa the most fragmented continent in the...
Emerging from the throes of colonialism in the 1960s, many analysts theorised that the nascent African states, as opposed to their Asian counterparts, were most likely to record substantial...
Depending on the view one subscribes to, the number of states in Africa can either be 53 or 54. The reason for this state of confusion stems from Morocco's withdrawal from the Organisation of...