List of Africa articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigeria Is Not Pakistan
The state isn't trying to use Boko Haram as a political tool -- it's just been totally useless in doing anything to defeat it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Everyone Is Corrupt in Kenya, Even Grandmothers’
Is East Africa’s economic powerhouse becoming the continent’s newest lootocracy?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Lost Girls
Why women are the "spoils of war" in Nigeria and around the world -- and nobody cares.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Ghana’s Democracy Save It from the Oil Curse?
Ghana is one of Africa's big economic success stories. But the discovery of oil has confronted it with some tricky problems.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No More Empty Classrooms
More than half of all schools in the Central African Republic have closed due to bloody conflict. Reopening them -- and keeping them safe -- should be an international priority.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Only the Synagogue Can Save You
Every week, thousands of people attend a megachurch in Lagos. But they aren’t there for the sermons -- they believe the televangelist pastor can cure them of HIV, cancer, and other terrible diseases.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Nowhere Safe in South Sudan?
Ten thousand dead, 1 million displaced, and things are only likely to get worse for the fledgling country.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Big Data Stop Wars Before They Happen?
Number crunching and pattern recognition may hold the key to predicting and preventing conflicts. But first, peace-builders need to change the way they do business.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s African Adventure
The disintegration of South Sudan, the world's newest country, is driving a foreign-policy shift in one of the world's oldest.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terror Money Crackdown Also Complicates Life for Ordinary Somali-Americans
Rules designed to thwart criminals also disrupt immigrants sending money home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Fair Stake in the Ground
Why keeping women away from Congo’s mines -- which are rife with exploitation and sexual violence -- could do more harm than good.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Abuse of Power
Sexualized violence against girls is going unchecked in schools around the world -- and the perpetrators are teachers. What can be done to stop them?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 We Can’t Say All That We See in Darfur
A former spokesperson reveals the web of lies, half-truths, and omissions that the United Nations has built in Darfur.
