Pan African Review

  In recent years, Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a resurgence of military coups, particularly across the Sahel and parts of West and Central Africa. Countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Gabon, Chad, Guinea, Sudan, and Guinea-Bissau have all experienced military intervention in politics. At face value, these coups ap...

  In 2019, I boarded a one-way flight from New York to Accra with a simple ambition: help tackle youth unemployment. The scale of the problem was already well-documented. Millions of young people enter the labor market every year, most of them greeted not by a job offer but by informal work, under-employment, or the […]

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  Being in North East Nigeria, I have learned to read global economics and politics through local realities. One week the price of fertilizer shifts, another week fuel becomes scarce and suddenly a family that was “managing” is skipping meals. When people ask what changed, I often think of a local proverb: When two elephants […]

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  Exactly one year ago on May 28th, 2025, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiongo departed this earth. In a manner of scholarship uncommon in the era he lived, Wa Thiongo boldly identified and defined the reality of Africans living in a world that has consigned their knowledge to the periphery. Through his writings, teachings, and public […]

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  The world’s most powerful development institutions recently gathered in Washington for their 2026 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Africa was discussed at great length. Its financing gaps were mapped. Its resilience was noted. Its structural vulnerabilities were charted. One question that was left unanswered however was whether the framework through which development is...