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Engaging with banks in Nigeria as a customer can be a painful experience – even at the best of times. It was particularly bad earlier this year. It took me three hours to collect just N2,000 (about US$4.34) from a bank - the most that each person was allowed to take out per day at the time. This was at the height of a severe cash crunch caused by the botched withdrawal of old Naira notes and their replacement with new ones. As Iwa Salami explains, the crisis triggered by the currency swap was a perfect opportunity for Nigeria to boost the uptake of digital financial services. But it missed the moment. Had Nigeria appreciated the value of digital finance,
particularly mobile money, the impact of the crisis would not have been as painful.
Africa is the only continent that has never seen a mass extinction of its megafauna - large mammals like elephants, hippos and rhinos. Ara Monadjem argues that this makes it the ideal place for studying ecological interactions and dynamics, especially those between large and small mammals and the land they occupied. This is because they would have been here before our species, Homo sapiens, came to dominate all landscapes on all continents.
Finally, to mark World Press Freedom Day today, we’ve shared a few pieces from our archives in this newsletter.
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Wale Fatade
Commissioning Editor: Nigeria
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Iwa Salami, University of East London
Nigeria’s Central Bank didn’t have an adoption strategy for its digital currency. It was a missed opportunity.
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Ara Monadjem, University of Eswatini
Africa’s mammals are a global treasure that must be protected.
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Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Harvard University
Africa has come a long way, in the post-COVID era, in boosting the morale around local production investments among local and foreign companies. But more is needed.
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Lise Woensdregt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Naomi van Stapele, Hague University of Applied Sciences
A backlash against progress in gender and sexual rights is common.
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Daniel Merino, The Conversation; Mend Mariwany
Older imported cars pose risks to motorists and spew pollution. Some countries, including Ghana, are taking steps to limit the harms of this piece of the vehicle life cycle.
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George Ogola, University of Nottingham
There is a growing public wariness about the performance of the media, which are increasingly accused of being partisan.
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Prinola Govenden, University of Johannesburg
The study analysed the content of six news outlets from 1994 to 2014, looking at how core socio-economic issues were reported.
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Martin N Ndlela, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
The system behind apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp isn’t neutral. It encodes political communication, influencing what users see.
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Ylva Rodny-Gumede, University of Johannesburg
The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
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Anna Sobek, Stockholm University
No place on Earth is free from pollution.
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Joshua Warrick, Penn State; David DeGraff, Penn State; Monika Joshi, Penn State
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treating cancer. Understanding how cancer cells evolve could help researchers develop more effective drugs.
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