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Secessionist causes are part and parcel of the political fabric in regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa, eastern and western Europe and north America. Many have stoked the flames of war. Julius Heise and Werner Distler analyse the secessionist movement in Ghana’s Volta region in this broader context, relating the intermittent violence in the region to the deal that was struck as the country made its transition from colonial rule
after the end of the Second World War.
One of Nigeria’s three main ethnic groups, the Igbo, like most other indigenous groups, believe in maintaining legacies of not just their language but other values, customs and norms. Nnamdi Madichie explores why for the Igbos, entrepreneurship and business continuity seems paramount as a means to ensure that there are trans-generational business legacies.
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Godfred Boafo
Commissioning Editor: Ghana
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Modern secession claims find their roots in the Trusteeship System of the UN.
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Julius Heise, University of Marburg; Werner Distler, University of Marburg
Colonial powers framed secessionism as a threat to state-building and not as an expression of self-determination
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Computer village, Lagos, is one of those places where Igbo entrepreneurship is practiced and passed on to the next generation.
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Nnamdi Madichie, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
The Igbos, like most other indigenous groups, believe in maintaining a legacy of not just their language, but other values, including trans-generational business legacies.
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Veronica Ueckermann, University of Pretoria
At the current vaccination pace it will take over a decade for South Africa to reach herd immunity, with many lives lost along the way.
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Nana Kofi Quakyi, New York University
The COVID-19 vaccination programme requires stringent data collection and transparency.
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Patience Afulani, University of California, San Francisco
Provider burnout is expensive for the health system given its associations with low quality of care, absenteeism, and high workforce turnover.
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Michael Head, University of Southampton
Stories of reaching herd immunity were certainly premature.
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Alfredo Saad Filho, King's College London; Fernanda Feil, Universidade Federal Fluminense
The Brazilian president has engineered the conditions for the virus to run rampant through the country while he pursues his own agenda.
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André Guichaoua, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Retour détaillé sur l’évolution de la commémoration par les autorités rwandaises du génocide de 1994.
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Raul Magni-Berton, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Clara Egger, University of Groningen; Simon Varaine, Sciences Po Grenoble
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