Macron Speaks on Reparations as Africa Pushes Historical Justice Back onto the Global Table
France has opened a new conversation on reparations for slavery, but the harder question remains: will symbolic recognition lead to material justice? French President Emmanuel Macron has stepped into one of the most difficult historical debates linking Europe, Africa and the Caribbean: the question of reparations for slavery. In a recent speech marking the 25th […]
Can Nigeria Become Africa’s Supermarket?
– RwandAir Cargo Deal Opens New Export Routes A new Nigeria–RwandAir cargo partnership could lower export costs and give Nigerian businesses wider access to East and Southern African markets — but logistics remains the real test. Nigeria is trying to turn African trade from political slogan into practical movement of goods. The Federal Government’s new […]
Living Sustainably Here: African Voices Take the SDGs Beyond Policy Rooms
Launched at the 25th Nigeria International Book Fair in Lagos, a new multi-volume anthology argues that Africa’s sustainability future must be shaped not only by global targets and technical policy, but by books, culture, knowledge, memory and lived African experience. At the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts in Lagos, the building formerly […]
Mombasa or Tanga? Dangote Refinery Plan Ignites East Africa’s Battle for Energy Power
With Aliko Dangote reportedly favouring Kenya’s Mombasa after an earlier regional proposal centred on Tanzania’s Tanga port, a proposed mega refinery has become a contest over ports, fuel security, industrial ambition and East Africa’s economic future. For a region that imports virtually all its refined petroleum products, the question of where East Africa’s next major […]
Ghana takes back control of gold
Ghana is sending a clear message to the global mining industry: the old rules can no longer be taken for granted. For decades, many African countries welcomed foreign mining companies under arrangements designed to attract investment, technology and international capital. But the deeper question has always remained unresolved: how much real value stays at home? […]
France is not leaving africa – it is changing its method
France is not leaving Africa. It is changing its method. That may be the clearest message from the recent Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, where French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President William Ruto co-hosted a major gathering of African leaders, investors, business figures and young innovators. Officially, the summit was framed as “Africa–France […]
Katsina’s solar gamble: can smart streetlights help Nigeria look beyond the national grid?
Katsina State is moving into unusual territory in Nigeria’s energy and technology space after signing a deal for the deployment of 50,000 solar-powered smart streetlights across the state. The project, involving UK-based Conflow Power Group Limited and its Nigerian partner, Mora Energy, is being presented as more than a public lighting programme. The solar-powered units, […]
DR. HASSAN ALIYU ON RESIZING AFRICA CORRECTLY ON THE WORLD MAP
In this edition of Hot Topic on WestAfrica.news, artist and cultural thinker Dr Hassan Aliyu reflects on a subject that is at once geographical, historical and psychological: the representation of Africa on the world map. For generations, the familiar world map has shaped how people imagine continents, power and place. Yet Africa, despite its vast […]
West Africa’s dilemma in cooperation
Sahel states say they remain open to practical engagement, but accusations of terrorism support deepen regional mistrust Even as the Alliance of Sahel States insists that it wants to maintain practical cooperation with neighbouring countries after leaving ECOWAS, tensions across West Africa remain acute. At a security forum in Senegal, the foreign ministers of Mali […]
Gulf crisis bites aviation in Nigeria harder
The widening crisis in the Middle East is now being felt more sharply in Nigeria’s aviation sector, where rising jet fuel costs and supply pressures are putting domestic airlines under severe strain. Airlines recently warned that the cost and availability of Jet A1 fuel were making operations increasingly difficult, raising fears of possible flight suspensions […]