A law that punishes the messenger protects the officials who most need scrutiny.
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Hafrikplay, the Pan-African music streaming platform, has launched an airtime-based subscription service through MTN Nigeria, allowing customers to pay for music directly from their phone balance instead of using a bank card.
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A*POP isn’t a disappointing album because it is poorly made, it’s disappointing because it was marketed as a fearless leap into African electronic-pop innovation and mostly settled into safe, radio-friendly pop and R&B with occasional South African accents. The neon rollout, the tracklist reveal, the framing around “the A in pop” all promised something the record only delivers in flashes.
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The Ebola outbreak tearing through the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than the response can keep up with, and has become the country’s deadliest ever recorded, and the second-largest in history since 2016. More than 2,000 people have died, and over 4,300 cases have been confirmed across five provinces since the outbreak was declared in mid-May. Only the West Africa epidemic of 2014–2016, which killed more than 11,000 people, has claimed more lives.
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Obi’s answer, so far, has been serial departure, five parties without pausing long enough at any one of them to leave it stronger than he found it. Charisma got him 6.1 million votes and a historic win in Lagos and the FCT, but it has not shown any sign of getting him anywhere near the seat of power, the coalition arithmetic that turned Buhari’s fourth attempt into Nigeria’s first opposition victory at the polls is still missing. Until Obi can point to something structural rather than personal, the answer to whether charisma alone can make him Nigerian president will always be no.
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Raised in Abuja and born in Nasarawa State, FirstKlaz has built his name on a genre-fluid style he calls kalangu sound, weaving Hausa melodies and traditional Northern rhythms into Afrobeats and contemporary pop production.
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Two deaths in eight months, both linked to the pressure the institution places on the young people in its care, should not be treated as unrelated tragedies. They are data points, the pattern describes a school that too often treats collapse, mental, physical, and sometimes fatal, as an acceptable cost of doing business.
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What makes Authors of the Estate resonate beyond its immediate subject is that it isn’t simply a documentary about a book project. It is a case study in what becomes possible when marginalised communities made up of working-class, often non-white, historically written about rather than writing, are given the means to author their own narratives, on their own terms, without translation or permission.
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The incident carries implications far larger than the immediate death toll suggests. At risk is the survival of a peace agreement meant to close the book on one of Africa’s deadliest modern wars and the stability of an already fragile Horn of Africa, and the credibility of African led conflict resolution itself.
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