Kwangu Liwewe

Fake videos of celebrities singing the praises of military leaders have gone viral, tapping into people’s political disaffection across the continent Burkina Faso’s interim president, Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, stands at a podium listing Africa’s riches. He names them as cobalt, platinum and uranium, and then asks why the continent, the world’s richest in minerals, remains poor. It’s a passionate speech about exploitation, corruption and neocolonialism.

Debates over land, language and race expose deep fractures in identity in contemporary South Africa They arrived in the early afternoon at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on May 12 — 49 white South Africans, mostly families. Some pushed strollers, while others dragged suitcases. A few toddlers clung to their toys as their parents waved the American flag. They had come to seek refuge in the United States. On paper, they were fleeing racial discrimination.

On June 12, 1993, millions of Nigerians stood in long lines under the burning sun, believing they were witnessing history in the making. For the first time, an election free of military interference had seemingly taken place. Hope was in the air, in what was regarded as one of Nigeria’s fiercest and fairest elections. Then, without warning, it was taken away.