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January 1, 2023

The importance of mother language

International Mother Language Day is commemorated each year on February 21.  It was designated by United Nations as a day to recognize and accord importance to languages and multilingualism in order to advance inclusion and attain the Sustainable Development Goals…

ELECTION SPECIAL

Between 2016 and 2017, the elections in Nigeria, Togo, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone were all given special coverage by WADR. Instead of reports from the correspondents on the ground,…

Residents of a slum near Abuja lack development

With a population of nearly two hundred million people, Nigeria, like many developing countries is struggling to cater to the needs of its citizens despite being the premier economic powerhouse in Africa. More than 10 million children in the country…

Author Anna Badkhen on Daybreak West Africa

Anna Badkhen has spent most of her life in the Global South. Her immersive investigations of the world's iniquities have yielded six books of literary nonfiction. Her essays and dispatches appear in periodicals and literary magazines such as the New…

Carl Oshodi on the benefits and challenges of the AfCFTA

Despite the ratification of African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, the readiness of countries for the free trade opportunity is being impacted by the economic effect of COVID-19 pandemic, among others. As contained in Article 23 of the agreement establishing…