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Africa Update

Rachel Strohm

An occasional newsletter on politics and culture in Africa

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Africa Update Vol. 49

Welcome to the latest edition of Africa Update! We’ve got reflective roofs in Sierra Leone, the cost of traffic police bribery in the DRC, informal waste managing workers getting unionized in Nigeria, and more.

West Africa: Sierra Leone is...

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Africa Update Vol. 48

Welcome to the latest edition of Africa Update! We’ve got the implicit social contract of vote-buying in Ghana, donations to the Sudan Solidarity Collective, universal suffrage in Somalia, and more.

West Africa: In Mali, the RobotsMali pr...

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Africa Update Vol. 47

Welcome to the latest edition of Africa Update! We’ve got the etymological map of Africa, misleading narratives about artisanal mining in the DRC, strikes over the $38 monthly minimum wage in Angola, ethical research in South Sudan, and mor...

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Africa Update Vol. 46

Welcome to the latest edition of Africa Update! We’ve got the Ugandan grasshopper harvest, UK hypocrisy on its Rwanda policy, a long-awaited airport bridge in Sierra Leone, Ghana’s debt protests, and more.

West Africa: Ghana’s ambitious fr...

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Africa Update Vol. 45

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    Writing about African social policy at Social Policy Insights, and African politics and culture more broadly at Africa Update. London-based. She/her

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