Spotlight

In a continent where journalists increasingly face threats to their safety, deteriorating working conditions, and shrinking press freedoms, Omar Faruk Osman, President of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), is spearheading a continent-wide movement for safer journalism and a more democratic media environment. Omar Farouk Osman, President of the Federation…

In 2011, Nteranya Sanginga became the 7th cum first African director general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). A decade later, Sanginga had transformed IITA into the go-to institution for innovation and knowledge on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, even as the Institute emerged the first institution to win…

Ibrahim Gambari, the preeminent ex top UN diplomat cum current chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism’s Panel of Eminent Persons, speaks about his over half-a-century long carrier in the academia and global diplomacy     Even at the ripe age of seventy-five, Ibrahim Gambari, chairperson of the African Peer…