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In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual. David Hume Kennerly / Getty Life is unfair, as a Democratic president once put it. That was John F. Kennedy, at a press conferenceearly in his term. Jimmy Carter did not go through as extreme a …

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Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle THE Zamfara State Government’s recent order that all non-governmental organisations should leave the state is heavy handed and alarming. It smacks of dictatorship and suggests a descent into tyranny in a country claiming to be a democracy. Hiding under a veneer of legalism, the Governor Bello Matawalle-led state government …

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Senegalese historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop ©Jeune Afrique montage, all rights reserved Born almost a century ago on 29 December 1923, in Thieytou, Senegal, the researcher went to Paris to study and provoked a scandal in academic circles by publishing, in 1954, Nations nègres et culture (Negro Nations and Culture), the doctoral thesis for which he …

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Jeffy Joy A 48-year-old Nigerian woman, Jeff Joy, who was one of the few women on Italy’s 100 most wanted criminal list, has been extradited to Italy. Joy had been on the list of the 100 most dangerous fugitives since 2010 and had a leading role in the illegal transporting of Nigerian girls to Italy, …

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