My best shot Photography ‘In Yoruba culture, these giant otherwordly figures represent the return of deceased ancestors. Photographing them in port towns north of Newcastle was quite surreal’ Interview by Chris …
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Cotton Capital Slavery: Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
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Three convicted of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney in first verdict of its kind under Modern Slavery Act Matthew Weaver A SENIOR Nigerian politician, his wife, and …
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‘Change will come’: Africa’s ‘dinosaur’ leaders win polls, but their young challengers won’t fade away
Last week’s (February 25) win for the ruling party in Nigeria is a familiar result across the continent, but opposition movements won’t stop gearing up for power By Jason Burke Lagos …
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‘I have no problem being regarded as a Black writer, but I won’t be confined by it’: Gary Younge on race, politics, and pigeonholing
At 24, Gary Younge was sent to report for the Guardian on South Africa’s first democratic elections. Thirty years on, he reflects on his career, how the world has changed …
Editorial Those who hoped the presidential race would be an inflection point for the country have been disappointed IT is perhaps unsurprising that many Nigerians are dissatisfied with the outcome …
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Dark arts of politics: how ‘Team Jorge’ and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigerian election
Composite: Guardian Design/AP/Haaretz/TheMarker/Radio France/Getty Images/EyeEm/AFP/Reuters Leaked messages show failed plan to discredit Muhammadu Buhari and get Goodluck Jonathan re-elected in 2015 By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Carole Cadwalladr, Paul Lewis and Jason Burke FOUR weeks before …
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African Queens: Njinga review – Jada Pinkett Smith’s docudrama is like a mediocre Channel 5 show
This tale of a 17th-century African female ruler features impressive academics, but they’re drowned out by poor-quality dramatic sequences. It lacks context, analysis or personality Photo: Redressing wrong … Adesuwa …
Photo: Tal Hanan has always denied any wrongdoing. Composite: Guardian Design/Haaretz/The Marker/Radio France By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Carole Cadwalladr and Jason Burke ‘The methods and techniques described by Team Jorge raise new challenges …