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    Preventing Conflict in Coastal West Africa
    The Global Fragility Act allows the United States to encourage greater stability in Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Togo over the next ten years, argues Eric Silla, though it will be contentious and require high-level diplomacy.
    Report by Eric Silla August 25, 2022 Center for Preventive Action
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    Behind Africans’ Thirst for Prophecy; Confusion About the Present and Anxiety About the Future
    Across West Africa, Pentecostal pastors hold huge public sway. Their influence is a reflection of deepening distrust of the secular state and its ability to fulfill citizens' demands.
    Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare February 3, 2022 Africa in Transition
  • Immigration and Migration
    Africans Should Fight for DACA, Too
    Tareian King is a former intern with CFR's Africa Program and a student at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She is also the founder of Nolafrique, an e-commerce platform that enab…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell August 26, 2020 Africa in Transition
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    A Conversation with Dr. K.Y. Amoako on the Future of African Development
    CFR Senior Fellow for Africa Studies Michelle Gavin interviews Founder and President of the African Center for Economic Transformation Dr. K.Y. Amoako.
    Blog Post by Michelle Gavin August 13, 2020 Strength Through Peace
  • Ghana
    Ghana Looks to Long Relationship With African Americans for Investment
    Tareian King is an intern with CFR's Africa Program and a student at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She is also the founder of Nolafrique, an e-commerce platform that enables ar…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell August 4, 2020 Africa in Transition
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    Now a Destination for Illicit Drugs, African States Need a New Approach
    Alvin Young is a Rangel Fellow and master's candidate at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. On March 20, Ghana's parliament passed the Narcotics Contr…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell April 9, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    Coastal West Africa Now Facing Islamist Extremist Threat
    Adam Valavanis is a former intern with the Africa Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a master’s degree in conflict studies from the London School of Economics and Political Scie…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell September 4, 2019 Africa in Transition
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    Press Freedom Varies Considerably Across Africa
    Each year, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) publishes a list of 180 countries rank-ordered according to the degree of freedom the media enjoys. RWB uses objective criteria, which it outlines on its we…
    Blog Post by John Campbell April 26, 2018 Africa in Transition
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    Violence against Women in Ghana: Unsafe in the Second Safest Country in Africa
    Breanna Wilkerson is an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated from Spelman College with a degree in Women’s Studies and is the founder of GlobeMed at Spelman. Ghana gained indep…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell July 28, 2016 Africa in Transition
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    A Western Historian of Africa
    This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell October 24, 2014 Africa in Transition
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    Is the IMF Going to Save Ghana’s Troubled Economy?
    This is a guest post by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, a journalist and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Long hailed as evidence of Africa’s growing political and …
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell August 13, 2014 Africa in Transition
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    The Myth of Isolationism, in Africa, at Least
    This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell February 3, 2014 Africa in Transition
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    The Odds on an African Pope
    British, Irish, and Australian bookmakers will place odds on anything. They are already looking at possible successors to Pope Benedict XVI.  The odds change by the minute, but the three favorites in…
    Blog Post by John Campbell February 14, 2013 Africa in Transition
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    Ghana Burnishes its Democratic Credentials
    President of Ghana John Atta Mills died July 24. Though never officially confirmed, it was said that he suffered from throat cancer and he went to New York several times for medical treatment. The im…
    Blog Post by John Campbell July 26, 2012 Africa in Transition
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    Guest Post: At Victory Temple, "Leading By Example, Not By Doctorate"
    This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
    Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell July 25, 2012 Africa in Transition
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