Niger
The storyteller
“Stories matter … stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, acclaimed Nigerian novelist, the young, gifted storyteller wowing readers worldwide, knows all too well about the power of the story. “Endowed with the gifts of ancient...
Less than a week after the European Parliament gave the green light on April 6 for the new fishing agreement between the EU and the Comoros, a delegation of fishermen from West Africa, brought to Europe by the NGO Greenpeace, told MEPs and EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, on 14 April in Brussels, of the threat posed by the mass influx of European vessels into their waters.
Thirteen...
Nigeria has a landmass of almost one million square kilometres and a population of more than 150 million. The world’s sixth biggest oil producer, it builds observation satellites, boasts a large number of universities and research centres, and is second in global statistics for the number of fiction films made each year.
The country’s economy is currently in the midst of the...
West Africa’s plans to move up the world tourism rankings are taking root, both at regional and country-levels.
Nigeria’s Delta State is aiming for one million visitors a year by 2014 on completion of a water theme park. According to Richard Mofe Damijo, state commissioner for tourism, it is the first of its kind in West Africa and will help propel the country’s tourism sector...
Established in 1991, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a partnership between African governments and the international donor community, is enabling Africa to build its own capacity, says Executive Secretary, Frannie Leautier. She was recently in Brussels to explain more about ACBF’s aims and activities to European Union (EU) institutions. The body has, to date, funded 246...
West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is a trans-territorial radio station, set up to facilitate the exchange of development information between West African countries.
Its promoter is the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), part of the network of the Soros Foundations whose aims are to further democracy, good governance, the rule of law, freedom and civil society participation.
After...
As the first woman candidate in a presidential election in Niger, Mrs Bayard Mariama Gamatié won 0.38% of the vote in January 2011. A poor result in the opinion of experienced observers of the political scene in Niger, given the demographic weight of the female population.
“You have to love your country, be a democrat, possess a political vision and, above all, be...
British High Commissioner to Ghana and Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo until January of this year, and with a previous posting in Tanzania, Nicholas Westcott is now the “Mr Africa” of European diplomacy.
As Managing Director for Africa in the new European External Action Service (EEAS), responsible for European policy on sub-Saharan Africa and relations...
In this issue's dossier, we find that Africa, which had experienced ‘spatial inversion’ in colonial times with coastal ports as capitals, with the sole aim and purpose of draining natural resources abroad for export, is now articulating itself differently. Several multi-nodal transport networks are being developed between countries. Through their development agreements, the EU and...
“Less than five years ago nothing grew on these plateaus,” Aicha Bouda tells us. This 48-year-old woman is helping her grandchildren collect ripe beans. Their field was restored following rehabilitation works to improve the degraded land in this part of North-Eastern Niger.
For more than a decade this part of Niger has symbolised the courage, determination and commitment of...
The storyteller
“Stories matter … stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, acclaimed Nigerian novelist, the young, gifted storyteller wowing readers worldwide, knows all too well about the power of the story. “Endowed with the gifts of ancient...
Less than a week after the European Parliament gave the green light on April 6 for the new fishing agreement between the EU and the Comoros, a delegation of fishermen from West Africa, brought to Europe by the NGO Greenpeace, told MEPs and EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, on 14 April in Brussels, of the threat posed by the mass influx of European vessels into their waters.
Thirteen...
Nigeria has a landmass of almost one million square kilometres and a population of more than 150 million. The world’s sixth biggest oil producer, it builds observation satellites, boasts a large number of universities and research centres, and is second in global statistics for the number of fiction films made each year.
The country’s economy is currently in the midst of the...
West Africa’s plans to move up the world tourism rankings are taking root, both at regional and country-levels.
Nigeria’s Delta State is aiming for one million visitors a year by 2014 on completion of a water theme park. According to Richard Mofe Damijo, state commissioner for tourism, it is the first of its kind in West Africa and will help propel the country’s tourism sector...
Established in 1991, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a partnership between African governments and the international donor community, is enabling Africa to build its own capacity, says Executive Secretary, Frannie Leautier. She was recently in Brussels to explain more about ACBF’s aims and activities to European Union (EU) institutions. The body has, to date, funded 246...
West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is a trans-territorial radio station, set up to facilitate the exchange of development information between West African countries.
Its promoter is the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), part of the network of the Soros Foundations whose aims are to further democracy, good governance, the rule of law, freedom and civil society participation.
After...
As the first woman candidate in a presidential election in Niger, Mrs Bayard Mariama Gamatié won 0.38% of the vote in January 2011. A poor result in the opinion of experienced observers of the political scene in Niger, given the demographic weight of the female population.
“You have to love your country, be a democrat, possess a political vision and, above all, be...
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British High Commissioner to Ghana and Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo until January of this year, and with a previous posting in Tanzania, Nicholas Westcott is now the “Mr Africa” of European diplomacy.
As Managing Director for Africa in the new European External Action Service (EEAS), responsible for European policy on sub-Saharan Africa and relations...
In this issue's dossier, we find that Africa, which had experienced ‘spatial inversion’ in colonial times with coastal ports as capitals, with the sole aim and purpose of draining natural resources abroad for export, is now articulating itself differently. Several multi-nodal transport networks are being developed between countries. Through their development agreements, the EU and...
“Less than five years ago nothing grew on these plateaus,” Aicha Bouda tells us. This 48-year-old woman is helping her grandchildren collect ripe beans. Their field was restored following rehabilitation works to improve the degraded land in this part of North-Eastern Niger.
For more than a decade this part of Niger has symbolised the courage, determination and commitment of...
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