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Ghana's multilingual first lady faced an intense backlash on social media over her spoken English recently. Is the ability to master a former colonial language evidence of intellig…
Aliko Dangote is reshaping Africa's energy map. Do the investments of the continent's richest businessman amount to progress for Africa or monopoly power?
