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Africa’s fintech firms vie for domination | The Economist

As investment pours in, they are expanding across the continent and into new services | Finance & economics (2021)


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How Africa is seizing an AI opportunity - Fast Company

Despite visa problems and limited resources, African technologists are only accelerating their research. Can they make AI work for the continent? (2019)


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Ubang: The Nigerian village where men and women speak different languages - BBC News

In Ubang, a small farming community in southern Nigeria, men and women have different lexicons. (2018)


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Nigeria's has the highest rate of extreme poverty globally — Quartz

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to end extreme poverty by 2030 is unlikely to be met—no thanks, in large part, to Nigeria. A... (2018)


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How Nigeria is fighting corruption - The Economist explains

NIGERIANS know what to expect when they approach police checkpoints. “How can you appreciate me?” ask officers, AK-47s dangling languidly from thei... (2018)


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What is Nigeria’s “third conflict”? - The Economist explains

LAST week armed men attacked a community in Enugu, a state in Nigeria’s south-east. Local press reported that they kidnapped two villagers and that... (2018)


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The demand for Nigerian debt - The Economist explains

NIGERIA’S economy shrank by 1.5% in 2016, its first annual contraction in 25 years. The president, Muhammadu Buhari (pictured, left), recently spen... (2018)


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Why nobody knows how many Nigerians there are - The Economist explains

NIGERIA is Africa’s most populous country, a designation it wears with pride. It had more than 182m citizens in 2015, according to the World Bank, ... (2018)


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The Nigerian love of board games - The Economist explains

WHEN it comes to Scrabble, Nigerians are on top of their game. In November they retained the team title at the world championships in Nairobi. They... (2018)


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Lagos: Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why.

Nigeria’s Growth Is Unsustainable. Here’s Why. (2024)