Migration brings new faces to our cities every day, and takes others away. Successful economies worldwide lure young job-seekers, while many social and economic factors keep (or drive) others home. How are identities changing as a result of this mass migration? How are we as individuals altered by these new […]

This article was originally drafted by Chris Kwaja and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Since early 2000, the Sahel region of West Africa has witnessed deteriorating political, social and economic conditions with huge […]

The Malian government had its hands full with the Sahel food crisis. Unable to deal with the concurrent civil unrest in the north, a coup has ensured now that it’s hands are empty. Is Mali’s democracy ruined forever?