Politics

TAP MAGAZINE ISSUE 19 | Africa’s Diaspora Youth Returns
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Welcome to Issue 19 of TAP. For the past decade, migration has been one of the leading political issues across the Western World. In Europe, many people live in paranoia of African migrants swimming onto their shores and taking over...
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Chernor Bah | Leading the Global Feminist Revolution from Sierra Leone
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Chernor Bah, from Sierra Leone, is one of the world’s leading Feminist activists. In 2018, Chernor led and helped create a movement called “The Black Tuesday” that helped push Sierra Leone to declare Rape a national emergency and thus change...
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Sudan’s Pro-Democracy Protests
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It is estimated that nearly 4 million people were in the streets in Khartoum on October 30th calling for Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to step down after the prime minister he shared power with–Abdalla Hamdok–was arrested and Burhan claimed control of...
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The Africa We Want | A TAP Magazine Campaign
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Here at TAP, we are continuously striving to stimulate nuanced, vibrant, and dynamic conversations about Africa. Over the next 6 months we want to use our platform as a space to engage Africa’s youth to voice ideas and opinions about...
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Pan-Africanism Through The Eyes Of PLO Lumumba
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“I define Pan-Africanism in its broader context to mean the creation of an Africa which is border-less. An Africa whose sons and daughters will have the ability to move from Djibouti to Dakar, from Tunisia to Cape Town without the...
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Sudan | A New Generation Demands Freedom, Peace and Justice
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The African dictator is an endangered species. Throughout 2018, it became evident that Africans would no longer take the backseat and endure the effects of political partisanship and blatant corruption. And a youth decided that their time had come. December...
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In a “New” Sudan, the Fight Against the Corona Virus Challenges an Old View of Africa as Passive Victim
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The world reels and moans from the apocalyptic reality of the coronavirus epidemic. But many parts of Africa watch from the outside—as usual. This time, though, being on the margins (in terms of COVID-19 cases) is better than being in...
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The Future of African Diaspora with Eiman Kheir – Head of Diaspora Division at the African Union
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Eiman Kheir, Head of Diaspora Division, Citizens and Diaspora Organizations CIDO) at the African Union discussed the future of African Diaspora with TAP Magazine including the official AU definition of who is an African diaspora and how her office is...
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Kenyan youths weigh the future
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The staggering numbers of Kenyan youths wishing to flee abroad portrays a nation overwhelmed by a warp-speed downward spiral into economic despondency and risking a ruptured social system just as the young, brilliant, potential industry pioneers head abroad for what’s...
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Not Everyone is Celebrating the Power-Sharing Deal in Sudan
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While the Sudanese Journalist Network, in a statement dominated by indignant disappointment with the fact of an alliance with the transitional military council, says "the agreement is devoted to a dysfunctional partnership that produces a being distorted by a hateful military head,...
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