Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.

Julius Malema’s skills at building a party and running a tight ship have been bolstered by his charisma and speech-making capability.

The Kenyan state’s war against traditional brews is driven by a colonial mentality.

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