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- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Researching Community Engagement Against Violent Extremism: Lessons from the Field in Northern Ghana
  by Hippolyt Pul
- The Overlooked Spoilers Beclouding Nigeria’s 2023 Elections
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- A Goal-Means Analysis of Security in Political Parties’ Manifestos for Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election
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Review of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Cynthia Alexandre-Brutus·

February 9, 2017

Quotation by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun offers a heart-wrenching account of the Biafran War (1967-1970), beautifully wrapped in…

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The South Sudan Peace Deal and Prospects for Peacebuilding

Kenneth Omeje·

Nicodemus Minde·

November 4, 2015

"Post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction present a complex challenge to any nascent state emerging from war. In South Sudan, negotiated tradeoffs…

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