Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power.
Adéwálé Májà-Pearce
A writer based in Lagos, Nigeria, and the author of, most recently, This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy (Verso) and the upcoming Shine Your Eye: In Search of West Africa (Hurst).
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