From Imposter to Influence: What Women in Tech Actually Need Right Now
Visibility, sponsorship, and purposeful skill-building are not perks. They are the infrastructure for closing the leadership gap, and organizations can…
Category: Opinion
Why the Weather App Fails — but a Bank Never Misses a Beat
By Patkar Kaivalya. The invisible infrastructure of real-time data pipelines is already shaping your life — it’s time you understood…
The Tech Shift No One Explained to Us
Every now and then, you read something that makes you pause and think, “Okay… but what does this actually mean…
Minneapolis ICE Murders Follow Chicago Police Shootings Script
By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein We’ve seen this script before. An officer from a law enforcement agency shoots and kills a…
Dr. King’s Struggles With Doubt Can Guide Us In This Moment (1)
By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein It’s been a rough couple of weeks in the United States and the world. The killing…
Cyberginance and the Village Shopkeeper: Why PCI-DSS Is Everyone’s Business
Cyberginance is not a term you will find in textbooks. It’s a word I coined from the intersection of cybersecurity,…
Zohran Mamdani: A Ugandan Spirit in New York Politics
When Zohran Mamdani was born in Kampala in October 1991, no one could have guessed that the boy who once…
Veronique Nyiramongi Mbaye: Sportswashing and the Many “Crimes” of Rwanda
After the fall of Rome, bathing in medieval Western Europe declined, the superstition being that water spread disease. Meanwhile, it…
Tina Charles Mbakwe-Obi: Lessons from the Intersection of Finance and Cybersecurity
This article was inspired by Zero Day, a Netflix series that surfaced all the “what-ifs” I pondered as a Security…
The Dangerous Fantasy of a Violent Nigerian Revolution
A stark idea has always permeated certain corners of Nigerian public discourse, and it has re-emerged on social media, a…
Pivot Smart: Thriving in the AI-Powered Career Landscape
By Tina Charles If your resume reads more like a winding road than a straight highway, you’re not sabotaging your…
Grant-Driven African Journalism: Who Are We Serving?
As African journalists, we are taught that the ultimate goal of our work is to serve the public—to tell the…
Moussa Ibrahim – Africa Is Bleeding; Because It’s Being robbed
For centuries, Western empires looted the continent’s gold, oil, rubber, and people. Today, the same powers wear suits, fly flags…
Faith, Ethnicity, and the Fragile Dream of Nigerian Unity
Nigeria grapples with a deeply fractured identity, a nation where religious cohesion in the North contrasts sharply with the ethnic…
Trump’s Tariffs Are A Wake-Up Call for African Self-Reliance
Donald Trump’s return to aggressive tariff policies, under his “MAGA Master Plan,” has cast a long shadow over global trade,…
OPINION: Uncle Ernie & Two Months Of Trump – Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Photo: Ernest Lowenstein, far left, pictured in the 1930s with his three brothers. Photo courtesy of Lowenstein family. In the…
How Political Overreach Threatens Nigeria’s Economic Future
Nigeria stands at a critical juncture in 2025, grappling with the dual challenges of implementing bold economic reforms and navigating…
OPINION: A Sexist Senate & The Shameful Case of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan
Nigeria’s Senate has 109 members, yet only four are women. This statistic alone highlights the severe gender imbalance in Nigerian…
Rewriting History: The Whitewashing of IBB’s Legacy
“To die for a people devoid of memory is to be killed over and over, again and again.” – Dele…
Opinion: Trump’s Return to Power: What Africa Needs to Prepare For
Donald Trump’s inauguration for his second presidential term has sparked concerns globally, particularly in Africa. Although his speech didn’t directly…