Guest column by Aderinola Adejare and Angela Ddamba | Disengaging with an Africa rising
(04/20/15 3:08am)
Last month, Major General Muhammadu Buhari was elected to lead Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, in an historic election that brought worldwide acclaim as it symbolized a new era in the country’s democracy. A few days later, al-Shabaab terrorists stormed a university campus in Garissa, Kenya, leaving at least 147 students and staff dead and sparking worldwide outrage and shows of support for the affected Kenyans. Journalists from The New York Times filed reports from Kano, Nigeria, and Gatundu, Kenya, within a week in the wake of these disparate events. (Incidentally, Kenya and Nigeria are two of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world.)