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Africa: Year in Review 2023

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The eighth edition of Africa: Year in Review (AYIR) includes 40+ essays that span everything from democracy and elections, trade, regional conflicts and coups, climate change, gender rights, and many other issues and developments in the governance, security, development, and social spheres on the continent. 

New to this year’s publication, we have included an exciting new section that gets to the heart of African issues and the future of Africa: essays that feature our cross-cutting focus on women, youth, and technology, as well as some other social issues on the continent. 

Africa: Year in Review continues to be our most-read publication, with this year being the largest edition yet. As 2024 commences, we invite you to join us in our continued discussion on challenges and opportunities facing the African continent that will inform the future of Africa and the world as we look to the year ahead. 

To commemorate the publication's release, the Wilson Center will host "Africa Year in Review:  A Look at US-Africa Relations in 2024" on February 8, 2024 at 10:00 am ET. Please visit the event page below to RSVP and for more information. 

Authors

Ambassador J. Peter Pham
Fmr. United States Special Envoy for the Sahel and Great Lakes Regions of Africa; Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Fikayo Akeredolu
Doctoral Candidate, Oxford University
Thomas P. Sheehy
Former Staff Director, Africa Subcommittee, House of Representatives and, Principal, Quinella Global LLC.
James J. Fisher
Researcher, the Generous Listening and Dialogue Center, Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life; Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio University
Robert E. Gribbin
(Ret.), former Ambassador to Rwanda and author of "In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. role in Rwanda"
Michael Walsh
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Nii Akuetteh
Former Executive Director, African Immigrants Caucus, and Former Lecturer, George Washington University
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Hyginus Banko Okibe
Former Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar;
Lecturer, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Department of Political Science
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Tiseke Kasambala
Director of Africa Programs, Freedom House
Igor Ngima
Burkina Faso Project Director, Freedom House
Jude Cocodia
Associate Professor, Niger Delta University Nigeria; Research Fellow, University of the Free State South Africa.
Daniel Eizenga
Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Sophia Moestrup
Deputy Director, Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Stefan Bakumenko
Independent Researcher
Nebiyu Daniel Meshesha
Former Ethiopian Diplomat for the Ethiopian Embassy
Joseph Siegle
Director for Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Wondemneh Pawlose
 Senior Program Associate, Freedom House
Alaina Rudnick
Former Staff Assistant Intern;
Senior Program Associate at Freedom House
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Raymond Gilpin
Chief Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations Development Programme, New York
Deirdre LaPin
Deirdre LaPin
Former Fellow;
Senior Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania
Michael Olabisi
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Sustainability and Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics, Michigan State University
Robert Richardson
Professor, Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University
Adesoji Adelaja
Adesoji Adelaja
Global Fellow;
John A Hannah Distinguished Professor in Land Policy, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Jamie Van Leeuwen
Jamie Van Leeuwen
Former Public Policy Fellow;
CEO & Founder of the Global Livingston Institute and Director of Youth & Community Engagement at the Emerson Collective
Rumbi Anne Gumbi
Public Health Consultant, the Global Livingston Institute; Clinical Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine  
Odilile Ayodele
Senior Research Specialist, Developmental, Capable, and Ethical State Division, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
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Olusegun Sotola
Senior Researcher, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA)
Maram Mahdi
Researcher, African Peace and Security Governance Program,Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
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Florence Odiwuor
Former Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar;
Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, Rongo University, Kenya
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Mziwandile Ndlovu
Research Scientist, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)
Alex Jiya
Research and Policy Analyst, the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)
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Christopher Maloney
Global Fellow;
Senior Director for Strategy and Business Development, Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the UN Foundation
Joseph Asunka
Chief Executive Officer at Afrobarometer based in Accra, Ghana.
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Stephanie Lizzo
Former Staff Intern (Director's Office);
Junior Policy Analyst, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED).
Azeb Tadesse
Deputy Director, UCLA Capacity Building Center,
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Ambassador Bisa Williams
Fmr. Ambassador to Niger for the US Government; Chair, Board of Directors of Health & Development, International; Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

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