Tanzania’s Maasai prefer death to eviction
Maasai tribe’s eviction is part of a larger land-grabbing trend across Africa.
![For close to two decades the Maasai and the foreign trophy-hunters managed to coexist, writes Ogunlesi [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201411237438139734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The postponement of Nigeria’s elections and the subversion of the will of the ordinary citizen.
Maasai tribe’s eviction is part of a larger land-grabbing trend across Africa.
Welcome to the age of the citizen uprising in Africa.
![Instability has plagued the continent over the last five decades, writes Ogunlesi [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014111102055176734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why does the West assume a tweet can fix Africa’s problems?
![The attention does little to dispel the ignorance that surrounds Africa and its issues, writes Ogunlesi [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141022133635769734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The baale of Makoko is challenging negative stereotypes of Lagos’ economically productive overwater settlement.
![Emmanuel Shemede is chief of Makoko, an overwater settlement in Lagos [Ruth McDowall/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149991549908734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Musician Femi Kuti discusses pan-Africanism, the state of African leadership and the need to understand history.
