Africa Policy Conversations

Happy New Year from Africa Policy Conversations  Here’s to 2026, a year of bold steps, innovative solutions, and co-creation across Africa.
We’re ready to deepen impact and amplify African-led policy conversations. #AFPC2026 #HappyNewYear #AfricaPolicy #PanAfricanism

Merry Christmas to our community. We hope your holiday is filled with joy as we celebrate the spirit of the season. Thank you for following along and contributing your voice to the conversation this year. Happy holidays from all of us at AfPC.

To our speakers, partners, interns, volunteers, and growing community across Africa and the diaspora, thank you for shaping this journey. 2025 was impactful. 2026 will go further. #AFPCWrapped2025 #AfricaPolicyConversations #AfricanPolicy #PanAfricanism #YouthInPolicy

From policy X Spaces and town halls to youth legislative exposure visits and the Pan-African Development Internship, we connected ideas to action and learning to leadership. We didn’t just host conversations, we built policy communities across borders.

AfPC Wrapped 2025 This year, Africa Policy Conversations convened critical dialogues on trade, governance, gender equity, religion, security, and Africa’s development pathways, centering African voices and lived realities.

If a government repeatedly fails to prevent mass atrocities, does the global community have a duty to act? Where do we draw the line between respect for sovereignty and protection of human life?

Can a state still claim sovereignty when it fails to protect its own citizens? At our recent X Space on Religion, Violence & External Intervention in Nigeria, panelist Amara Nwankpa challenged us to rethink what sovereignty really means in times of crisis.

Here we go again. A Catholic Priest kidnapped in his house in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State A younger brother to another priest killed Many abducted along with the priest. If we don’t unite against this evil but keep debating who has more deaths than the other, it’ll get to us.

Now we have a Trump era that is perceived to have a Christian dominated perspective that is sparking action in Nigeria both militarily and politically. Why do we need to wait for international intervention to secure lives of Nigerians?

It has also highlighted incidents where state has been used or has tolerated the persecution & the attacks on religious freedom. shorturl.at/kNkTr

The conversation started from the Country of Particular Concern (CPC) recommendation; the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern every year since 2009. 17 consecutive years. #AfPC

Nigeria’s violence is often called “arbitrary,” but conflict data and field evidence suggest deeper patterns worth examining. Are these attacks random, or is there a targeted system shaping who is most at risk? And how do global narratives influence the foreign policy response?

Are these attacks arbitrary or there is there a pattern of targeted attacks on religious communities?

Nigerian government says the killings are arbitrary and they are copping with it. But the US government insists they have seen some significant salient attacks and historically, the institutional position for the US has always been about countries of faith & religious freedom.

@Nwankpa_A: The violence ecosystem in Nigeria is complex but also there are historical recurrent patterns. The ambient security ecosystem and the salient - specific and targeted patterns seen on the system. And thats the argument- is there a pattern or is it arbitrary? #AfPC

11.8K people tuned in to our X Space on Religion, Violence and External Intervention in Nigeria. The demand for deeper, evidence-based policy conversations is growing. Thank you for engaging and pushing the national dialogue forward. #LetsTalkPolicy #AfricaPolicyConversations

Thank you to all our speakers and moderators for shaping an impactful conversation on Religion, Violence and External Intervention in Nigeria. Your insights brought clarity and context to a complex national issue. AfPC remains committed to driving informed policy dialogue. #AfPC

View the Space on Religion, Violence, and External Intervention in Nigeria.

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