by G Sai Prashanth Have you ever wondered how you used to write before you started using AI? With no …
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by G Sai Prashanth Have you ever wondered how you used to write before you started using AI? With no guidance, no nudges, no rephrasing, and no grammar corrections. We now write more prompts than actual articles, papers or content. Before any of this AI, I trained as a journalist. I was taught how to …
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by Jasmine Koria As journalists, poets, coffee-fueled thesis draft writers…anyone who picks up a pen and dares the world to read their thoughts, I think we’ll all always have a special kind of love for the first platform that gave our work any kind of mainstream exposure. For me, it was the Salient. The official …
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by Adedoyin Ajayi After Norway’s victory over Iraq sealed their place in the round of 32 at the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup, their captain Martin Odegaard pulled out a drum adorned with their nation’s colours. The players and backroom staff sat on the pitch in a formation. In the stands, there was anticipation among …
by Lilian Elochukwu Terna-Ayua The 5th of February saw the expiration of the New START treaty between the United States and Russia. For the first time in decades, there are no legally binding caps on the world’s two largest nuclear powers, and no formal verification process ensuring transparency between the two countries. The icon of …
by Ivan Munguongeyo Across humanitarian and development organizations, enormous amounts of data are collected every year. Call it baseline surveys, midterm or endline evaluations. Whichever method is used, the intention is clear: to generate evidence that can guide programs and improve results. But much of that information never shapes decisions. It is collected, analyzed, written …
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by Jasmine Koria My name is Jasmine, which in Anglicized Mandarin is mo li hua. I learned this on a recent visit to China, a few years after I finished processing the fact that my great, great (great-great) grandfather came to Samoa from Northern China to work a job he never left. There are days …
by Similoluwa Ifedayo In two years as a Commonwealth Correspondent, I have written 20 articles. Eleven were named Editor’s Picks. Six times I earned Correspondent of the Month. But these numbers are not the story. They are the evidence of a different lesson: how to recognise good writing before anyone else does, how to feel …
by Joyce Wachau Chege We recently celebrated World Radio Day (Friday, February 13) and I could not help but make a few observations. I clearly remember when podcasts were becoming the new kid on the block and how people were quick to proclaim the death of radio. At this time, I had not started consuming …
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by Nafeesah Ahmed-Adedoja, February 14, 2026 Valentine’s Day arrives again, bringing the usual flood of heart-shaped chocolates and roses. But beneath the celebration, there’s a cost we rarely name: the silent tax of isolation, quietly claiming 100 lives every hour. We are the first generation to be so connected and yet so alone. We optimise …
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by Evans Ijakaa “Which do you think is the most useless major?” I have watched countless vox pop videos where communications repeatedly emerges as the default response. “What do they even study, how to communicate?” People’s attitudes toward the media are not the main problem. The main problem is whether media and media education are …
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