Joanne Clarke, Elizabeth Edna Wangui, Grace W. Ngaruiya & Nick Brooks Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development. The conversations taking place are mainly on the […]
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Campaigners welcome decision after years of protest against ‘Mohrenstraße’ name Berlin authorities have announced they are to rename Mohrenstraße (“Moor Street”) in the city’s Mitte district after the country’s first black philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo. The decision follows years of protest by postcolonial campaigners, including historians and ethnologists, who had criticized the street name as […]
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Nii Ntreh Burundi has asked former colonizers Germany and Belgium to pay about €36 billion ($42.6 billion) as reparative justice for when the two European nations controlled the east African territory that became a sovereign country. Reports say Burundi’s upper legislative body has constituted a team of experts to critically assess how much is owed […]
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Since political independence, various governments have embarked on electrification of the country. While hydroelectric dams such as the ones at Akosombo and Bui generate 14.5 kilovolts (kv), thermal plants elsewhere generate 13.5 kilovolts. Both go through step up transformers to produce 161 kilovolts that are transmitted on pylons and distributed throughout the country. The 161 […]
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Western influences and attempt to fuse or reconcile such influences with longstanding traditions have created many quandaries for today’s Akan and other Africans. Marriage is one area rife with such quandaries. Just as a Western or Caucasian marriage (wedding) is not part of Akan or African culture, so is it that a married Akan woman […]
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Human trafficking is a problem in Malawi, with teenage boys forced to work as farm laborer’s, and young women to sexual exploitation in nightclubs or bars. The UN is supporting the Malawian governments to end the practice and protect vulnerable people. The six men from Nepal believed they were heading to the United States for […]
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The Black Lives Matter movement which started in the U.S. and gained international recognition did not occur in a vacuum. It has facilitated black consciousness and awareness that has not been experienced since the Civil Rights era in the 60s. And this time around, the impact and ripple effects are felt beyond the shores of […]
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The Black Lives Matter movement which started in the U.S. and gained international recognition did not occur in a vacuum. It has facilitated black consciousness and awareness that has not been experienced since the Civil Rights era in the 60s. And this time around, the impact and ripple effects are felt beyond the shores of […]
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France’s former African colonies are celebrating 60 years of independence. But France’s influence remains all pervasive and critics say it is time that Africans cut the umbilical cord and put an end to Françafrique. “60 years on, francophone countries in Africa still do not have true independence and freedom from France,” says Nathalie Yamb, adviser […]
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Warning: This article contains offensive language As anti-racism protests swept through various parts of the world following African-American George Floyd’s death in police custody in the US, Sudan seemed to be in a completely different world. There was little take-up in Sudan of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Instead many Sudanese social media users hurled racial abuse […]
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