Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA Rwanda expects the first group of 50 asylum seekers to be transferred from Britain by the end of May, a government spokesperson said on Thursday May 19. In April the British government announced plans to send people seeking asylum to the East African country, but earlier this month said it expected lawyers to […]
LUCIE PEYTERMANN In a serene studio filled with birdsong, Omar Ba takes off his shoes and gets down on his hands and knees. Then the renowned Senegalese artist begins to paint a five-meter-long canvas a deep, dark shade of black. This is how Ba, a rising star in the world of contemporary African art, starts […]
Zimbabwe on Monday May 16 sought the support of the European Union to sell off US$600 million worth of ivory it has accumulated due to the global ban on the sale of tusks. International trade in ivory has been banned since 1989 under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and […]
ISABEL MALSANG As Europe struggles to decarbonize its economy and wean itself off Russian oil and gas, one of the world’s sunniest and most arid nations is pitching itself to the continent as an answer to its problems. A delegation from sub-Saharan Africa’s driest country has been touring Europe to tout their nation as a […]
FAUSTINE NGILA When Ethiopia announced on May 9 that it was launching trials for its first 5G mobile network in its capital, it joined more than a dozen African countries that are either testing or have rolled out the next-gen network. But just as for its 5G peers, the journey isn’t going to be smooth. […]
DOMINIC OMONDI Kenya is now desperately shopping for maize from all corners of the world as its silos run out of this critical grain. Bad weather, coupled with global factors such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the lingering effects of Covid-19, have conspired to create a maize shortage in the country, with many families finding […]
Arguments for gas exploration and gas-fired power infrastructure in Africa are robbing us of vital time to switch to clean energy. VANESSA NAKATE At the start of this century, when much of the developed world woke up to the dangers of smoking, Big Tobacco turned to Africa to seek out new profits. To this day, […]
SETH ONYANGO Africa now accounts for 70% of the world’s $1 trillion mobile money value. The value of Africa’s mobile money transactions edged up 39% to $701.4 billion in 2021 from $495 billion in 2020, highlighting the future of African banking is mobile. GSMA’s figures released on Apr. 21, show the volume of mobile money […]
ARISON TAMFU In Ekali, a village on the outskirts of Cameroon’s capital city Yaounde, the rhythms of tam-tam, a centuries-old traditional drum fills the air. Martin Mbezele Zambo has made a name for himself in the village as one of the best tam-tam drum makers. At 42, Zambo has spent most of his life manufacturing […]
At least five members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet are seeking to succeed him in 2023. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all members of his cabinet who nurse political ambitions to resign their current appointments, according to the country’s information minister. “The mandate I have from the president is to announce that all members […]