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."
As his newest sculptures fill Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Ghanaian artist is returning to his roots and thinking about his legacy. SIDDHARTHA MITTER It’s one of the great origin stories in contemporary art, a flash of instinct that would revolutionize a field. In 1998, El Anatsui was walking around Nsukka, Nigeria, and noticed a […]
HISHAM ALLAM The Egyptian government is clearing a vast area in Historic Cairo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to make way for new main roads and flyover bridges, which it says will improve traffic flow in the sprawling, congested megacity. The developments are being pitched as part of an effort to modernize Egypt and connect […]
KATE BARTLETT Africa is the site of a new battle for influence as Washington ramps up efforts to build alternative critical minerals supply chain to avoid reliance on China. Beijing dominates the processing of critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium and other resources from the continent that are needed for the transition to clean energy […]
MOHAMMED YUSUF A Kenyan court has dismissed a case challenging the importation of genetically modified foods, letting stand an earlier court ruling allowing the entry of so-called GMOs. The Law Society of Kenya, the nation’s premier bar association that petitioned the court, argued that genetically modified food was unsafe for humans and that lifting a […]
MAINA WARURU Women in pastoralist areas of East Africa are critical to the health of livestock in their communities, holding the key to effective animal vaccination campaigns meant to protect herds against deadly diseases. They are, therefore, an important part of any vaccination strategies designed to guard the animals against killer outbreaks and need to […]
The thought of a dam spillage and/or breakage is not very comfortable: it could be rather ominous, threatening, worrying and menacing. And especially for those living in the water’s flow path the thought could be a warning most gloomy. The Volta River Authority, (VRA) managers of Ghana’s premier hydro-electric dam at Akosombo in the Eastern […]
MOISE M. BAHATI African governments have been urged to fast-track the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in order to solve food security issues that affect more than 20 per cent of the continent’s 1.4 billion people. The faster implementation of the AfCFTA and supporting the agricultural value chain are two of […]
KITSEPILE NYATHI Zimbabwe has introduced a new gold-backed digital currency as it battles to stop re-dollarization, which President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government fears will spell doom for the country’s fragile economy. The country’s central bank said the digital tokens, also known as Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), that are dominated in milligrams, can be used by both individuals […]
This is part of efforts to mitigate the mass exodus of health workers to developed countries, which has led to an acute shortage of health professionals in the nation’s health sector. NIKE ADEBOWALE-TAMBE The Nigerian government has approved the appointment of doctors, nurses, and other clinical healthcare workers as contract staff after attaining their compulsory […]
JON HAMILTON A global effort to make genetic studies more diverse has led to a discovery about Parkinson’s disease, a common brain disorder that can impair a person’s ability to move and speak. A team that included scientists from Lagos, London and the U.S. found a previously unknown gene variant that can nearly quadruple the […]