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."
MICHAEL E. ODIJIE There are global efforts to fight modern slavery, but a few traditional systems still hold strong in west Africa. These include Osu, Ohu and Trokosi. The Conversation Africa’s Godfred Akoto Boafo spoke to Michael Odijie who has researched one of the systems – Osu – and what can be done to finally […]
In Ivory Coast, lêkê are the preferred footwear for amateur games and almost everything else. ELIAN PELTIER The wealthy pros of Ivory Coast’s national soccer team were resting in their luxury hotel, preparing for a match in Africa’s biggest tournament, when Yaya Camara sprinted onto a dusty lot and began fizzing one pass after another […]
Italy has handed back Ethiopia’s first ever plane, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Tuesday, January 30 about nine decades after it was taken by Italy’s Fascist invading forces. “Today is a day of great pride for Ethiopians as we celebrate the official handover of ‘Tsehay’ by the Italian Government,” Abiy said on his official […]
IAN BRENNAN The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: “best African music performance.” When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be “able to acknowledge and appreciate a broader array of artists” than the two existing global Grammy categories, where African artists […]
British Columbia is banning new post-secondary institutions from applying to enroll Nigerians and other international students for the next two years, as the province roots out “exploitive practices” plaguing the system. Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson said Monday that the freeze is necessary to correct faults in an international education system that “has not been […]
PATRICK ILUNGA The Congolese government says it has rectified a controversial mining deal it had signed with China, potentially upending what had looked like a source of bad relations between Kinshasa to Beijing. The new deal, officials said in early February, is a result of open negotiations with Beijing. It came 16 years after the […]
AGGREY MUTAMBO Somalia is the latest African country to ban single-use plastics, potentially boosting the growing campaign to limit the use of non-biodegradable packaging material in the war against global warming. A decree issued on Thursday February 1 by the Environment and Climate Change Ministry indicated that the country would stop single-use plastics from June […]
ISAAC MUGABI A national park that provides clean water to Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is under threat due to human activities, a UN report has said. Water is a scarce resource in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where it is not unusual to see groups of youths gathered around water taps, jostling for turns […]