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."
SOLOMON EKANEM Zambia has started accepting China’s yuan for mining taxes, becoming the first African nation to do so. This reflects China’s increasing financial influence in Africa’s strategic resource sectors. The Bank of Zambia is aligning its reserve management with the significant role of China as a major copper trade and debt […]
CRISTINA BURACK Best known for large-scale burlap sack installations, Ibrahim Mahama is helping shift power in the art world to the Global South while redefining art as a collective practice. A rough burlap sack launched Ibrahim Mahama to global fame. In 2015, when Mahama was in his late 20s and finishing up his fine arts […]
Facing unemployment and social tensions, young people in Madagascar are returning to ancestral possession rituals and traditions tied to identity and belonging. In a small town near Mahajanga, chants of the Sakalava, one of Madagascar’s ethnic groups, drift through the open windows of a house where around 60 guests, mostly young people, are gathered in […]
Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging utilities. SOMINI SENGUPTA Ismet Booley, a dentist in Cape Town, had a serious problem a few years ago. Patients showed up for appointments, only to find the power had gone out. No power meant no X-rays, […]