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."
MAY ANGEL The producers of half the world’s cocoa – Ivory Coast and Ghana – have struggled to sell beans and pay farmers this year due to ample global harvests, lower cocoa prices and falling demand from chocolate makers for the ingredient. Why did the two countries fare worse than rival producers and what are […]
The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. MARINA ESCOLANO-POVEDA The beginnings of hieroglyphic writing date back to the birth of ancient Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium B.C. It was in this period […]
One to two cups of caffeinated tea per day helps too, researchers found after following nearly 132,000 people for 40 years. PAM BELLUCK If you think your daily doses of espresso or Earl Grey sharpen your mind, you just might be right, new science suggests. A large new study provides evidence of cognitive benefits from […]
TOMMY TRENCHARD Squinting against the dust kicked up by the helicopter’s rotor blades, dental therapist Senate Makhoali crouches low, loads up her equipment and jumps on board. Already this morning she’s endured a hair-raising, stormy flight in a tiny Cessna 206 airplane to land on a precarious mountain ridge. Now, she steels herself for a […]
The Zafimaniry people of Madagascar are confronting a difficult choice about their future as deforestation and globalization reshape their way of life. Fewer than 15,000 members of this forest-based community live in the “land of mist” on the southern edge of the country’s central highlands, where decades of heavy deforestation have left many hills bare. […]
TENDAIISHE BEREJENA & FLORENCE MALONGANE African indigenous food groups present an exciting area to explore when it comes to taste and nutrition. They may even offer potential as nutritional therapy for people with health problems. Foods like jute mallow, pearl and finger millet, wild medlar, caterpillars and bambara nuts all have nutritional properties that could […]
“I would rather die before I returned to Burundi.” CLAYTON BOEYINK, JEAN-BENOIT FALISSE & STEPHANIE SCHWARTZ For years, Burundian refugees living in Tanzanian camps have faced coercion by the Tanzanian authorities to return home to where they risk crushing poverty, government persecution, and the potential violence of local land conflicts. Now, yet again, the Tanzanian […]
Drought-hit counties face alarming malnutrition and water shortages as livestock perish and hunger intensifies. Severe drought has left more than two million Kenyans facing hunger with northeastern cattle-raising communities suffering the most, according to the United Nations. Disturbing images of starving livestock near the Somali border have recently underscored the devastating impacts of climate change […]
DOMINIKA TOMASZEWSKA-MORTIMER Relentless violence, famine and disease are fueling a rising death toll among children in Sudan, while attacks on healthcare and a lack of aid access hamper efforts to help them, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday, February 10. As heavy fighting continues between former allies the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid […]
JAN-PHILIPP SCHOLZ The crossing between Western Africa and the Canary Islands is considered the most deadly sea migration route to the EU. People who attempt to cross face rough seas in overcrowded boats, and, in some cases, violence. The boat carrying Ismael Outtara and his family had been adrift in the Atlantic Ocean between southern […]