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."
For Mariam Chabi Talata, legalizing abortion and educating girls are essential first steps in giving women control of their future JILL FILIPOVIC Years ago, Mariam Chabi Talata says, she knew a girl who got in some trouble. The girl thought she could not tell her parents, and she could not go to hospital, because the […]
MARY PRENDERGAST Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity, and with each new fossil and archaeological discovery, we learn more about our shared African past. Such research tends to focus on when our species, Homo […]
CARA ANNA Safia Ibrahim’s business was in trouble. COVID-19 had taken hold in Somaliland, in the Horn of Africa. The 50-year-old widow with 10 children to support set out door to door on the capital’s outskirts, a razor at hand, taking advantage of the lockdown to seek work with a question: Have your daughters been […]
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR A man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo identified simply as Luwizo has tied the knot with triplets in a colorful ceremony. The 32-year-old got married to triplets, Nadege, Natacha, and Nathalie, in the ceremony held last month in Karehe, located in South Kivu, DR Congo. In an interview with Afrimax […]
HANSI Lo WANG There’s a reality about race in the U.S. that has confounded many people of Middle Eastern or North African descent. The federal government officially categorizes people with origins in Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and other countries in the MENA region as white. But that racial identity has not matched the discrimination in housing, […]
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has “increased almost tenfold” over the past three years and “displacement by nearly 400 per cent”. The vast Sahel, which runs nearly the breadth of the […]
Thousands took to the streets as relations between Mali and its former colonial power have been steadily deteriorating. Thousands of anti-French demonstrators have poured into the street of the Malian capital, Bamako, to cheer at the expulsion of the French ambassador. The celebrations on Friday, February 4, where people waved Russian flags and burned cardboard […]
The International Court of Justice orders Kampala to pay the damages which is a fraction of the $11bn demanded by Kinshasa. The UN’s top court on Wednesday February 9 ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325m in reparations over a brutal war between the African neighbors that began in the […]
JAMES KAMALA MORE than 800 youths in Dar es Salaam and Coast regions have been equipped with skills of turning garbage into charcoal and other products used for human consumption. The initiatives aim at safeguarding the environment and combating Climate change and its effects while promoting economic activities. Sauti ya Jamii Kipunguni Executive Director, Mr […]
Religious police in northern Nigeria’s city of Kano have destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer, on grounds that sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the predominantly Muslim region. Sharia police called Hisbah often destroy alcohol and confiscated drugs, but the huge beer haul was one of the largest in a recently intensified […]