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."
Africa’s energy needs are growing. This has led some governments to turn to coal-powered plants. Critics say that’s not a smart move in times of climate change and point to the continent’s renewable energy resources. In South Africa, power outages are not the exception but the rule. In the past, those power cuts often occurred […]
WAHANY JOHNSON SAMBOU It’s a first of its kind in Senegal, an ostrich farm. Over the past seven years, these rare birds have become the economic powerhouse of Mlomp, a village in Casamance, southern Senegal. And now the whole community depends on these ostriches. A profitable farming business. “Nothing is discarded in the ostrich business. […]
Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan announces death of 61-year-old after weeks of uncertainty over his health and whereabouts. Tanzanian President John Magufuli has died, the country’s vice president announced, after weeks of uncertainty over his health and whereabouts. In a televised address to the nation late on Wednesday, March 17, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan […]
CHRISTOPHE KOFFI Cashews are big business in Ivory Coast, the world’s leading producer, and the country is waging an intensifying campaign to stop smuggling of the nut known there as “grey gold”. The West African nation has strengthened its laws to punish those caught sneaking the nuts over its borders and is trying to make […]
Morocco, a country where large volumes of cannabis are grown illicitly, is considering legalizing production for therapeutic use of the drug, the government said Thursday, February 25, 2021. The government has “begun to study a legislative bill relating to the legal use of cannabis,” it said in a statement. The draft text, seen by AFP, […]
The City of London Corporation voted on Thursday to remove the statues of two 17th and 18th century figures because they had accrued wealth from slavery. The local authority that runs London’s historic financial district is to remove the statues of two British colonial-era politicians over their links to the slave trade. The City of […]
SALEM SOLOMONAs the United States marked the inauguration of Vice President Kamala Harris — the first woman, the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent to hold the office — other lawmakers with foreign roots are breaking barriers across the country. Among them is Representative Esther Agbaje of Minnesota, who this […]
ABU MUBARIK Maggie Wakori Mukei started her career as a receptionist after completing a diploma in Professional Computing and Information Technology (PCIT). Three years later, she quit her job, got married, and started a business in Nairobi with her husband. Since then, “we have explored so many things from selling fresh fruit to cereals, confectionery, […]
MARTINA SCHWIKOWSKI Research has shown that inequality in access to land is increasing across the African continent. Experts are calling for more rules and controls on the sale of land to counteract poverty. A lucrative building boom for some people on Kenya’s coastal regions is causing great suffering for many fisherfolk. In Tudor, the northern […]
FERNANDO DUARTE When Innocent Havyarimana started his soap-making business in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp in early 2015, he was trying to move on from the traumatic events that had made him flee his native Burundi a year earlier. Little did he know that his cottage enterprise would become a major weapon in the fight against […]