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."
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 […]
With less than 100 of the critically endangered Mountain Bongo antelope left in the wild across the world, Kenya recently launched a campaign to save the rare African antelope. The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service recently launched the Mawingu […]
A lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene services have put approximately 250,000 children, displaced by escalating crises in a northern province of Mozambique, at risk from deadly diseases, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned. In less than two years, children and families in Cabo Delgado have faced a devastating cyclone, flooding, drought, socioeconomic hardship […]
TOM PAGE Saqqara, a dusty necropolis south of Cairo, has become instrumental in Egypt’s fightback against a tourist slump. It’s been an extraordinary year for archaeological discoveries at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, where separate finds have unearthed scores of sarcophagi and a host of artifacts, including an obelisk and a unique, bejeweled statue of […]
CHRISPIN MWAKIDEU US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has secured enough votes to become the next US leader. President Donald Trump has alleged fraud. And Africans are watching events with a mixture of bemusement and concern. Like the rest of the world, Africa has been paying close attention to the US election, since the United States […]