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."
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 […]
PAUL NJIE French President Emmanuel Macron has invited his Chadian counterpart to Paris, as both countries seek to renew and improve future relations. The verbal invitation was delivered to President Mahamat Déby by France’s Ambassador to Chad, Éric Gérard, during a meeting at the presidential palace in the capital, N’Djamena, on Monday, January 26. In […]
KHANYISILE NGCOBO South Africa has expelled Israel’s top diplomat in the country for “violating diplomatic norms”, a move that prompted Israel to kick out a South African envoy in retaliation. The diplomatic row started when South Africa’s foreign affairs ministry declared Ariel Seidman, chargé d’affaires at the Israeli embassy, persona non grata and gave him […]
BROOKE NEWMAN In this adapted excerpt from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met with silence One autumn day in 1786, an unexpected parcel arrived at Carlton House, the London residence of George, Prince […]
Case brought by Muslim leaders and MP follows failed 2024 bid and seen as part of global anti-women’s rights backlash SARAH JOHNSON A group of religious leaders and an MP in the Gambia have launched efforts to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation at the country’s supreme court. The court case, due to resume […]
Meagan Good began dating Jonathan Majors in 2023 BOUBACAR DIALLO Hollywood actors Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have been granted Guinean citizenship, tracing their ancestry to the West African nation via DNA testing. The pair received their new nationality in a private ceremony in Conakry on Friday, January 9, 2026. They were scheduled to tour […]
PULCHERIE ADJOHA & ROBBIE COREY-BOULET Citizenship program part of Benin’s plan to raise global profile Thousands have applied, about 50 approved so far Spike Lee named ambassador to African-Americans Isaline Attelly, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, had been living in Benin for nearly a year before she learned that her family’s connection […]
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 […]