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."
How did more than 600 Cameroonians come to find themselves stranded on a Caribbean Island that many of them had never heard of? Journalist Gemma Handy reports from St John’s in Antigua. Daniel fights to hold back the tears as he recounts the day his two younger brothers were shot dead by militia during a […]
FATMA BEN HAMAD As Tunisian authorities continue to carry out mass arrests of people from sub-Saharan Africa as part of a campaign against irregular migration, Black Tunisians report that they are experiencing increasing amounts of abuse. Black Tunisian women activists are now speaking out about this rampant racial profiling, denouncing the racist climate and showing […]
ALEX GITTA Uganda’s new anti-gay bill, which proposes punishing people who support or fund homosexuality, has widespread support from MPs — but rights activists say the bill is a diversion from the real issues affecting citizens. Ugandan lawmakers are hopeful that a new law designed to tighten restrictions on gay rights and activities will soon […]
DAVID WILDSTEIN Eunice Dwumfour, shot and killed on February 1, was opposed by local police union who sought to remove her as council liaison A 30-year-old Sayreville councilwoman who was shot and killed outside her home had faced opposition from the head of the local law enforcement union for being anti-police one month before her […]
LUCY FLEMING Ethiopia has restricted social media and messaging platforms ahead of rival planned rallies following a split in the popular Orthodox Church. The row has caused deadly violence and began in January when some clerics accused the main church of ethnic discrimination, which it denies. The authorities banned protests by both sides due to […]
Tanzania has floated East Africa’s largest-ever domestically manufactured freshwater passenger and cargo ship, the MV Mwanza Hapa Kazi Tu, on Lake Victoria. The ship, launched at the Mwanza South Port on February 12, can carry 1,200 passengers, 400 tons of cargo, 20 small vehicles and three trucks. It is currently 82 percent complete. “Up to […]
HANNAH BROCKHAUS In his first speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, January 31 Pope Francis urged the international community to give the central African country its autonomy while not turning a blind eye to exploitation and violence. “This country and this continent deserve to be respected and listened to; they deserve to […]
TERRY GROSS Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kara, a fellow at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Kennedy School, […]
Beyond Good has done what no chocolate brand has done before it EMILY MONACO Over 70% of the world’s chocolate comes from Africa — and yet there’s only one U.S. brand making its chocolate on the continent. Ironic? Yes. But it also sheds light on what’s so broken about the chocolate industry, not to mention […]
DIANA HODALI Abortions are illegal in Egypt unless they are necessary to save a married woman’s life. But that doesn’t stop local women from having one. Egyptian society needs to acknowledge this, activists say. The memory of that day is still very painful for Noura. She was in Cairo’s City Stars Mall when she suddenly […]