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."
DJAMILIA PRANGE de OLIVEIRA For Juliana Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba wasn’t just an independence leader and politician. He has her father. That’s why she continues to call for the truth about Lumumba’s assassination 64 years ago.For more than 60 years, Juliana Lumumba has had questions. Who murdered her father? How did the Americans help? What did […]
Child marriage and sexual violence plague women and girls as climate change threatens the northern Marsabit region. TOM PARRY As the sun approaches its scorching zenith, Dukano Kelle heads out from the desolate settlement of Kambinye in northern Kenya, urging her family’s reluctant donkey forward by whipping it with an acacia branch. Though the oppressive […]
At her ‘Home of Hope’, Edith Lukabwe cares for children abandoned by their families. CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS On a muddy, uneven and unnamed road on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jinja, children laugh and play in a compound surrounded by green hills and sugarcane plantations. A child hurtles his wheelchair down the driveway at […]
DAVID EHL Cameroon’s displacement crises are overlooked and underfunded: nowhere else is there such disparity between the political and media attention and the gravity of the situation, reports the Norwegian Refugee Council. Whenever a conflict flares up anywhere in the world, there’s generally three things outsiders can do. Governments and institutions can mediate at the […]
Namibia on Wednesday, May 28 held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century. However, some organizations representing victims’ descendants have declined to take part. MELISSA CHEMAM Between 1904 and 1908, German troops massacred tens of […]
Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a cemetery at the former military camp of Thiaroye outside Dakar, where French soldiers massacred African colonial troops. Excavations at the Thiaroye military cemetery began in early May. These are aimed at shedding light on the events of […]
Zambia’s maize harvest will more than double from last year’s 16-year low to a record, the government said, in a move that could help curb soaring consumer prices and raise the prospect of rate cuts. Farmers produced an estimated 3.66 million tons of the staple crop, up from 1.5 million tons a year earlier, Acting […]
As the United States and other economic powers reduce their investment, aid and presence in Africa, the United Arab Emirates is wielding its wealth. PATRICIA COHEN Look at the chief economic and strategic spots across Africa — ports for key trade corridors, mines that produce critical minerals, large renewable energy projects — and you will […]
ANDREW WASIKE Two years after Uganda passed its controversial Anti-Homosexuality Act, a quiet but determined resistance is rising: mothers standing by their LGBTQ+ children. In a country where identifying as gay can result in life imprisonment, and “aggravated homosexuality” carries the death penalty, some parents are defying the law and society to stand by their […]
BOB RUBILA The African continent is experiencing a remarkable geological transformation right before our eyes. Scientists have confirmed that East Africa is gradually splitting apart, with visible evidence of this continental fracture already appearing. This extraordinary process could eventually create a new ocean, forever changing the map of Africa as we know it. The great […]