Felabration Unveils Plan for 2019 Edition
Organisers of the annual week-long festivity to commemorate the life of the Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has unveiled plans for…
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Africa’s job market: what are the challenges?
The 2019 Ibrahim Forum Report highlighted the links between demography, economic prospects and mobility. In a context of a booming youth population…
39 years since Walter Rodney fell; Andaiye, Walter Rodney’s colleague has rejoined the ancestors
This is a tribute of Eusi Kwayana to Andaiye, which captures her connection to the Rodney legacy, and the political and humanist…
The fading pride of Amazigh tattoos
For Africa’s indigenous Amazighs, body art was more than mere images. They were a decisive social, almost poetic, marker for…
“They don’t see us; they just don’t care” – Stories from Saharawi freedom fighters
The story of Western Sahara, “the last colony in Africa”, is one of flagrant international law violation, and four decades…
Ethiopia plants world-record 350 million trees in a day, officials say
Volunteers in Ethiopia have planted more than 350 Million trees (353,633,660 seedlings) on Monday, July 28, 2019, to fight deforestation…