Cameroonian couturier Imane Ayissi refuses to use wax prints dismissing it as “colonial”
Imane Ayissi is the first sub-Saharan designer to show in the élite Paris haute couture week. Not only is he…
Culture & Life
“Unprecedented” Locust Invasion Approaches Full-Blown Crisis
Locust swarms of biblical proportions are threatening crops across a wide swath of Africa and southwest Asia—spurring alarm among top…
Displacement and Dispossession in Tanzania: How “Conservation” is Destroying the Maasai
For the past eighty years, the Maasai have been displaced and dispossessed of their land, livelihoods, and more in Northern…
Meet Lual Mayen the Developer of “Salaam”, an Innovative Video Game
Lual Mayen is a 24 year old video game developer based in Washington, D.C. and CEO of Junub Games, a…
How Africa’s entrepreneurs can innovate and invest to put African cuisine on the world stage
Over the past six months, I have engaged in a simple experiment. In packed rooms in Europe and the United…
Temple graffiti reveals stories from ancient Sudan
Today the northern region of Sudan that borders with Egypt is mostly desert. But this part of the Nile’s valley…