No evidence that 40% of medicines sold in Africa are fake
A reader recently contacted Africa Check to verify if a claim that as many as 40% of medicines sold in Africa were…
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Africa’s largest city has a habit of kicking out its poor to make room for the rich
A typical day on Tarkwa Bay, an island on the Lagos lagoon, sees dozens of tourists come in to visit…
Reformed World Bank Program Still Fails the Farmers
In 2013, the World Bank launched the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, aimed at guiding pro-business reforms in the…
Supertrees: Meet Congo’s caretaker of the forest
YANGAMBI RESEARCH STATION, Democratic Republic of Congo — A pair of 70 horsepower outboard motors cut the river journey westward,…
Zimbabwe’s Shashe agroecology village: an inspiration for emancipatory rural initiatives
Farmers of Shashe, a village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, are becoming an African inspiration for agroecology and emancipation. Shashe was…
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…