Former UNESCO head Amadou Mahtar Mbow dead at 103
Senegalese intellectual and politician Amadou Mahtar Mbow, who headed the UN’s cultural agency, Unesco, for 13 years, has died at the…
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UN First Regional Forum on Gastronomy Tourism for Africa
UN Tourism’s first Regional Forum on Gastronomy Tourism for Africa has been lauded as a significant landmark in catalysing the…
Education technology for resilient and inclusive learning in Africa
There’s a lot of gaps in education in Africa in terms of connectivity and infrastructure. Reaching people with technology is…
Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books”
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into…
African agribusiness explores a geothermal opportunity
Geothermal energy, harnessed from the immense heat of the Earth’s core, has helped Kenya to make dramatic progress in extending…
From Somalia to south Oregon – how basketball reunites civil war survivors
Ashland, Oregon – Inside the gymnasium at Ashland Middle School, basketballs are bouncing off the backboards and freshly waxed floors,…