Pushing Feature Phone Learning in Kenya
Ed-tech startup Eneza Education has partnered with the Mastercard Foundation to launch its SMS-based learning platform Shupavu in Rwanda, enabling students to remain engaged in their studies while they wait for schools to reopen. Launched in 2013, Eneza Education provides learning and revision materials via any phone, however basic, and is active in Kenya, Ghana, […]
The French Legacy in Africa
The severed heads of the resistance fighters were displayed in a market square first. Then they were shipped back to private collections in Paris. For decades, they were boxed up in a museum basement and finally, this July, Emmanuel Macron sent them home. For President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the moment was recognition of a massacre by […]
Ghana’s Latest Attempt to Improve the Livelihoods of its Farmers
The West African has announced an increase of the guaranteed the cocoa price it pays to farmers by 28% per ton for the new growing season. However, the latest increment in the cocoa price means that farmers can afford to plant new cocoa and also employ skilled workers, as opposed to child labor. “The increase […]
Bobi Wine Gets a Taste of What Opposing Museveni Means
Ugandan police and military forces armed with door cutters, AK-47 guns, tear gas canisters and batons stormed offices of the National Unity Platform party in Kampala on Wednesday. The party’s spokesperson, said the officers took items from the office of party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by his stage name Bobi Wine. In a written […]
A Success Story that Started from Cameroon to Harvard
A Cameroonian health researcher whose tweet on his rise from his village to Harvard University went viral has spoken about his success story. Dr Desmond Jumbam tweeted a photo of a simple shack of a house next to a Harvard University badge. The photo received more than two million likes. Dr Jumbam said he had always […]
What is Behind Namibia’s #Shutitalldown Movement?
Demanding justice, like-minded campaigners have swiftly mobilised through social media to protest against sexual gender-based violence (SGBV). Marching through the streets of Windhoek and other Namibian cities, they pledged to keep protesting until substantial political action was taken to address femicide, rape and sexual abuse. SGBV is a persistent problem in Namibia, in particular, intimate-partner […]
Mozambique Publishes its Proposed Model for a Sovereign Wealth Fund
The country is preparing to reap as much as $96bn — more than six times the size of its current GDP — from liquefied natural gas projects that companies including Total are building. The developments, which are the biggest private investments yet in Africa, could make Mozambique the continent’s second-biggest producer of the fuel. The […]
How to Increase African Authorship on Climate Change
Biometeorological research is particularly important in Africa. The continent is projected to experience temperature increases bigger than the global mean throughout the 21st century. Changes in rainfall distribution are projected to heighten the occurrence and severity of droughts, floods and extreme climate events. But the continent is still not well represented in academic output in […]
Despite Sanctions, al Shabaab has Found Ways to Extort, Move and Invest Money
Al Shabaab, the Somalia-based militant group that is Al Qaeda’s most powerful ally in Africa, is not only collecting millions of dollars in tariffs and payoffs but moving the money through local banks and even investing it in real estate and businesses, according to a new United Nations Security Council report. The report describes how […]
Africa’s Strategy as it Lobbies the G20
Vera Songwe, head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, is co-ordinating an appeal by African finance ministers for $100 billion a year for the next three years to support stricken economies on the continent. This is a fraction of the fiscal and monetary stimulus already delivered in the U.S. and Europe when compared to […]
