Togo Pushes for Sustainable Fashion at Annual International Fashion Festival
A number of fashion designers and lovers flocked to the event with different designs being showcased at the colorful evening.The occasion did not only provide an opportunity to discover the latest trends in African fashion but also reflected on an issue that has become crucial today that is the creation of an eco-responsible fashion. One […]
Life for Many African Footballers Who Aspire to Successful Careers Overseas
Migration has long been an important livelihood strategy in many African countries. Migrating through football has more recently come to be viewed by increasing numbers of young people as a viable route to significantly improving their life chances. This trend is a consequence of multiple intersecting factors, ranging from economic precarity, a declining faith in […]
Juba’s Class of 2021 Told to Invest in Own Narrative
The head of one of South Sudan’s top private universities says the country’s institutions must invest in research. “There are Europeans who become experts on South Sudan – because South Sudanese don’t write research about South Sudan. We are tired of non-Africans writing research about Africa,” said Chancellor Kenneth Mutuma Wyne to graduating students of […]
Using Technology to Bridge the Continent’s Health Service Gap
Despite the surging number of cases, most African governments spend less than one per cent of their allocated health budget on mental illness. Researchers found that there are only 1.4 mental health workers per 100,000 people in Africa, compared with a global average of nine per 100,000. This fact, plus the overall weak health infrastructure, […]
Bamako To Stick to Military Rule for One Term
Mali’s lawmakers have approved a plan allowing the military government to rule for up to five years, despite regional sanctions imposed on the country over delayed elections. The army-dominated legislature also decided that the country’s interim president cannot stand for a future democratic election, as part of the same bill. It also voted to forbid […]
Congolese Gallery Takes US Museum On
A statue depicting the angry spirit of a Belgian officer beheaded during an uprising in Congo in 1931 is at the centre of a tug of war between a US museum and a Congolese gallery at the site of the rebellion. The statue of Maximilien Balot, a colonial administrator, has travelled to Europe but the […]
The First Official Igbo Lecturer at Oxford University
The University of Oxford, England, has introduced the teaching of Igbo Language as a course in the university. Igbo is spoken mainly by the Igbo people who occupy the South-east region of Nigeria and millions of people of Igbo extraction who reside in different parts of the world. “It is official that I am the […]
Zimbabwe Opposition Pulls in the Numbers
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Sunday held a rally in one of the poorest suburbs under strict conditions that police set. Police maintained a heavy presence in and around the area where the rally was held. These are members of the Zimbabwe Citizens’ Coalition for Change welcoming leader Nelson Chamisa at a rally in Harare. Citizens’ […]
The Human Cost of Abuja’s Security Strategy
Reports by Medicins Sans Frontières that the Nigerian military had killed and wounded children in an airstrike on 18 February in the village of Nachadé, in neighbouring Niger Republic will focus attention again on the human costs of Abuja’s security strategy. Nigeria’s military says it is investigating the Nachadé incident. It may also raise questions […]
Abiy Switches On Controversial Dam
Ethiopia began producing electricity on Sunday from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a multi-billion-dollar hydropower plant on the River Nile that neighbours Sudan and Egypt have worried will cause water shortages downstream. After flicking a digital switch to turn on the turbines in the first phase of the project, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sought […]
