By Ciku Kimeria in Dakar SenegalJanuary 25, 2019 The recent release of the groundbreaking study by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French historian Bénédicte Savoy calling for the restitution of Africa’s looted assets has sparked debates from the art historians of Paris and London to the museums and cultural centers of Africa’s major cities. With over 90,000 African artifacts in […]
The 8 million square kilometers and 17 countries covered by this atlas encompass a wide range of landscapes from alluvial valleys in Senegal and Ghana, sandy plains and low plateaus across the Sahel, and rolling hills of Togo to rugged mountains with summits reaching over 1,500 m in Guinea and 1,800 m in Niger. Covering […]
Quartz, By Haleluya Hadero If you recently stumbled across what is loosely known as “African Twitter,” or other African social media spaces, you might have seen repeated mentions of Jollof rice. It’s a big deal, and a cause of endless banter for those on the continent, and in the diaspora. Jollof rice is a spiced […]
By TED ANTHONY UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The leader of Sierra Leone demanded Thursday that the U.N. Security Council reconfigure itself to add permanent representation for Africa, saying the continent’s “patience is being tested” by its longstanding exclusion. Julius Maada Bio, president of the West African nation, used blunt words in his annual U.N. General […]
Quartz, By Amindeh Blaise Atabong In Africa, crop pests and disease have been hampering agriculture productivity for decades. Africa farmers lose an estimated 49% of expected total crop yield per annum—the highest in the world – according to the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International. That’s likely to get worse as the impact of climate change worsens […]
By Bright Simons, Quartz The national character of Ghana is a permanent state of striving for global significance and a status of African exceptionalism. Ghanaians have for decades been bound to a narrative of their unique station in an African constellation of struggling states, which pedigree they have convinced themselves into believing deserves global attention […]
During his ten years as Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan was often spoken of as a figure of preternatural calm. He appeared, even to those who worked most closely with him, to be a man devoid of anger, who would never take things personally—a quality reflected in his habit of speaking, when matters of consequence […]
The culture Trip BY ADEBOYEJO Nigerians are known as enterprising people globally. Both at home and abroad, they have been able to make the best of every situation and succeed in different areas: academia, business, arts, and in many other endeavours. In agriculture, the younger generation, especially millennials, are taking the nation by storm. Here […]
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