Image Source He founded BudgIT to help the citizens of the country understand the way the government spends money. Opaqueness in government behaviour is one of the roots of corruption. Read More..
Culture & Life
From the Niger to the Nile
Image Source On February 17, 1907, a brief note went out of the Dakar office of the Governor-General of French West Africa, addressed to subordinates. The governor had learned through Read More..
Music Stars From Botswana And Denmark Collaborate To Highlight Mental Health
Image Source “Troubled” is the lead single created by iconic Botswana artists teaming up with a Danish based production team for a new project exploring mental health in the creative Read More..
The Gambia Academy of Music and Culture seeks to systematically decolonize the education system and educate African children from the African perspective
Image Source The Gambian artist and “first female Kora virtuoso” from a west African Griot family, Sona Jobarteh, is building a cultural academy, The Gambia Academy of Music and Culture Read More..
Ibrahim Abougendy, the Egyptian designer who turns scrap into furniture – in pictures
Image Source Africa has long been known for upcycling – the creation of new goods from salvage ones – as part of daily life, for informal reuse of scrap materials Read More..
Surviving COVID-19: The Neglected Remedy
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), one of the biggest civil society movements in Africa, presents the “first mini-Barefoot Guide” and the “first in a new Agroecology” series “Surviving Read More..