A typical day on Tarkwa Bay, an island on the Lagos lagoon, sees dozens of tourists come in to visit its famous beaches while residents of a decades-old slum community Read More..
Culture & Life
Reformed World Bank Program Still Fails the Farmers
In 2013, the World Bank launched the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, aimed at guiding pro-business reforms in the agriculture sector. It was initially commissioned to support the New Read More..
Supertrees: Meet Congo’s caretaker of the forest
YANGAMBI RESEARCH STATION, Democratic Republic of Congo — A pair of 70 horsepower outboard motors cut the river journey westward, from the city of Kisangani, to just two hours. By the Read More..
Zimbabwe’s Shashe agroecology village: an inspiration for emancipatory rural initiatives
Farmers of Shashe, a village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, are becoming an African inspiration for agroecology and emancipation. Shashe was the first area to be occupied in Masvingo Province when Read More..
Cameroonian couturier Imane Ayissi refuses to use wax prints dismissing it as “colonial”
Imane Ayissi is the first sub-Saharan designer to show in the élite Paris haute couture week. Not only is he joining fashion’s crème de la crème, the Cameroonian couturier is Read More..
“Unprecedented” Locust Invasion Approaches Full-Blown Crisis
Locust swarms of biblical proportions are threatening crops across a wide swath of Africa and southwest Asia—spurring alarm among top international officials.A major concern is famine. The United Nations is Read More..