As US-based holding company African Agriculture Inc. (AAGR) has filed an initial public offering to fund a large-scale agribusiness project in the northern region of Saint-Louis in Senegal, local communities Read More..
Political and Social Commentary
Commonwealth in Kigali: another chance for Rwanda’s Kagame to project soft power
Image Source After the second world war, the United Kingdom dropped the use of terms like “British Empire” and “Imperial”. As each colony, protectorate or mandate gained independence it was Read More..
Is this the end of the French project in Africa’s Sahel?
Image Source On May 15, 2022, the military junta in Mali announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel platform. The G5 Sahel was created in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Read More..
Disease control centre confirms monkeypox ‘outbreak’ in Nigeria? No, headline misleading
“Nigeria confirms outbreak of Monkeypox with 558 cases and eight deaths,” reads the headline of an article in the Guardian, a Nigerian newspaper, on 10 May 2022. Its first paragraph adds that the Nigeria Centre for Read More..
Flawed Plans for Relocation of the Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Image Source Flawed Plans for Relocation of the Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area builds on field research conducted at two relocation sites — Msomera village in Handeni district and Kitwai Read More..
Senegalese art sensation Omar Ba reflects on colonialism at Dakar Biennale
Image Source Senegalese painter Omar Ba begins to paint a five-meter-long canvas a deep, dark shade of black. This is how Ba, a rising star in the world of contemporary Read More..