Senegalese intellectual and politician Amadou Mahtar Mbow, who headed the UN’s cultural agency, Unesco, for 13 years, has died at the age of 103, Senegal’s press agency (APS) said on Tuesday Read More..
Political and Social Commentary
UN First Regional Forum on Gastronomy Tourism for Africa
UN Tourism’s first Regional Forum on Gastronomy Tourism for Africa has been lauded as a significant landmark in catalysing the growth of culinary tourism across the host country of Zimbabwe Read More..
Education technology for resilient and inclusive learning in Africa
There’s a lot of gaps in education in Africa in terms of connectivity and infrastructure. Reaching people with technology is riddled with challenges from accessibility to policy and the lack Read More..
Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books”
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki Bgoya, speaks about its significance in Read More..
African agribusiness explores a geothermal opportunity
Geothermal energy, harnessed from the immense heat of the Earth’s core, has helped Kenya to make dramatic progress in extending access to electricity in recent years. Geothermal power plants now Read More..
From Somalia to south Oregon – how basketball reunites civil war survivors
Ashland, Oregon – Inside the gymnasium at Ashland Middle School, basketballs are bouncing off the backboards and freshly waxed floors, footballs are being kicked between clumsily erected goalposts, and a Read More..