Nowinafrica Editorial board

When DJ Black Coffee — born Nkosinomi Mphande — arrived at the Royal Albert Hall in London last week, he walked onto a stage that has hosted everyone from the Beatles to Beyoncé. What he did there was less a performance than a declaration: that Africa’s contribution to global electronic music is no longer a

Uganda’s Ministry of Health confirmed on Tuesday that three additional cases of Ebola had been detected in the country, pushing the total number of confirmed infections to five. The announcement came as the World Health Organization warned that the outbreak, centred in the Democratic Republic of Congo but spreading across porous borders, posed a risk

When Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, in one of his final acts before being dismissed by President Faye, defended his government’s crackdown on LGBTQ individuals as a rejection of “homosexual tyranny,” he was articulating a sentiment that has been gaining ground across West Africa for the better part of a decade. Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Burkina

The World Health Organization has raised the public health risk assessment for the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to “very high,” a designation that triggers enhanced international protocols and signals that the situation is deteriorating faster than containment efforts can manage. The announcement, made Thursday, came alongside disturbing reports from eastern