Photo: Glenn Research Center / Wikimedia Commons (PUBLIC DOMAIN) This year’s World Cup, which begins on June 11 across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, features 10 African teams, more than ever before. But despite African success on the soccer field, many fans from African countries do not feel welcome at the World Cup. FIFA’s […]
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During apartheid, South Africans preferred Afrikaners because we knew where we stood with them. If they did not like someone, they made it clear, unlike English-speaking white people who were perceived as masking prejudice behind politeness, their grins being one of the most commonly cited examples of their deceitfulness. The “foreigners must go” campaign seems
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Photo: Mpapierre / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus arrived in Kinshasa ahead of a planned visit to the eastern province of Ituri, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak. We also speak to an investor who returned to DR Congo to grow chillis. Finally, the Caen Memorial in France is presenting an
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From Lagos to Enugu, a wave of TikTok and Instagram influencers are hawking unverified herbal remedies for everything from infertility to diabetes, drawing millions of views and raising urgent questions about platform responsibility and the state of public health communication.
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In the streets of Kinshasa, they are known by different names depending on who is describing them. The youth wing of Congo’s ruling party is referred to by some residents as the street fighters, by others as Tshisekedi’s enforcers, and by yet others simply as a militia. What is not in dispute is their presence,
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Ghana’s Parliament has passed one of the most comprehensive anti-LGBTQ pieces of legislation on the African continent, criminalising not only same-sex conduct but also the promotion, funding, or public support of LGBTQ identities. The bill, which passed with a comfortable majority after a heated all-night debate, has sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles, human rights organisations,
In the scorched plains of central Namibia, a team of forensic archaeologists is painstakingly extracting human remains from mass graves that have lain undisturbed for over a century. The work is painstaking, methodical, and deeply controversial — and it is forcing Namibia, and the world, to confront a chapter of colonial violence that has long
A Different Kind of African Political Story Cape Verde’s opposition party, the African Party for the Independence of Senegal (PAICV), has secured a commanding parliamentary majority in elections widely seen as a referendum on the ruling Mwiire Party’s economic stewardship and its handling of a slowing post-pandemic recovery. The result, confirmed after a closely watched
A Legislative Landmark in West Africa Ghana’s parliament has approved one of the most comprehensive anti-LGBTQ pieces of legislation on the African continent, criminalising same-sex relationships with penalties that include extended prison sentences and marking a dramatic shift in the West African nation’s approach to gay rights. The law, which passed with overwhelming cross-party support,
On the night of May 27th, a dormitory at Utumishi Girls Secondary School in Gilgil, central Kenya, became a tomb. Fire swept through the building before dawn, killing at least sixteen students and injuring seventy-nine more. Among the survivors, many are fighting for their lives in hospital burns units that were already overstretched before this
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