Browsing: Africa

More than 150 Kenyan riot police have arrived in Haiti’s capital, just days after US President Donald Trump halted funding for a Nairobi-led UN security mission.…

Over the years, many have accused the United States of using organisations like the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Trojan horse, not for…

Legendary reggae singer Bob Marley would have been 79 years old today! We celebrate his iconic and revolutionary songs that provoked us to think deeply about…

Music icon Bob Marley was born today in 1945. A champion of Black pride and a symbol of unity, he used reggae as a voice for…

Pan-Africanist musical icon Bob Marley was born on this day, 6 February, in 1945 on a farm in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Sources say he was…

Our revolutionary forefathers, such as Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72), featured in this week’s Wednesday’s Wisdom, knew that the freedom of the Congo is integral to…

What is wrong with the DRC? In this clip (from the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in 2021), US economist Jeffery Sachs breaks it down, challenging Western…

This week’s proverb – from Ethiopia – reflects both the magical transformative power of falling in love and its dangers. It’s an insight that also applies…

Nigerian singer Tems has cancelled her upcoming concert in Kigali, Rwanda, which was scheduled for 22 March at the BK Arena. She says she made this…

Global attention has locked on the rapidly escalating situation in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim they…