No Country Is an Island -19 Vaccines Is the Only Way to Go
As countries across the world begin to purchase and roll out COVID-19 vaccines, a key question is how far the vaccine is from reaching Africa...
Category : Africa
Congo-Kinshasa: Why Rangers in the Congo’s Virunga National Park Are Under Attack
Armed men have killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Virunga national park....
Former NADECO Chieftain Alleges Plots To Take Over His Ikoyi Property
Former chieftain of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, Ralph Obioha, has alleged that there are plots by his former employee and lawyer to take...
How Did One Chinese Phone Maker Dominate The African Market?
A Chinese phone maker based in Shenzhen have taken a dominant market position in the African mobile phone market. Transsion Holdings, founded in 2006 and...
Covid-19 is robbing young African soccer talent of their big-time European ambitions
Emmanuel Izochukwu, a 22-year-old forward, had planned in June to take his soccer career to the next level by making a move from Nigeria to...
The hidden story of African-Irish children
In the middle of the last century, thousands of students from African countries were studying at Irish universities. Some had children outside marriage, who were...
Africa: Court Declares Colonial-Era ‘Vagrancy’ Laws As ‘Vague, Arbitrary’
Today, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities such as loitering, public indecency, and begging....
Malawi: Malawi Receives South Africa’s Extradition Request For Bushiri, Wife
Cape Town — The Malawian government has confirmed receiving an extradition request from South Africa, three weeks after fugitive couple Shepherd Bushiri and his wife...
Beyond grants and impact investments, there’s a growing interest in Africa.
How much impact investment comes into Africa every year? And do you think it’s enough? My bet is that even if you don’t know the...
Iyin Aboyeji: What’s next for African tech?
Can tech solve Africa’s fundamental problems? In this edition of Building The Future, founding partner of Future Africa and co-founder of Andela & Flutterwave, Iyinoluwa...