In April 2020, Setsembele Siphumelele Hlanze decided she’d had enough. She’d been waiting for the world to “restart” after the early COVID-19 lockdowns, but that wasn’t...
As the midday sun shone relentlessly on the tarmac of the Whistling Morans race circuit on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the track...
In a life-sized compound located in the heart of the marbled hall of the Doudou Ndiaye Coumba Rose National Grand Theatre, Alioune Diagne offers a retrospective...
Africa had the second-fastest-growing tourism market globally before COVID-19. Now that borders are open and travellers are again exploring, Yasmine Fofana is determined to make sure...
Another ten African languages recently appeared in key online translation services, potentially raising their international profile, popularity, appeal, and use. Ewe, spoken in Ghana and Togo,...
It is a cold, drizzly morning and inside a spacious factory, where the humming, whirring, and clanking of machinery are hard on the ear and the...
Dr Chinonso Fidelis Egemba, 31, was in his fourth year at Nnamdi Azikiwe University when he and some of his medical student colleagues helped diagnose a...
For as long as she can remember, Lerato Mogoatlhe existed in two parallel universes. Taking in the views of the Johannesburg skyline, her mind would wander...
On a regular school day at a junior secondary school in south-eastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with...
If 70 is an age at which one can really slow down and look back on a life well-lived, someone forgot to inform Angela Chirenda Rugara....
From a very young age, Kemisola Bolarinwa has been an innovator. She still recalls the joy of her first eureka moment in high school when together...
By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, bird story agency Abuja is relatively new as cities go. A planned city, built mainly in the 1980s, it was designed to...
Kengran Liza Vernyuy fondly recollects her grandfather’s tomato farm in Ntonghi, in the Bui Division of Cameroon’s Northwestern Region. Born into a farming family, Liza Kengran...
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