Articles tagged with: Society
KOVIN Naidoo is a busy man. He has just got back from the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Tanzania, where he has helped establish eight eye clinics to date, and where he was …
A half-century after much of Africa threw offf its colonial bonds, the continent swells with millions of youth. How leaders channel that potential will determine its future.
Like most Africans nowadays, I was not …
Focus Features announced a Call for Applications for its Africa First short film program. Applications will be open starting May 17th, 2010. The postmark deadline for applications is August 3rd, 2010.
The Africa First …
Blogger/stylist/former model Rosemary Kokuhilwa writes: “I think it’s about time we have Vogue magazine in Africa.” She’s referring to images by Paris-based Cameroonian photographer Mario Epanya, which illustrate what Vogue Africa could …
Two-thirds of its population lives on less than a dollar a day, and yet Nigeria has the world’s second-largest film industry. It’s called Nollywood, and it provides Africa, and beyond, with a …
Senegal, which is celebrating 50 years of independence, has unveiled a monument to the African Renaissance amid calls for African unity. The statue is proving controversial with its multi-million-dollar price tag in a country plagued …
Senegal, often held up as an African success story,
celebrates 50 years of independence this weekend, one of many
countries on the continent to mark a half century of
post-colonial life this year.
The country is commemorating the occasion …
A former government minister tells the inside story of how trickery, corruption, political plots, and a power vacuum are tearing apart this West African giant.
What’s needed now is a clean sweep of the administration to …
Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil …
It’s a remarkable prospect, and one that has been largely overlooked by a western world accustomed to criticising, not celebrating Africa. Barring a last-minute disaster, the people of Sudan will go to the polls next …
