Long reads on African history, governance, economics, culture, and what comes next.
Diaspora remittances to sub-Saharan Africa reached approximately USD 54 billion in 2024 according to World Bank Migration and Development Brief data, exceeding both foreign direct investment and official …
The CFA franc — the common currency of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU, eight states) and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC, six …
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), headquartered in Cairo and founded in 1993 under AfDB and OAU sponsorship, is the African institution that most consistently delivers operational outcomes against …
The standard development economics framing of African agriculture is a productivity story: yields per hectare are below world averages, therefore the policy task is to raise yields. Hybrid …
*Kalindula* — the Bemba-language guitar-and-banjo dance music that became Zambia's first distinctively post-independence popular genre — emerged from the late 1970s Lusaka recording scene and dominated Zambian airwaves …
The Alliance of Sahel States (AES — Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger), formed under the Liptako-Gourma framework in September 2023 and consolidated by the January 2024 withdrawal from ECOWAS, …
The Congo River drops 96 metres over a 14-kilometre stretch at Inga, west of Kinshasa. The hydropower potential at that stretch is, by World Bank reckoning, 44,000 MW …
Across roughly 5,000 kilometres of Sahelian rangeland — from the Ferlo in northern Senegal to the Butana east of Khartoum — Fulani pastoralist households move cattle and small …
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory's mid-frequency telescope (SKA-Mid) is under construction in the Karoo semi-desert of South Africa's Northern Cape, with the low-frequency component (SKA-Low) being built …
In November 2018, John Magufuli's government deployed the Tanzanian People's Defence Force to confiscate roughly 220,000 tonnes of unsold cashew nuts from buyers who had refused to purchase …
The community health worker (CHW) is one of the most evidence-supported interventions in twenty-first-century public health. The Bangladesh BRAC model, scaled from the late 1970s onward, demonstrated that …
If you arrive at Kigali International Airport and your taxi drops you in the Nyarugenge district, you will notice: the streets are clean, the traffic is orderly, the …