It’s only business
How private education companies ruin education in Kenya: Private education companies have sought to cash in on the development game.
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An overripe fruit will eventually fall off the tree
Artists played central roles in the protest movement that ended dictatorship in Burkina Faso.
One day we will find a language for this
New Warscapes volume explores travels and lives of migrants and refugees beyond mainstream portrayals.
On May Day, what is there to celebrate in Africa?
On International Workers’ Day, we provide a sweeping assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and potential of African trade unions.
Kwame Nkrumah and decolonial imagination
Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner aboutNkrumahism's shifting forms, and its influence on contemporarydecolonization movements.
Two places called Kongo
Francesca Harding joins Chief Boima for the fourth episode recorded in Los Angeles, California. Our guest is Angolan activist Mel Gamboa.
How business news shapes Africa’s image
A study of Reuters suggests news media is not a simple mirror to the world: News content is a crafted, cultural product.
Where the social is political
If media claims to be a tool for deepening democracy and development in Africa, why is it necessary for protesters to resort to burning and barricading?
‘Going out’ – China in African media
China is developing a media footprint in Africa, via providing digital TV services and a global news channel.
If data is the answer, what are the African questions?
Having learnt from years of extolling “technological revolution,” isn’t it time we ask the right question(s) about data in Africa?
Hack, make, sell
How to change the erroneous perception of Africa as technology backwater. Go look, for example, at what the "Maker Movement" is doing in Ghana and Nigeria.
Economic Fighters wants to revive Ghana’s anti-colonial legacy
As Ghana moves forward with a US military agreement, one group seeks to challenge the country's political direction.