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As Bernadette Hall looks out onto her farm, a small smile creeps onto her face. “Not much in life is more beautiful than that, eh?” she asked. At 51 years old, Hall is a white farmer in South Africa with expansive land to hold her cattle, corn, and pigs. She said it’s what . . […]
An American destroyer shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Yemen on Saturday as it responded to a call for help from a container ship that was hit separately, the US Central Command (Centcom) said. Centcom said the US destroyers Gravely and Laboon responded to a request for assistance from the Maersk Hangzhou, a […]
NYU’s Africa House, on Thursday, Dec. 14 at 6 p.m., will present a discussion about a developing program that is connecting African-American artists in a small city on the Delaware River with artists and foundational artistic and cultural influences in Ghana. Africa House director and professor Yaw Nyarko will lead Chester, PA, artists Kenneth Hunt, […]
America’s Black Lives Matter movement has jumped continents. July 13, 2016, 1:54 PM ET • 10 min read — America’s Black Lives Matter movement has jumped continents in the wake of recent fatal police shootings of black men in the United States. From Europe to Africa, people around the world are marching in solidarity […]
One thing we can all agree on at this point is that African music is a global powerhouse. From TikTok “For You” pages, to festivals and dance floors across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the rest of the world, African music is showing up and delivering all the vibes. Recently, African music has grown […]
By Nkechi Ogbonna BBC News, Lagos 15 November 2023 Image caption, Arinola Omolayo says customers are buying much less because of the sharp rise in the price of food Arinola Omolayo owns a frozen food store in Ogba, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, where she sells mostly imported chicken, fish and turkey. […]
Numerous efforts have been made across African countries to tackle air pollution. For example, ten major African cities signed the C40 Clean Air Declaration10 to improve public health and mitigate climate change. Initiatives based on the emerging lower-capital . . .
On a crisp Thursday morning hours before Desire Marea’s performance at the Transform Festival in Leeds, England, earlier this month, the South African songwriter sat in Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve, communing with his Zulu ancestors. It’s a practice he honed through his training as a sangoma, a traditional spiritual healer, and it is essential to […]
By Jewel Kiriungi BBC News, Nairobi 36 minutes ago The future of what was billed as a game-changing trade agreement between Africa and the US is up for discussion in the South African city of Johannesburg over the next few days, with calls for it to be turned into a much longer-term pact, despite some […]
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: The U.N. warns of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Congo, Sudan’s RSF rebels take Nyala, and South Africa celebrates another Rugby World Cup win. Fierce opposition from conservative lawmakers is casting doubt on the future of PEPFAR, the U.S. government’s most successful global-health program, which was set up […]