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Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia Make Big Progress In Reducing Hunger, But In Africa Full Stomachs Still Belong To The Richer
Stunting rates range between 10% in prosperous areas of southern Nigeria to over 50% in parts of the north.
For Africa’s People, Culture And Heritage Run Much Deeper: They Are A Form Of Liberation
Africans the world over have employed language, belief, ritual, clothes, hairstyles, stories and food to resist and transform colonisers’ religions and cultural practices.
South Africa At War With Itself: It’s Becoming More Violent, And Is One Of The 10 Most Murderous Countries In The World
Violence affects all South Africans, with the greatest impact on black and poor people. Young black men have the highest chance of being murdered. Violence against children and women is at the root of this …
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For Africa’s People, Culture And Heritage Run Much Deeper: They Are A Form Of Liberation
Africans the world over have employed language, belief, ritual, clothes, hairstyles, stories and food to resist and transform colonisers’ religions and cultural practices.
‘I Will Not Be Just Average’: How Football Took Aloh Francis From Uganda’s Warzone To Vietnam And Back
More than 50 years ago, six footballers from northern travelled to England. Famously playing barefoot, they defeated the Great British Olympic team 2-1. One of them, Okot p’Bitek, remained to study, going on to become a renowned East African poet.
Africa Must Industrialise If It Wants To Become Truly Rich – Everything Else Is Just Spitting In The Ocean
Manufacturing in Africa is six times more productive than agriculture. The growth in services on the continent has contributed to no or slow growth in overall per capita income.
Weber Said There Is A Link Between Big Love Of God And Prosperity: Why Then Is Nigeria So Religious, Yet So Poor?
“If prayers were enough”, said American preacher TD Jakes, “Nigeria would be one of the richest countries in the world”.
Meet Nigeria’s ‘Baba IDP’, The Local Hero Making Sure Boko Haram Victims Aren’t Left To Die
He has written dozens of letters marked “SOS” and seeking financial assistance. When they go unanswered, an already-poor Halilu often takes out personal loans to make sure feed patients get fed.
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Facts, Not Magufuli-style Fantasy – Africa Has A Population Problem, But It Can Be Turned Into Gold
Because of its extraordinarily young population, Africa will benefit from favourable demographics, but perhaps less than most Africans assume.
‘I Will Not Be Just Average’: How Football Took Aloh Francis From Uganda’s Warzone To Vietnam And Back
More than 50 years ago, six footballers from northern travelled to England. Famously playing barefoot, they defeated the Great British Olympic team 2-1. One of them, Okot p’Bitek, remained to study, going on to become …
Meet Nigeria’s ‘Baba IDP’, The Local Hero Making Sure Boko Haram Victims Aren’t Left To Die
He has written dozens of letters marked “SOS” and seeking financial assistance. When they go unanswered, an already-poor Halilu often takes out personal loans to make sure feed patients get fed.
MYTH AND REALITY
Why The World Bank’s Optimism – That Only About 10% Of World’s Population Lives In Extreme Poverty – Misses The Point
The international poverty line pushed by the World Bank underestimates the extent of global poverty – and must be rejected.Angola, Rwanda, Ethiopia Make Big Progress In Reducing Hunger, But In Africa Full Stomachs Still Belong To The Richer
Stunting rates range between 10% in prosperous areas of southern Nigeria to over 50% in parts of the north.South Africa At War With Itself: It’s Becoming More Violent, And Is One Of The 10 Most Murderous Countries In The World
Violence affects all South Africans, with the greatest impact on black and poor people. Young black men have the highest chance of being murdered. Violence against children and women is at the root of this problem.
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The Last Days Of Zuma: South Africa’s Future Depends On How Ramaphosa Works His ‘Magic’
Ramaphosa has been dealt a weak hand but he has proven to be an adept strategist.
12 Countries, 1,730 Deaths: Africa’s All Too Preventable Cholera Crisis
But by far the worst-affected countries have been Somalia and South Sudan. Zambia, lies in the middle of a range of countries caught in the surge of cases, from struggling Mozambique to relatively prosperous Kenya.
Africa’s Insecurity Is Leading To A Growing Foreign Military Presence: Time To Ring The Alarm Bells?
There are just too many foreign military actors on the continent busy executing their own agendas.
DISSENTING VOICES
Why The World Bank’s Optimism – That Only About 10% Of World’s Population Lives In Extreme Poverty – Misses The Point
The international poverty line pushed by the World Bank underestimates the extent of global poverty – and must be rejected.
Iraq’s Nadia Murad And Congo’s Denis Mukwege Are Worthy Winners Of The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
There are many tragedies in war and among the worst are victims of sexual violence. Women’s bodies have become battle sites and sexual violence a weapon of war.
China Couldn’t Save Them All: Indebted Africa Returns To IMF, That Old Hated Banker
The number of sub-Saharan African countries in debt distress or facing high risk of debt distress rose from 7 in 2013 to 12 in 2016…time for bailouts.
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Africans Are Making A Rich Contribution To Australia’s Modern Soundtrack: Meet Some Of The Best
In recent years, increasing numbers of people have moved from all parts of Africa to Australia. Two years ago as many as 380,000 people indicated in a census that they were born in Africa.
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Somalis In World War 1: An Exhibition That’s Headed To Hargeisa Highlights An Overlooked Experience Of The Conflict
Somali sailors fought alongside Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar; and could have been present on the ship that carried the body of explorer David Livingstone home from Zanzibar in 1874.
A New ‘Scramble For Africans’: Once Continent’s Soaring Population Was Alarming, Today It’s A Big Opportunity. Why?
Africa is a continent about which many wildly different stories have been told. It has not always been provided the chance to tell its own stories.
‘Women And The War On Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses’ Is A Provocative Insight Into Their Life In The Jihadist Group
Boko Haram offers relatively better life for some women than north Nigerian society. Many women have looked to religion for a space of relative autonomy, generating the apparent paradox of female support for sharia law
Of Madiba’s Elite Networks, Homeboys And Girls: A Review Of ‘Mandela’s Kinsmen’
It is an effortless weaving of the politics of the apartheid state, the Transkei, liberation movements, and chiefly politics into an interconnected narrative of shifting power relations
‘A Moonless, Starless Sky’: The Lives Of Ordinary People Hidden Behind Headlines Of Violence And War Zones
Okeowo grew up in Alabama and moved to Uganda and then Nigeria as a young adult to experience her family’s homeland
