Tag: africa

• How the UK’s “fund of funds” influences investment financing in Africa with a long view

  June 21, 2020

  Major international banks and private equity (PE) houses have been reducing their exposure to Africa in the past few years, but, thankfully for the continent’s startups, not everyone is retreating.… more ›

• The intertwined histories of the African American freedom struggle and Ethiopia’s war against fascism

  June 14, 2020

  The uproar from the horrific murder of 46-year old African American George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25 continues to reverberate globally, as African Americans… more ›

• Is France breaking with its colonial past in Africa?

  May 24, 2020

  It is the end of an era in West Africa as France moves to scrap the currency used by its former colonies. Eight West African countries will soon be using… more ›

• ‘You are still a soldier to me’: The forgotten African hero of Britain’s colonial army

  May 17, 2020

  In a crowded, Zambian slum on VE Day, a family gathered to bury one of the last veterans of Britain’s colonial army. Jaston Khosa of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment was… more ›

• Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus

  May 17, 2020

  As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is of governments using their armies and militarized police to beat, threaten, and shoot… more ›

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• Facebook uncovers Russian-led troll network based in west Africa

  March 13, 2020

  A newly discovered Russian-led network of professional trolls was being outsourced to Ghanaian and Nigerian operatives, according to Facebook and Twitter, who removed the network’s accounts on Thursday. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/13/facebook-uncovers-russian-led-troll-network-based-in-west-africa?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Add_to_Pocket more ›

• Revealed: the great European refugee scandal

  March 12, 2020

  Evidence obtained by the Guardian exposes a coordinated and unlawful EU assault on the rights of desperate people trying to cross the Mediterranean by , Apostolis Fotiadis and Zach Campbell… more ›

• A Kenyan Painter Casts a Critical Eye on China’s Role in Africa

  February 22, 2020

  Michael Soi’s “China Loves Africa” collection examines the symbiotic and often corrupt relationship between Beijing and African elites. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/africa/michael-soi-kenya-china.html more ›