Tag: africa
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In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf – scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties – filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these… more ›
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The Russian mercenary organization has turned the impoverished Central African Republic into a successful center of economic and military influence for Moscow https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-03-23/the-african-laboratory-of-the-wagner-group-diamonds-violence-and-political-alliances.html?utm_source=perplexity more ›
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Private security work can be a brutal world of short-term contracts, exploitation, and under-regulation, where the imperative of profit is expected to trump collective notions of military brotherhood. Why then… more ›
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ADF STAFF Among a handful of prisoners of war captured in Ukraine after fighting for Russia, a young Somali man stood out. He said he joined the army to give… more ›
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When Google opened its first AI lab in Ghana in 2019, Africa’s technology conversation was dominated by the emergence of startups promising to disrupt particular aspects of local economies. https://www.semafor.com/article/04/02/2025/africas-ai-ambitions-take-the-spotlight-in-rwanda more ›
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has long been the world’s main measure of economic success, rewarding activities that generate immediate financial returns. https://www.semafor.com/article/03/10/2025/how-to-value-africas-natural-wealth-in-global-finance more ›
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He’s trained in building bridges, literally, but by now he’s become used to blowing them up – it’s 1941 and everyone needs to adapt. more ›
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One of the leading figures of the LA Rebellion—the new wave of Black American independent cinema that emerged from UCLA’s film school in the 1970s and ’80s—Billy Woodberry created one… more ›
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Remittance startups have injected new competition into a market long dominated by US giants like Western Union and MoneyGram. https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2025/remittance-startups-ride-africas-migration-wave more ›