Three reasons why we are addicted to smartphones
BY JACO J. HAMMAN Two years ago, Apple launched its iPhone 8 and iPhone X, which came with sleek, new features. Apple also hopes to start a new community around the … Read More
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China reacts to Zimbabwe understating aid figure
BY ALAN GREEN During the presentation last week of the 2020 budget, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, stated Chinese aid to his country through September to be US$3.6 million, a … Read More
“The Advocacy,” a fictional story set in Ghana, by Melissa Fischer
Drawing from her own experience as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer in this book weaves a rich tale set in 1992 in Obuasi, a mining boomtown. … Read More
The African football TV blackout could last for a while
BY CHUKA ONWUMECHILI The governing body for soccer in Africa, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has cancelled its media and marketing rights agreement with French company, Lagardère Sports and Entertainment. The impact has been … Read More
Why the UN’s financial crisis will hurt Africans more than anyone else
BY GARY WILSON The United Nations might run out of cash to meet its commitments by November. The organisation is facing a US$1.7 billion shortfall because a third of its member states … Read More
Gambia Brings Genocide Case Against Myanmar
(The Hague, November 11, 2019) – The Gambia’s case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the Genocide Convention, filed on November 11, 2019, will bring the first judicial scrutiny of … Read More
African countries can’t industrialise? Yes, they can
BY WIM NAUDE Narratives are essential. Humans are, after all, “helpless story junkies”. Business and economic success depend much more than is commonly acknowledged on getting the narrative right. And if … Read More
Amr Muneer Dahab: The impressive journey of an engineer who juggles professional career and creative writing
BY USMAN MAMA Regardless of the artistic form, artistic talents are usually born in the artist at an early age. Amr Muneer Dahab, a Sudanese-born essayist, literary critic and poet, … Read More
Sudanese poet and essayist Amr Muneer Dahab’s cry against the dominance of the novel as a writing genre
BY LOU SIFA In a series of forty-five short essays that constitute his latest book with the English translation titled “Damn the Novel: When a Privileged Genre Prevails Over All … Read More
Toby Green wins the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
‘A Fistful Of Shells: West Africa From The Rise Of The Slave Trade To The Age Of Revolution’, by Toby Green, has been awarded the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for … Read More