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

5 tips for surviving in an increasingly uncertain world

BY JELENA KECMANOVIC A recent study showed that North Americans are becoming less tolerant of uncertainty. The U.S. presidential impeachment inquiry has added another layer of uncertainty to an already unstable … Read More

ExpressVPN and HP Provides Ample Protection to Laptop Users in New Partnership

  A GUEST POST BY Users of select HP products now have the privilege to enjoy digital data protection from a pre-installed VPN connection from ExpressVPN. This is after HP, … Read More

Are religious people more moral?

  BY DIMITRIS XYGALATAS Why do people distrust atheists? A recent study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, … Read More