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This is your time

This is your time

Media: women in the news Although there are still relatively few women occupying leadership positions in African media organisations, that is changing in countries like Nigeria and Kenya Africa has a perennially poor...

Contested, but difficult to ignore

Contested, but difficult to ignore

African history: quo vadis? Newly emerging African histories in the 1950s and 60s served as an antidote to the views of imperial and colonial historiography African history has gone through many incarnations as an...

The ‘door of the return’ to a new humanism

The ‘door of the return’ to a new humanism

Gorée Island: memorial to slavery Visitors to Senegal’s notorious Gorée island learn about a 400-year old Slavery in Africa was one of the worst violations of human rights in history, extending over an entire continent...

Twisty tales

Africa: the data The Africa Rising narrative is an example of how a number or a small set of statistics can be both informative and misleading By Alfred Mthimkhulu What does the data tell us? This can be a very...

Africa’s industrialisation

Africa’s industrialisation

Why manufacturing is key to creating jobs and building diversified economies   Can the continent make it? By Ronak Gopaldas   Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana produce 53% of the world’s cocoa. But the supermarket...