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After ending 2016 with 420 million unique mobile subscribers, Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to add more than 100 million unique...

Afrofuturism is coming to HBO, thanks in part to Game of Thrones-creator George R. R. Martin. Nigerian-American science-fiction author...

By 2050 around 2.2 billion people could be added to the global population and more than half of that growth will occur in Africa. Africa...

When I began to teach in 2012, I decided to start my course with an analysis of how money affects social order. What my students found...

Two women and a man wrangle over fruits in Nairobi Berries, each one emptying the other’s core, while a poetic voice speaks over layered...

The world’s most popular coffee bean, arabica, is under threat in the country where it was first found. According to new research, rising...

Last year, the Quartz Africa team applied for the Innovate Africa fund to take Quartz’s chart-building platform, Atlas, to newsrooms,...

In 2008, on his first visit to China and India after taking office as prime minister, Britain’s Gordon Brown announced a plan to promote...

Samuel Donkoh had just turned ten when he began to slip away. His brother Martin, two years his senior, first realized something was...

Africa is still rising—mainly thanks to East Africa. While the continent’s major economies were hit by the fall in commodity prices in...

Does it make sense for a country to locate its capital city someplace no one can find? Zambia wants to move its capital city from the...

Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line on May 31 in a ceremony to be...

At 06:00 on an autumn morning in 2016 Andre Rushin, an armed response officer for Secupro Armed Response in Mitchells Plain, responded to...

Moving around Africa is notoriously difficult for travelers with African passports. Only 10 out of 55 countries on the continent waive...

Like most comedians in Japan, 30-year-old Ike Nwala is an all-arounder. He does live shows with two different comedy troupes, appears on...

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 TO FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2017 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Background The 2017 Africa Regional Forum on sustainable...

When Mamey Kamara attended the opening of Ivorian chocolatier Instant Chocolat, she instantly fell in love. Born and raised in Abidjan,...

For eons, piracy in African book publishing has been something that booksellers lived with and factored in as part of the climate of...

With the expectation that one in four young African students—or 66 million—will be enrolled in a private school by 2021, the potential...

Durban, South Africa The influence of innovation on African countries’ developmental progress continues to be one of the most frequently...