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Africa’s urban challenges are increasingly well known and documented. But the amount of data produced on urban Africa still pales in comparison to other parts of the world.
These new finds indicate that Diictodon was burrowing and giving some parental care to its young. This was long thought to be unique to mammals.
Building business skills to improve livelihoods is increasingly recognised as bringing value to the fight against poverty. But it can also set up identity conflict and community-level tension.
An attempt to prevent fraud in Ghana’s burgeoning mobile money sector could be a setback for access to financial services.
The “Chinese Model” for development could be a blueprint for the modernisation and transformation of African economies.
Apart from tackling terrorism, banditry and kidnappings, Nigeria’s new Inspector General of Police must embrace community policing.
Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and their neighbours could deploy large-scale solar and wind farms, connected by a regionally integrated power grid.
Ramaphosa’s rise to power in 2018 offered South Africans hope that he would end corruption. Indeed, he made promises to do so. But he has met with resistance, especially within the ANC.
To overcome food insecurity, especially in a pandemic, Nigeria’s emergency preparedness requires a total overhaul of it’s agri-food supply chain.
In several other parts of the world, people used the bones of animals that were important within their respective cultures to make tools.
Her 1975 novel demonstrated a far more radical feminism than was common in Africa and the Arab world – a precursor of the #MenAreTrash anger of today.
The devolution of small-scale mining decisions to municipal and district assemblies working in collaboration with traditional authorities is key to saving the industry in Ghana.
The fight for vaccine equity needs to stop looking to multilateral institutions for permission and instead focus on the policy tools that are already available to states.
Institutional problems make it difficult to satisfy livestock and crop farmers’ interests, already in contest over agricultural resources.
Relying solely on job placement as an indicator of successful intervention misses out on outcomes that are equally important, or more so, amid high structural unemployment.
Media houses with digital and traditional newsrooms need to create collaborative environments to address the tensions that often emerge between the old and the new.
To stem the rise in diabetes, new and innovative methods of risk assessment must be implemented, specific to populations on the continent.
Nigeria and China should work more on the relationship between their citizens so that the two countries can continue to have good bilateral relations.
Traditional leaders do not adequately represent the interests of rural communities in dealing with mining companies.
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Women breadwinners believed that their role was viewed as threatening to men, who are traditionally breadwinners.
The mass privatisation of mining and the turn to foreign direct investment has created conflict with small-scale miners.
Fela’s nomination and possible induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will come at a cost.
The federal government needs to address the relationship between climate-related realities and the country’s national security.
Authority culpability as a facet of road accidents has been overlooked in Ghana.