The evolutionary loss of body hair made it easier for human ancestors to hunt in the heat.
Marco Anson
Africa’s large mammal heritage has formed a deep cultural legacy for all of humankind.
Ghana is trying to put together a debt restructuring programme to satisfy major stakeholders.
Wikimedia Commons
Ghana’s finance ministry is struggling to build consensus on the country’s debt burden.
Young people play football on a street in Goma, eastern DRC.
Guerchom Ndebo/AFP via Getty Images
Football provides a way for unpopular elites to build political capital – but also creates space for citizens to voice dissent.
When directors sit on too many company boards they might become what’s referred to as ‘overboarded’.
Getty images
Directors should avoid accepting more directorships than they can handle.
Kwame Nkrumah’s political legacy is struggling to stay afloat in Ghana.
Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
The recurrent bickering and fragmentation within the Nkrumahist parties raises doubt as to whether they can rise to the call by Ghanaian electorate.
The African National Congress’s fully black leadership belies its commitment to non-racialism.
Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Mzala’s distinctive intellectual contribution combined a sophisticated grasp of revolutionary theory with the reality of ethnic nationalism.
Activists press for climate change financing during COP27. Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via
Getty Images
Kenya, Malawi, Gabon, Nigeria and Togo are already interested in scaling carbon credit production.
Ethembeni informal settlement near Cape Town covered in sewage water after a pipe burst in August 2020.
Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images
South Africa’s energy crisis has far-reaching negative effects on water supply. Energy and water are intertwined.
Kenya last executed a prisoner in 1987 but continues to hand down the death sentence.
Getty Images
Research finds that the threat of being sentenced to death has no bearing on how people contemplate violent crime.
Shutterstock
The current energy transition could herald a new copper world. But will it be a long-anticipated resource blessing or yet another global scramble for the precious metal?
The use of wood to fuel cooking fires is ubiquitous in Ghana.
Getty images
Ghana needs improved supply systems to expand the use of clean fuels.
An official of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) counts votes cast in an election.
Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
Ethnicity, religion, money, history and insecurity are among the forces that will be at play.
Tigers in South Africa are being intensively farmed for commercial trade.
Hristo Vladev/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Tigers exist in South Africa because they’re being intensively farmed for commercial trade in live individuals or their body parts.
Solar powered water heaters on rooftops above shacks in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Installing enough solar panels and battery storage to see a household through a week without sunshine isn’t yet financially possible.
Men wait for at a railway station for transport to a mine.
Ernest Cole/© Ernest Cole Family Trust/Courtesy Wits Historical Papers/Photography Legacy Project
Cole was a master of portraying the violence of apartheid through scenes of everyday life.
One day this fresh elephant dung could be a coprolite helping scientists understand the past.
Silarock/Shutterstock
Studying fossil dung offers another avenue for scientists trying to recreate ancient landscapes.
Workers sew garments at a textile factory in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images
South Africa’s world-leading wage inequality has as much to do with what bosses are doing as it does with how educated or experienced workers are.
Urgent action is needed to protect Madagascar’s forests.
Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images
Climate change is a huge threat to Madagascar’s four forest types – urgent action is needed to ensure they don’t disappear completely.
Guo Jun/Xinhua via Getty Images
Nigeria’s Lekki Deep Sea Port is also its largest, and will boost the country’s ability to process imports and exports.
A border crossing between Uganda and Kenya at Malaba. The two countries have made strides in improving mobility between them.
Photo by Brian Ongoro/AFP via Getty Images
It’s likely that free movement will advance first among groupings within regional communities.
Teens look to their parents for love and support in hard times.
Shutterstock
The way a parent or caregiver responds in this situation is extremely important.
Jollof rice (called Ceebu jën in Senegal according to the Wolof spelling).
Photo by Fatima Fall Niang
Nigerians and Ghanaians have all claimed authorship of Jollof rice. But a new book points out that the “Senegality” of this dish is established by the reference to “Jolof”.
Abdurashid Abdulle Abikar/AFP via GettyImages
It’s likely that the terrorist group will be defeated one day. But there are no signs that the political elite is capable of changing.
Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
Kenya faces the challenge of delivering quality education without discriminating against learners based on social or economic background.
A drone image of part of the Angolan Highlands.
Mauro Lourenco
The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.