Government support for farmers, higher rainfall and grain imports have helped sub-Saharan Africa stave off food insecurity, but the region isn’t out of the woods yet.
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The contributions that women in West Africa’s fisheries make to the sector are widely un(der)paid, undervalued and largely invisible.
It took black folk unimaginable resources of creativity, humanity, humour and generosity to detoxify the N-word for their own collective sanity.
Digital media shutdowns in Africa will lead to higher economic costs and greater public outrage.
Burkina Faso is still in the throes of chaos decades after the assasination of the charismatic president
Drug abuse among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria, is rising.
Far too often it is still an education for some and not for everybody.
Déby’s legacy is one of violent beginnings and fake democratic shows
For decades Somalia has been in a near-constant state of food insecurity. This is due to a combination of stagnant crop production, a rapidly increasing population and political unrest.
Malawi’s revamped subsidy regime is designed to reach many more farmers. But a granular look shows that women aren’t reaping the benefits.
The importance of raw cocoa beans to Ghana’s foreign exchange earnings is derailing the development of a viable chocolate industry
Chadian president Idriss Deby’s death has serious implications for stability in the troubled Lake Chad Basin and the broader Sahel region of West Africa.
The Igbos, like most other indigenous groups, believe in maintaining a legacy of not just their language, but other values, including trans-generational business legacies.
Colonial powers framed secessionism as a threat to state-building and not as an expression of self-determination
To build a political culture that supports democracy in South Africa, civic education needs to move beyond voter education.
The growing defence of South Africa’s beleaguered constitutional democracy is bolstered by African thinker Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book.
The political and security order which numerous foreign actors have been investing in has produced marginal benefits for the population.
The judicial process in South Africa is hugely contested. This places an exaggerated burden on the courts to act with maximum independence and impartiality.
It’s common to find medical doctors providing supportive health services and in the process getting distracted from their main clinical job concerns.
By securitising refugees, in this case accusing them of instigating terror, the Kenyan government is compromising their social, economic and political rights as set out in international law.
South Africa frequently invokes its celebrated constitution that is based on human rights, but has often failed to live up to its ideals.
There may be significant limitations to the political reform that can be realised by new president Samia Suluhu Hassan.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
As the internet continues to alter traditional journalism practices, Nigerian universities must adapt to the times.
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.