Zambia’s currency is enjoying its best run in nearly two years
The kwacha of Zambia has soared to the highest point in almost two years on the hope that the copper industry will recover and investor confidence in the second-largest... Read more.
Rwanda exporting homegrown digital platforms to make global impact
Rwanda is turning its domestic digital reforms into an exportable model for governments abroad. Its tech agencies and private firms increasingly deliver software... Read more.
The LUTSAGA project archives 60 endangered genres, like the sounds of MijikendaÂ
The thatch throws a soft, familiar shadow. A woven fence creaks in the salty wind. Inside a cleared yard in Kilifi, twelve drummers set skins into place like clockmakers... Read more.
Zambian women architects of own spaces at male-dominated decision tables
Mwangala Lethbridge often pictures Zambia’s leadership spaces, cabinet rooms, boardrooms, and corporate meetings, as a table of ten seats, nine taken by men. The... Read more.
South Africa’s energy transition goes big
Pretoria’s R2.23 trillion (approx. $128 billion USD) Integrated Resource Plan 2025 sets out to halve the country’s reliance on coal and add more than 100 gigawatts... Read more.
Continental food festivals are putting flavour at the heart of tourism and trade
Visitors at the AfroGastro Festival swallowed morsels of fufu and watched chefs from 12 African and diaspora nations plate modern twists of jollof rice in Accra... Read more.
