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Lifestyle9 years ago
WCW Tabitha Chawinga, Scoring her way to the top of the world
Our WCW this week is Tabitha Chawinga, Malawi’s football star currently playing for Swedish side, Kvarnsveden. She emerged the best forward at the Swedish Football award...
Africans rising9 years ago
Nigerian women’s team is the first ever African Bobsled team to qualify for Winter Olympics
For the first time ever, Nigeria will be represented in the Winter Olympics after the women’s bobsled team qualified for the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang,...
Arts, Culture and Sport9 years ago
Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup: Five nations carry Africa’s hopes and dreams
The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, and Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia will carry Africa's hopes and...
Africans rising9 years ago
Nigeria’s Kamaru Usman knocks out Sergio Moraes and declares: “I am a problem in the division!”
African athletes are flexing in boxing with fighters such as Dereck Chisora, Samuel Peter and recently Anthony Joshua making a mark in the sport. The Ultimate...
Lifestyle9 years ago
Guinean midfielder Naby Keita joins Liverpool FC as the most expensive African footballer
English Premier League club Liverpool FC last week confirmed the acquisition of RB Leipzig’s Guinean midfielder Naby Keita for a club record deal. The deal which...

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WCW Tabitha Chawinga, Scoring her way to the top of the world

Nigerian women’s team is the first ever African Bobsled team to qualify for Winter Olympics

Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup: Five nations carry Africa’s hopes and dreams

Nigeria’s Kamaru Usman knocks out Sergio Moraes and declares: “I am a problem in the division!”

Guinean midfielder Naby Keita joins Liverpool FC as the most expensive African footballer

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African rugby boss Herbert Mensah lauds Boks’ global dominance

Reform or retreat? The Catholic church in Africa after Pope Francis

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Samia Suluhu’s discomfiting revelation: Gender alone does not inoculate one from dictatorship and demagoguery

The Mask is Off. Why Kenyan #GenZs are Rising Against a Regime Stuck in its Colonial Past

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The failure of centralized power across the planet is upon us

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Raila Amolo Odinga

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Kenya’s Constitution under siege: A decade of efforts to centralise power

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South Africa forgetting Biko: Retaining an inferiority complex

IMF’s economic terrorism: Structural adjustment, “Capitalogenic” disease, and the fight to hold the World Bank accountable

Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound

Ceasefire but not a grand bargain between the United States and Iran

Did Kenya’s Gen Z protests achieve anything? An economist weighs up what’s changed and what’s stayed the same

The Big Thursday Briefing: The constitution of code: A Geosociotechnopolitical perspective on digital constitutionalism in Africa

The 1953 original sin: How a coup in Iran engineered 70 years of global resource wars

Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A new mineral rush spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and other major powers

Kenya’s protests against the Ebola Quarantine Facility are as much about the economy as they are about sovereignty

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Abdullah Ibrahim: South Africa’s master pianist who was still touring the world at 90

The FIFA 2026 World Cup and its complicity in a changing global World Order

The architecture of extraction: From colonial famine to the mortgaged Kenyan pay slip

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