Browsing: Africa

African countries may have gained their independence but those countries’ languages haven’t. Some schools still ban them, requiring students to use the language of former colonial…

Western media paints US imperialism as an altruistic initiative to bring democracy to savages too simple-minded to know who their enemies are. But, sometimes, the truth…

Just as any two living creatures have a common ancestor in the tree of life, so any two languages have a common tongue from which they…

30-billion tonnes of Carbon dioxide are trapped under one giant area of African peatlands – and could spell environmental disaster if nothing’s done. The Congo Basin…

How Western colonisers practised barbarism in the name of science. The Tragic story of Ota Benga.

Pan-African activist Arikana Chihombori-Quao tells a funny story here about getting to her hotel room in Ghana, only to find a portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth…

The Brits like to say that a leopard can’t change its spots – suggesting that a flawed character can’t be changed. But this African proverb about…

This week’s Facts of the Week centre on our missing artefacts – missing, that is, from Africa. We know where many of them are: in European…

When African Stream was kicked off all major social platforms apart from X, formerly known as Twitter, following baseless accusations from the US State Department, many…

We’ve all heard them talk, charming words, excellent cadence, captivating delivery….. but do they have anything to offer us beyond fiery speeches? Well it turns out…