Browsing: West Africa

Gambian-born British citizen Momodou Taal, a 30-year-old PhD student at Cornell University, is facing the threat of deportation from the US. His crime? Pro-Palestine activism. According…

The West African country of Guinea gained independence on this day, 2 October 1958, after 65 years of French rule. When French President Charles de Gaulle…

Members of West Africa’s anti-imperialist bloc – the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – have made multiple headlines this year by taking back control of their…

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube recently suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania…

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the president of Senegal, boldly defended Palestine at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. On 25 September,…

On 21 September 1909, Kwame Nkrumah, one of pan-Africanism’s founding fathers, was born in Nkroful, Gold Coast – now Ghana.   Nkrumah served as Ghana’s first…

A little over a year ago, Gabon’s ousted president, Ali Bongo, asked the world to ‘make noise,’ a plea that only memeified him instead (as seen…

Mali on Tuesday woke up to a terror attack claimed by al-Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM). The group targeted the airport and a…

This skit from award-winning British-Nigerian MC, actor and brand influencer Kenny (@happinessisfr33 on TikTok) brilliantly tackles the absurdity of racist assumptions about Nigerians and Africans, particularly…

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States – also known by its (French) acronym AES. This began as a…