Browsing: West Africa

Sometimes it’s wiser to leave things as they are and not find fault: else you might just end up creating worse problems!

At least 150 people have died in Jigawa State, Nigeria, after a fuel tanker overturned and exploded. One reason for the high death toll is that…

On Tuesday, it was the 37th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s assassination. That may seem a long tome ago, but the people of Burkina Faso still come…

Ghanaian artist Kwame Oteanankanduro says he woke up to a nightmare when he found out YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Threads had banned African Stream. After he…

On 5th October, 2024, President Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso made an important statement in a radio address: the country will be revoking mining licences and…

On Monday, French police arrested Beninese pan-Africanist Kemi Seba and his colleague Hery Djehuty in two separate incidents. Reports suggest it’s connected to Seba’s entry into…

Few figures have left such an impression on the African music scene as Nigeria’s Fela Kuti. As we celebrate what would have been his 86th birthday,…

On this day in 1987, visionary pan-African icon and leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara was assassinated by his longtime friend and, at the time, minister…

Burkina Faso’s pan-African president and hero, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated on this day in 1987 in the capital, Ouagadougou.  A hit squad also killed 12 of…

Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì – the legendary musician, activist and critic of Nigeria’s military junta – was born on 15 October 1938. Nearly three decades after his…