Browsing: africa

Let’s make banana beer. Africans were using locally available crops to brew beer long before Europeans introduced their own techniques, but East Africans stand out in…

The Pentagon recently failed its 7th audit in a row, failing to account for $824 billion in defence expenditure. Could one reason be its covert operations…

In the British game show, ‘Golden Balls,’ which aired between 2007 and 2009, contestants competed to win as much money as possible by choosing from balls…

The oft-quoted Jomo Kenyatta saying goes something like, ‘When the white man came, he had the Bible. We had the land. He told us to shut…

We often get trolls in the comments asking us why we post about Palestine and why Africans should care? The answer is simple: as Africans, we…

Many assume Christianity in Africa was a purely Western missionary import. However, as Ethiopian Christian Orthodox history shows, the religion was on the continent as early…

It’s time for Africans to start asking uncomfortable questions, according to renowned Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga. And that includes scrutinising what warped interpretation European Christianity has brought…

Libya gained independence from Italy on December 24, 1951, becoming the first country to do so through the United Nations. Yet many analysts argue that it…

There’s a new scramble for Africa few are talking about. Countries are buying up huge swathes of the continent’s forests to off-set their own carbon footprints.…

The International Monetary Fund has for a long time been dictating economic and development policy to African countries. It will grant them loans – but only…