Browsing: Europe

Nigeria’s $20 billion Dangote Refinery, Africa’s biggest refinery that opened earlier this year, is now using the national currency, the Naira, instead of the U.S. dollar…

In 1498, Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) took a third voyage from Spain to the Americas to further extract wealth. Looking for new routes to Asia from Europe,…

Anti-immigrant sentiment is rife in the US, much like Europe, where the far-right have seen a rise in popularity in places, such as Germany. Listen to…

In this clip, European traveller and vlogger Sara Della Santa (@saradella.santa – Instagram) sheds light on the misconception that Europe is superior to Africa.   The…

The racist, Islamophobic, and anti-migrant riots in England and the British-occupied North of Ireland have exposed that the rot runs right up to the top. In…

Two years ago, a serene Saturday at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, turned into a nightmare when an 18-year-old, clad in military attire and…

Italy’s Georgia Meloni was in Tunisia on Wednesday for talks on curbing cross-Mediterranean migration. It was her fourth visit in less than a year. Among the…

The 25th of March is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. During four centuries, between 10-12 million Africans…

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…

With the EU’s European Parliament elections coming up in June, the issue of immigration has taken centre-stage in a number of countries – including France. Its…