Deafening silence greets Mauritanian anti-slavery activist’s three-year prison sentence.
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5 Extraordinary Artworks at the Joburg Art Fair
The FNB Joburg Art Fair wrapped up yesterday at the Sandton Convention Centre. South Africa’s largest contemporary African art event, the ninth edition of the fair ran 90 exhibitions deep, with a particular focus on East Africa.
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Black Social Photography in South Africa: Before & After
The earliest photography in Africa can be traced back to the colonial cultural anthropologists of the mid-nineteenth century. The intention at the time was to shock the Western world with imagery of savages. More than a century later and not much has changed.
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What’s Behind Ethiopia’s Unrest?
The marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa brought Ethiopia’s tension to the world’s attention when, upon passing the Olympic finish line, he crossed his wrists above his head.
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Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Burundi
Can children forced to fight be reintegrated back into their families and communities?
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A Generation Is Protesting’ in Ethiopia, Long a U.S. Ally
Is Ethiopia about to crack? For the last decade, it has been one of Africa’s most stable nations, a solid Western ally with a fast-growing economy. But in recent months, antigovernment protests have convulsed the country, spreading into more and more areas.
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Afropreneurs: Ugandan Entrepreneur Sarah Nakintu Is Taking Her ‘African-Inspired’ Luxury Handbags Global
At 15-years-old, Sarah Nakintu would go hunting for weekend outfits among the open-air stalls of Owino, Kampala’s secondhand clothing market.
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7 Traditional African Sports that Should Be in the Olympics
The Olympic Games may go back 3,000 years to Ancient Greece, but the international sporting event that takes place every four years didn’t take on its modern form until 1896.
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Traditional Healers and Modern Medicine in Madagascar
Officials and NGOs hope to work with healers, who thrive in remote areas, in order to reach underserved communities.
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How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways
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