The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) hosted its 53rd Plenary Session on the theme: The COVID-19 Pandemic & Public Finance in Africa – Challenges and Opportunities. The virtual event, held on 7 December 2020, attracted over 300 researchers, economists, academics, policymakers, and non-state actors; convening to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on public finance in Africa. During the event, the […]
Fed up with non-Africans telling African stories, three friends from Nigeria and Uganda created Kugali Media in 2017 to tell stories out of the continent. Through the entertainment company, the friends — Tolu Olowofoyeku, Hamid Ibrahim, and Fikayo Adeola — created a comic book collection called “Iwaju”, set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria’s capital city. […]
A tree trunk, some quick thinking and crawling several miles through the forest helped a Nigerian schoolboy escape from kidnappers. The 17-year-old student (whose name we can’t reveal) was abducted alongside more than 500 others from Government Science Secondary School in the north-western Katsina state on Friday night. “We were being pushed and beaten, we […]
The Afreximbank will launch its annual flagship report-the 2020 African Trade Report on 15th December The 2020 Report focuses on Informal Cross-Border Trade ahead of the implementation of the AfCFTA The report also looks at important trends-macroeconomic and trade and, reflects on the impact of COVID-19 on African trade The Report Launch will feature an […]
There is a bar in the Senegalese capital of Dakar that you can only find if someone has pointed the way. It sits on a thin strip of beach, with a wide view of the Atlantic Ocean and the young surfers who chase waves as the sun sets in the distance. It sits below the […]
For its 30th anniversary, the New York African Film Festival is spotlighting the films of Nigeria and Sudan. Entitled ‘Streaming Rivers: The Past Into the Present,’ the online event will screen 6 feature films and 8 shorts, the latter of which are recognized as a forum boundary pushing content. The festival will transport audiences to […]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — On a bright day in mid-November, about a dozen police officers with machine guns barged into the home of Lisanewerk Desta, a theologian who is the head of the library and museum department at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and got to work. The men, who had no warrant, Mr. Desta said, […]
Many people who yearn for a private escape with their loved one will find Anantara Medjumbe Island Resort new Star Bed Experience rather fascinating. The Mozambique resort was created for guests who want some alone time with their other half. The remote island getaway blends a Robinson Crusoe-style adventure with the authentic luxuries Anantara is […]
A U.N. refugee agency report issued earlier this month finds thousands of children in Mali are being exploited and abused by criminal or armed groups, tribal chiefs and state authorities for profit and personal gain. The report presents a horrific picture of unscrupulous people feeding off the misery of the most vulnerable members of society […]
It’s World Savings Day on 31 October, a timely reminder about why small businesses and small business owners in West Africa should be striving to build up their cash reserves. With the Nigerian central bank’s benchmark lending rate at 14%, it makes sense at this stage of the economic cycle to save up rather than […]