BY USMAN MAMA As Ivorian voters await the final results of last Saturday’s regional and municipal elections, post-election tension erupted in parts of the country Monday, resulting in deaths and causing many to fear...
BY ALAN GREEN In West Africa, the high cost of roaming has long been a disincentive for travelers in the region to place calls while away from home. But, on 31 March 2017, several...
BY WINSTON MORGAN Many in the scientific world are celebrating the fact that two women received this year’s Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Donna Strickland and Frances Arnold are only the 20th and 21st...
BY JIBRIL TURE The stage is set for new regional and local elections this Saturday in Cote d’Ivoire. While officials hope for a violence-free voting like the last few the country has known,...
Recognition never comes easy, and is often the result of collaborative work. Thanks to the much-appreciated support of its subscribers, advertisers and visitors to its website, The African Magazine has just been listed by...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU The rushed confirmation barely an hour ago this Saturday of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, which was in doubt about a week ago, came as a shock to some,...
BY GEORGE OGALA The government of Benin has cancelled a recent decree that imposed a tax on users of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp. Known as “over-the-top” platforms, they can deliver media content directly...
BY STEPHANIE JONES Special U.N. envoy China has bad press among the civil society across Africa that accuses the natural-resource-hungry Asian giant of engaging in sheer exploitation. To the contrary, African leaders, from Abidjan...
BY STEPHANIE JONES U.N. special envoy World leaders including Britain’s Theresa May, Canada’s Justin Trudeau, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday used the ongoing annual session of...
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU To say that Africa boasts top-notch economists who, for decades, have made valuable contributions to the world economy—including their own—in the context of international organizations, is to state the obvious. The...
