play_arrow

keyboard_arrow_right

Listeners:

Top listeners:

skip_previous skip_next
00:00 00:00
playlist_play chevron_left
volume_up
Go to album
  • play_arrow

    Josia Shigwedha

  • play_arrow

    Josia Shigwedha

Africa

1302 Results / Page 100 of 145

insert_link

Africa

Margaret Busby: how a pioneering Ghanaian publisher put African women’s writing on the map

    By Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, University of the Witwatersrand   Published in 1992, Daughters of Africa is a groundbreaking volume of writing by women of African descent. It was followed by an expanded second edition, New Daughters of Africa, in 2019. The mind behind the books is pioneering Ghanaian-born publisher, writer and editor Margaret Busby. She became the first Black female publisher in the UK at 20 when […]

today29 April, 2024

insert_link

Africa

Kenyan doctors’ strike: the government keeps failing to hold up its end of the bargain

    By Kahura Mundia, University of Nairobi   At least 4,000 doctors are employed in Kenya’s public healthcare sector. Almost all of them went on strike on 14 March 2024, demanding the implementation of a labour agreement signed with the government in 2017. The agreement promised higher salaries, better working conditions and the recruitment of doctors. The Kenyan government said it didn’t have the money to honour the agreement, […]

today29 April, 2024

insert_link

Africa

Sierra Leone’s Energy Minister Resigns Amid Electricity Crisis

Sierra Leone's Energy Minister, Kanja Sesay, resigned on Friday in the midst of a prolonged electricity crisis. His resignation came on the same day the government disclosed partial payment of outstanding debts owed to energy providers. Sesay took full responsibility for the crisis in his resignation letter. Following Sesay's resignation, President Julius Maada Bio's office announced that the energy ministry would now be directly supervised by the president.

today29 April, 2024

insert_link

Africa

Nigeria is pioneering a new vaccine to fight meningitis – why this matters

  By Idris Mohammed, Gombe State University   Nigeria recently became the first country to roll out a new vaccine (called Men5CV) recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which protects people against five strains of meningococcus bacteria. The Conversation Africa asked Idris Mohammed, a professor of infectious diseases and immunology and former board chair of Nigeria’s National Programme on Immunisation, to explain the new vaccine and its likely impact. […]

today26 April, 2024

insert_link

Africa

Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail

    By Abiodun Odusote, University of Lagos   The legal implication of physically damaging the naira, Nigeria’s currency, came into focus recently with the prosecution of at least two celebrities by the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigeria has a law that prohibits what it terms abuse, which also includes writing on the notes or crumpling them. It also covers naira coins. The law was introduced in 2007 […]

today26 April, 2024

insert_link

Africa

R21 anti-malaria vaccine is a game changer: scientist who helped design it reflects on 30 years of research, and what it promises

    By Adrian Hill, University of Oxford   Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the RTS,S and the R21 vaccines. Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford and chief investigator for the R21 vaccine, tells Nadine Dreyer why he thinks this is a great era for malaria control. What makes malaria […]

today25 April, 2024

insert_link

Africa

Rwanda’s post-genocide model prioritises security over freedom and equality – a risk to future stability

    By Omar Shahabudin McDoom, London School of Economics and Political Science   Rwanda, a small and landlocked central African country, has made remarkable socio-economic progress since the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 500,000 people died. But the country, as well as the rest of the world, remains divided over the achievements made and the direction taken over the past 30 years. Supporters of Rwanda’s trajectory believe in […]

today25 April, 2024