On the 14th edition of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art helded in Dakar, Senegalese artist Faty Ly looks back on her career and confides her sources of inspiration.  Interview by DBM Faty, how this passion for ceramics came about? Faty Ly@Fatylabs My work in ceramics began in the late...

Barely out of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while its impact on the socio-economic fabric of the continent continues to be felt, the war in Ukraine and the rise in fuel prices are plunging the continent into a new period of uncertainty. Africa will have to stand together to cope with...

The Women in Tech Global Summit is for the "Game Changers and HERoes" who are creating the future. The next edition will take place May 30th - May 31st in Paris. By the editorial staff The Women in Tech Global Summit is an event that will take place from May...

Africa is being pummeled by climate change. Just last week, hundreds of people died in KwaZulu Natal due to floods. Also, rising temperatures are scorching farms across the continent. Sub-Sahara Africa climate adaption needs are estimated at $331 billion. In addition, the rising challenges of the war in Ukraine, have...

The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of progress in poverty reduction on the continent.This is according to the Economic Report on Africa 2021(ERA2021) launched on the margins of the Economic Commission for Africa’s...

Durvasula is an experienced technology and real estate industry executive with a 25-year track record of successful leadership and value generation in the digital infrastructure sector. He is the new chief executive officer of Africa Data Centres (ADC). By the editorial staff Cassava Technologies has appointed Tesh Durvasula as new...

The Social & Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC) has begun searching for its 6th cohort of African entrepreneurs. Leaders of developing, high-impact companies on the continent have until June 26 to apply for a place on the SIBC 2022! The Social & Inclusive Business Camp has become the unmissable event for high-impact...

TooShare, " the first social learning platform created in Africa, launching, during eLearning Africa 2022 in Kigali, a graduate scholarship program of One Billion US$ funded by the IU Group and TooShare partners to all African countries to promote access to higher education in tech subjects with great employability. By...

A foreign war has exposed Africa’s chronic dependence on food imports and galvanized action to address the nexus between conflict, food insecurity and climate change... By Patrick Verkooijen, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim and Akinwumi Adesina. The victims of war are sometimes a thousand miles from the battlefield. Such is the case...

Kigali hosted eLearning Africa from May 11 to 13. Government policy makers, faculty members, digital educational content providers and others gathered to consider a new educational model for the fourth industrial revolution.  By Dounia Ben Mohamed in Kigali, Photos and editing Hervé Mbaraga With more than 1,000 delegates, 68 parallel...