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Kiswahili: how a standard version of the east African language was formed – and spread across the world

Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe. It’s been adopted as a working language at the African Union and there’s a push for it to become Africa’s lingua franca or common language. Morgan J. Robinson is a historian of east Africa with a research focus…

The Conversation

Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?

Pierre Thiam and Garrett Oliver are on a mission to introduce brewmasters to fonio, a small and mighty west African grain

The Guardian - US

Beneatha’s Place review – the future of Black America and the shadows of colonialism

Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play takes a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun on a journey to Africa

The Guardian - UK

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Deadly virus spreading across Europe 'biggest threat to public health'

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is being spread by ticks across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with scientists warning it is "highly likely" it will reach Britain

Daily Mirror

Watch thousands of lightning bolts crackle over Europe in stunning new satellite video

Stunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.

LiveScience

France sees itself as colourblind – so how do the French talk about race?

Almost a week of riots followed the fatal police shooting of a teenager with North African roots on June 27, once again exposing fractures along racial lines and between residents of the city’s suburbs (banlieues) and those who police them.

France 24

Angélique Kidjo at MIF: A life-affirming performance at the city's newest live venue

The hall provided an intimate backdrop for the iconic West African singer-songwriter

Manchester Evening News

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Africa’s linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism

Language is a uniquely human skill. That’s why studying how people learn and use language is crucial to understanding what it means to be human. Given that most people in the world – an estimated 60% – are multilingual, meaning that they know and use more than one language, a…

The Conversation

Genetically modified crops may be a solution to hunger - why there is scepticism in Africa

Hunger and undernourishment are two elements of food insecurity that have plagued Africa for years. And the menace is growing.

The Conversation

Mozambican terror group is strikingly similar to Nigeria's deadly Boko Haram

Terrorism is a global problem affecting many countries. Until 2017, however, southern Africa was largely spared from this phenomenon. The bloody conflict sparked by Ansar al-Sunna in northern Mozambique has since changed the region’s security landscape.

The Conversation

Mushroom-shaped superplume of scorching hot rock may be splitting Africa in 2

Strange, never-before-seen movements in the East Africa Rift Valley appear to be driven by super-heated rock from deep beneath Earth's surface.

LiveScience

‘Our feminist ancestor’: Ama Ata Aidoo, author, activist and African heroine

In her writing, she depicted bold African women; in her activism, she nurtured and inspired people everywhere

The Guardian - UK

India increases Africa lending in the race to counter China

NEW DELHI: Africa has become the second-largest recipient of credit from India as the country tries to catch up with China in expanding its influence in the resource-rich continent.

The Times of India

Didier Drogba takes on scourge of ‘fake agents’ scamming African players

The number of fake agents exploiting young African footballers is increasing and Didier Drogba says ‘the dream ends up being a nightmare’

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6 South African opposition parties to discuss forming alliance to challenge long-ruling ANC

Six opposition parties in South Africa say they will discuss forming an alliance for next year's national election in an attempt to end the 30-year hold on power of the African National Congress

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re contemporary, we’re traditional, we’re unique’: the African photographers rewriting the rules

From female bikers decked out in pink to dreamy desert tableaux, a new exhibition replaces two centuries of western influence with Africans’ own liberated visions

The Conversation

Paulina Chiziane, Mozambique's grand novelist, finally receives her prestigious award

Paulina Chiziane, the first woman to publish a novel in Mozambique, has become the first African woman to receive the most important award for Portuguese literature, the Camões Prize. She’s also the first to break all the rules about what a writer may reveal about Mozambique’s patriarchal culture and social…

The Conversation

Belgium's AfricaMuseum has a dark colonial past – it's making slow progress in confronting this history

Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without history” and fantasies of European superiority are still told in ethnographic museums, like the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and the Musée du…

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The Guardian - UK

Spanish police arrest 15 after long investigation into alleged people-smuggling gang

Operation allegedly involved moving people from Syria to Spain on a circuitous route via Sudan and north Africa

The Hindu

Want to see expansion of UNSC permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany, Japan: U.K.

The U.K. has called for the expansion of the UN Security Council’s permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany and Japan as well as African representation, underlining that it is high time the powerful UN body entered the 2020s.

Space

Watch lightning crackle over Europe and Africa in stunning video from powerful new weather satellite

Stunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Conversation

The Global South is on the rise – but what exactly is the Global South?

The unwillingness of many leading countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to stand with NATO over the war in Ukraine has brought to the fore once again the term “Global South.”

Al Jazeera

‘They have no recourse’: FIFPRO Africa on protecting footballers

Al Jazeera speaks to the union’s Geremi Njitap and Kgosana Masaseng on their work to improve player welfare.

The Guardian - UK

Meet the ‘headstrong historian’ bringing Africa’s past to life – for Africans

A visit to Nairobi’s archives led to a ‘eureka moment’ for Kenyan Chao Tayiana. She set out to retell colonial narratives – using digital technology to bring lost and suppressed stories to light

Radio France Internationale

French university begins work to return human remains to Tanzania and Namibia

The University of Strasbourg in north-east France has undertaken the task of verifying the origins of its collections of human skulls, bones and other remains that were collected in the wake of abuses under German colonial rule in Namibia and Tanzania. It comes as part of a restitution process demanded…

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