After so many years of talk about its potential, the African continent is waking up to understand and appreciate the power of unity represented by a language. The African Union (AU) officially adopted Kiswahili or Swahili as one of the official working languages of the African continent, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government…
January 2nd to 10th marked the fifth edition of the International Festival of Voodoo Culture, Arts, and Civilization that was held in the African nation of Benin. The theme of the Festival was: “Restoring Benin’s heritage. Research on the origin and transmission of knowledge in Porto-Novo’. The 2022 Festival was an opportunity to present to…
The prestigious 2021 Goncourt Prize has been won by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, with his novel “La plus secrète mémoire des hommes”, or “The most secret memory of men.” The book was published in France by Philippe Rey. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr thus became the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to receive France’s most prestigious literary prize.…
The novelist’s remarks went viral after she criticized former students as well as “social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony
From a cursory look, at least two dozen US news organizations reported this story about African snails on their websites and TV broadcasts. We are not even counting the ones that reported the story in other forms. It’s the custom of many African immigrants living in the United States that when they travel to the continent,…
From fiction and non-fiction to essays and poetry, we bring you some of the continent’s most exciting reads from 2020.
Like visiting a Concentration Camp, my visit to Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a somber reminder of the depravity of the human race. A Day Trip To Cape Coast Castle in Ghana I hired a driver in Accra
Sub-Saharan Africa’s spiraling food import bill—which stood at $43 billion in 2019—has attracted mounting attention as a worrisome trend. For years, many pundits have wondered why Africa seems increasingly unable to feed itself, despite having much of the world’s remaining
Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that’s relying initially on a Chinese vaccine that has not yet completed advanced trials to prove it
Today we bring to you Part 2 of Africa Agenda’s Celebration of World Press Freedom Day in 2019. Greetings to our all of guests in the United States and around the world. Lesson to be learned: High-quality news is important News managers must make a clear distinction between reporting and opinion writing Africans must learn to separate…