Africa News Matters

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Videos

These videos tell the real sto­ry about the African con­ti­nent  Africa Agen­da: World Press Free­dom Day, 2019 ‑Part 1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmCTi3zZn8 Chi­na’s Foot­print in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGnYpxTVh8 TALK AFRICA in 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojY2E5I8bG4 In a speech that went viral, Ghana’s pres­i­dent, Aku­­fo-Addo, says Africans, not for­eign­ers, should devel­op the African con­ti­nent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6OWCe-AfA Rwan­dan Leader, Kagame, Implores Africans to Hold Themselves…

The News

African News Today — This Week — This Month

“Cov­er­age of the African con­ti­nent con­sti­tutes only 5.6 per­cent of inter­na­tion­al news pro­duced by US news media. This 5.6 per­cent offers for its intend­ed audi­ence lit­tle depth in the por­tray­al of an entire con­ti­nent.”  —Asya A. Beso­va, and Skye Chance Coo­ley, For­eign News and Pub­lic Opin­ion, 2010 Each day sig­nif­i­cant African News—Today—This week— This Month happens…

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Get the Whole African Sto­ry  Designed as a crit­i­cal engage­ment web­site to sup­ple­ment Africa Agen­da, Africa News Mat­ters aims to pub­lish the whole African sto­ry, not just a part, or some parts of it. The goal is to counter the per­va­sive mis­in­for­ma­tion and stereo­typ­ing of the African con­ti­nent. We do this by pub­lish­ing the truth…

In Case You Missed It: 3/28/16- 4/4/16

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The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and about Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  In this week’s news, the Cen­tral African Repub­lic names a new Prime Min­is­ter, and U.S. econ­o­mist Har­ry Broad­man wants our eco­nom­ic per­cep­tions about Africa to change.  Econ­o­mist, Har­ry Broad­man, Frus­trat­ed By Notion of “Africa As A Country”…

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Africa News Mat­ters, a pub­li­ca­tion of Africa Agen­da, sorts out the news, bring­ing your atten­tion to the issues that may not have got­ten the most cov­er­age dur­ing the week. We would love to hear from you.  Email Us Email: Office at AfricaA­gen­da dot org Make a Dona­tion Go Here Vol­un­teer Go Here More about Africa News Matters…