In Case You Missed It 9/1/15 – 9/6/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. This week we look at the threat posed by reli­gious rad­i­cals in a Cen­tral African nation, the effects of tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion in many African coun­tries, and a sport­ing extrav­a­gan­za begins in Braz­zav­ille. 1. Reli­gious rad­i­cals risk…

In Case You Missed It 8/17/15 — 8/23/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. The week brings news about the launch of Google’s newest gad­get in sev­er­al African coun­tries, as well as analy­sis from For­eign Affairs mag­a­zine which gives a rat­ing of the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion’s Africa pol­i­cy thus far. Google expands…

In Case You Missed It 06/22/15–06/28/15

The most impor­tant of this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  AGOA lives on, Buhari pre­pares for U.S. vis­it In the week that just passed, we look at two key sto­ries mak­ing head­line news about Africa. Both the U.S. House and Sen­ate reau­tho­rized AGOA, or the African Growth Opportunity…

African Journalists Pay Visit to Africa Agenda

Thanks to World Den­ver and the U.S. Depart­ment of State Inter­na­tion­al Vis­i­tor Lead­er­ship Pro­gram (IVLP), on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 29, 15 Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ists from West Africa paid a vis­it to the Africa Agen­da orga­ni­za­tion in Den­ver, Col­orado. The vis­it includ­ed a dis­cus­sion about inno­v­a­tive ways of deliv­er­ing news today, free­dom of the press in Africa, how…

Video: Agricultural Co-ops- Enabling Economic Advancement in Africa

Mon­i­ca LaBiche-Brown, exec­u­tive direc­tor of Africa Devel­op­ment Promise, sat down for an inter­view with Africa Agen­da to dis­cuss the organization’s plans for build­ing path­ways to eco­nom­ic inde­pen­dence in Africa. These coop­er­a­tives or co-ops are espe­cial­ly impor­tant in areas of rur­al Africa where small farm­ers may not have the mon­e­tary funds avail­able to grow and sustain…

Cameroon’s Reunification Monument: A New Historical and Touristic Destination

There are var­ied opin­ions about Africa, includ­ing the Cen­tral African nation of Cameroon. When vis­it­ing Cameroon for the first time, peo­ple expect dif­fer­ent things. But what seems to be giv­ing Cameroon and Buea, the South West Region­al Head­quar­ters and for­mer Cap­i­tal of Ger­man Kamerun, in par­tic­u­lar a new image, is the new his­tor­i­cal touris­tic site,…