Africa’s Chinese-built super highway: cheap or a slippery road to surveillance? Drawing the line between infrastructure and national security by…
Browsing: Africa in Fact
Nigeria’s crumbling infrastructure Since the 1970s oil boom, the government has not maintained the country’s power stations, roads, railways and…
Africa’s universities and the future by RW Johnson A close look at the 2012–13 list of the world’s 400 leading…
Ethiopia’s university revolution by Elissa Jobson Graduation day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, and the traffic has come to a…
Ethiopia’s university revolution by Elissa Jobson Graduation day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, and the traffic has come to a…
Madagascar’s education: less than zero by Annelie Rozeboom Madagascar once boasted one of the finest school systems in French-speaking Africa.…
Two decades after apartheid by Lucy Holborn “It’s bad. It just is,” says Malehlohonolo Khauoe about the education she received…
South Africa: beyond the doom and gloom by Gavin Davis In the early 1950s, South Africa’s minister of native affairs,…
South Sudan: the scourge of early and forced marriage by Anthony Kamba Emelda Juan has packed a lifetime into less…
In Senegal, NGOs and government work to eliminate the cutting and removal of women’s genitalia by Jennifer Lazuta Marieme Bamba,…
