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The countries that invest in youth now will be the ones that define global innovation in the coming years

  • Monica Geingos is founder of Leadership Lab Yetu and former first lady of Namibia

For the first…

3 months ago

Library science graduate who made the Ballon d’Or shortlist has Wafcon title defence and World Cup in his sights

At 61, most top-level head coaches have nostalgic moments as they reflect on the high p…

‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film

He was mentored by Buddy Guy as a teen and played for Michelle Obama in the White House. Now, the 26-year-old Mississippi guitar hero is bringing the blues back into the spotlight – and taking it to …

5 months ago

Guilt can be good. It is healthy when it alerts us to having wronged someone and prompts us to put things right by apologising and repairing any damage we've done.

Men were sent on from Ghana despite ‘risk of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment’

A lawyer for 11 west Africans deported by the US to Ghana said they had been returned to their home countries d…

8 months ago

Esther Phillips says her poetry’s ‘ultimate goal’ is to achieve justice for those who suffered at hands of European colonisers

Esther Phillips, the Barbados poet laureate, grew up next to Drax Hall Es…

11 months ago

Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gap

When Yaw Bediako lost his father to liver cancer, it set…

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up the continent to “own” it themselves.

12 months ago

As the US rips up its rules-based order and threatens sovereign nations, this is the time to make allies. Reparations might help

Imagine this: a continent scarred by centuries of violence and exploita…

The US president's imagined entitlement to other people’s land is very familiar to Africans.

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