Does Africa Matter ethically In The Business of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Mary Carman & Benjamin Rosman Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology and motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthcare. But concerns have emerged about the […]
The Man Who Built The Biggest Photo Library In Africa
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Whitney Johnson “It was hard to find a single photography book in Ghana,” Paul Ninson (pictured above) told me when we met at the International Center of Photography, where he was a student before the pandemic. He also told me what a […]
The Senegalese Who Recently Won France’s Most Prestigious Literary Honors
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Caroline D. Laurent Sarr is the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving about The Most Secret Memory of Men, his novel about a young Senegalese writer living in Paris. The jury made a unanimous […]
Apartheid South Africa: The Confessions Of A Hit-man
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Keith Gottschalk A raft of confessions have been published in the past three decades chronicling the stories of white men in uniform who plied their trade as apartheid heavies and enforcers. The brutality they dispensed – killings, assassinations, torture, beatings – also […]
Black South Africa’s Cry About Her “Worldlessness”
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Panashe Chigumadzi “Ilizwe lifile!” The world is dead! “Ilizwe lifile!” Our ancestors cried as the 1779-1879 Wars of Dispossession expanded the reach of 1652’s settler colonial conquest deep into the South African interior. Our ancestors cried that it was not only Black […]
Ethiopia: US Travel Advisory Raised to Level 4
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The Department of State raised the Travel Advisory Level for Ethiopia to Level 4 – Do Not Travel on November 2, 2021. This replaces the previous Travel Advisory issued on June 7, 2021. The full text of the updated Travel Advisory is as […]
Africa’s First COVID-19 Vaccine Plants For Rwanda & Senegal
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By David Richard Walwyn: The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has become a particularly hot topic because of the gravely unequal access to […]
Colombia’s African history And Its Powerful Historical Perspective
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Manuel Rueda Tour guide Alex Rocha stops at a large square flanked by stately colonial buildings while leading a group of tourists through the historical center of Cartagena, Colombia. The group looks at a marble statue of Christopher Columbus and a government-issued […]
Why The Erasure Of The Photo Of Young Ugandan Climate Activist At Davos went viral
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Vanessa Nakate Across Africa, the climate crisis is happening to us now, and the stories Africans have to tell are urgent – but who is listening? When The Associated Press cropped me from a photo of youth climate activists in Davos in […]
Ethiopia/Tigray: The Devastating Toll Of A vicious war
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email A year since war broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, conflict in the country is intensifying. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to two experts about the worsening humanitarian situation in Tigray and the international community’s response […]