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Tune in to African Currents for a deep dive into the continent's heartbeat. Explore Africa's multifaceted issues from unique perspectives, featuring insights and in-depth analyses from leading experts on pressing topics.
Chimauchem Nwosu hosts African Currents, a news show with 205 episodes published.
A new artificial intelligence platform developed in Nigeria is learning to master the tonal and phonetic complexities of African languages, enabling it to compose and sing authentic-sounding music for the first time.
Across Africa, officials are pushing reforms to strengthen IP systems and boost monetization or commercialization of innovation, aiming to move economies beyond raw material exports and into higher-value knowledge-based
A growing body of evidence suggests that modern medicine’s evidence base is geographically narrow in ways that are no longer defensible. Africa remains largely peripheral to the clinical trial ecosystem that determines h
A geological phenomenon stretching over 2,000 miles across East Africa is unzipping the continent faster than geologists previously believed earlier this year. They projected that a new ocean could form in the coming yea
What was once a continent of telescope hosts has become a force in scientific leadership, technical capability, and sustained astronomical investment.
Long overshadowed by extractive industries, Africa's creative sector is gaining momentum as a multibillion-dollar industry, with governments and investors increasingly backing film, music, fashion, and digital content as
Around 20,000 participants from more than 130 countries gathered in St. Petersburg this week for the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), where Putin delivered the keynote address on Friday, June 5.
Scholars in Africa are challenging a widespread but often subtle genetically modified agricultural inputs, such as seeds, across the continent, arguing that Western multinational agribusiness firms are using biotechnolog
Africa hosts one of the world's fastest-growing digital populations. Several Western multinational tech corporations extract billions in value from digital activities of the continent's internet users, leaving them with
What began as a locally driven effort to address blood health challenges in African communities has quietly grown into something the international medical community can no longer ignore.
For years, Africans were taught Greek philosophy as the foundation of human thought, while indigenous thought systems were dismissed as folklore. Now, African thinkers, scholars, and philosophers are challenging that dis
With artificial intelligence now embedded in several of Africa's key economic sectors. researchers warn that global safety frameworks have failed to reckon with a troubling reality. Many of these systems were built to ex
Across Africa, smallholder farmers have long relied on colonial agricultural systems like monocropping that have depleted soil health and undermined food security, prompting agricultural experts and policy advocates to c
The African Union (AU) is stepping up efforts to meet the goals of Agenda 2063, as pressure builds on member states to accelerate trade, governance, and infrastructure reforms enshrined in the region's long-term developm
Governments in Africa have launched a continental trade pact aimed at breaking down long-standing barriers to commerce and economic integration across the region. Experts believe the framework marks a pivotal moment for
The British colonial administration repurposed their prisons into concentration camps, rebranded as a "rehabilitation" system. The penal enclaves were designed to remove thousands of Mau Mau suspects from any judicial pr
Water has become a strategic issue, not confined to development policy but as a foundation for sustainable growth in every sector. With the African Union elevating it on its agenda, experts believe the window has opened
Digital assets are shifting from speculative novelties to economic lifelines in Africa, promising to dismantle long-standing barriers to financial inclusion and stabilize trade across the continent's rapidly evolving tec
Agricultural experts are urging African nations to declare a state of emergency over soil degradation as rapid land loss, nutrient depletion, and erosion worsen food insecurity across the continent. They warn that withou
European governments and major energy firms are racing to lock in long-term supply deals for green hydrogen across Africa, drawn by the continent's vast solar and wind potential. Yet a growing chorus of African experts w
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