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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.
Unknown Host hosts African Currents, a news show with 224 episodes published.
A new book has placed the International Monetary Fund’s record in Africa under scrutiny, examining how loan conditionalities, austerity measures, currency reforms, privatization, and other structural adjustment programs
As endangered African languages lose speakers, communities and researchers are turning to digital tools to document languages that may otherwise disappear from everyday use. In South Africa, efforts to preserve N|uu have
A new report warns that Nigeria’s 2027 general election could be the country’s first election contested in an era of widespread access to generative artificial intelligence tools, with fabricated audio, video, and images
President Bola Tinubu will secure a permanent seat for Nigeria on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, said recently, citing Nigeria's sustai
The globe's richest individuals have built fortunes through stakes in and ownership of highly polluting assets while African communities with far fewer resources face the growing consequences of climate change, according
In African households and office spaces, a broken laptop or a dead refrigerator usually gets abandoned rather than repaired. One entrepreneur built a national recycling movement out of that very habit, turning Kenya's wa
For decades, Africa’s health progress has depended heavily on external support, particularly in the fight against HIV/AIDS and efforts to strengthen health security. Experts are urging governments to mobilize domestic re
An initiative to create a seamless digital marketplace is steadily taking shape across East Africa through regional policy reforms and investment, as governments work to harmonize digital trade rules, expand connectivity
As debt-service obligations continue to outpace education spending across Africa and the developing world, experts say smarter debt reforms could create the fiscal space governments need to invest more in education and s
In a major boost for specialist healthcare in Africa, the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) has completed its first open-heart surgery and delivered West Africa's first stereotactic body radiation therapy treat
A coordinated drive to scale up malaria diagnostics, bed nets, and rapid treatment is now easing Africa’s child mortality burden, according to researchers who say the continent has entered its most aggressive phase of ma
The global push for a sustainable blue economy now hinges on Africa’s vast inland and coastal water systems, prompting investors to channel capital into the continent’s aquaculture and treat it as critical infrastructure
A growing number of contemporary African writers are rejecting Western literary gatekeepers to prioritize their own lived experiences and local nuances. This deliberate pivot, argues a scholar, is actively reshaping the
As the Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformburo) marks its 85th anniversary, it spotlights its journey from a wartime information bureau to the media lineage that now includes Sputnik, revealing decades of expanding news
From unexpected victories to fearless displays against established football powerhouses, African teams have used the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup to showcase the depth of talent developing across the continent, prompting ex
A new study has found that today's leading large language models largely exclude indigenous African oral knowledge because they are trained primarily on digitized, Western-centric datasets.
Africa's fastest-growing social media market covers fewer than 20 of the continent's vast linguistic diversity, leaving creators and influencers posting in Swahili, Acholi, Igbo, Wolof, Kiswahili, or Amharic at the mercy
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
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