In July of 2015, while sitting in my humid, candle-lit bedroom in Lagos Nigeria, my older sister and I engaged in one of our many meaningful...
Why Visa Privilege is a Press Freedom Issue By Christina Lee Imagine two journalists want to investigate a story about corruption in the tomato trade between Gambia...
BY Kathryn Mathers Nigerian women photographed for the New York Times by Adam Ferguson. In early April, the New York Times published the photo essay, “Portraits of Dignity,” a...
Losing your doctors, engineers, professors and other skilled professionals can be detrimental to your country. Brain drain is a topic with which many countries deal. In...
by Abigail Anaba A few decades ago, it was unheard of for women to live alone and raise their children. Women who married had a ride...
Car horns blared and cheering crowds raced through the streets of the Zimbabwean capital Harare Tuesday as news spread that President Robert Mugabe, 93, had resigned...
Africa needs 11 million more doctors, nurses and teachers by 2030 to prevent a “social and economic disaster” that could propel millions to migrate, the United...
Many Ghanaian children under the age of five suffer the irreversible effects of malnutrition in their critical first 1,000 days of life. This is the time...
(Photo: Girls sit in a dilapidated classroom in Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2012. Credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) Nigeria’s government recently acknowledged for the first time that...
by Emma Batha LONDON, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Ugandan schoolgirl Auma got her first period she asked her mother for sanitary pads. Her...
LONDON, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poverty and state violence, not religion, are driving young Africans to join militant groups, the United Nations said on...
By Mercy Abang On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic built a wall between East and West Berlin. The intention...
