Senegal's traditional wrestling, Lutte sénégalaise, has transcended its roots as a village spectacle to become a professionally organised, nationally televised, and increasingly internationally rec…
Morocco has achieved a milestone in health sovereignty: pharmaceutical self-sufficiency, producing over 70 percent of its domestic medicine needs and establishing an export-oriented pharmaceutical …
Tanzania's national school feeding programme, one of Africa's largest and most rigorously evaluated, has demonstrated that nourishment and education are inseparable — with consistent, nutritious sc…
South Africa's National Assembly has passed a sweeping electoral reform bill that for the first time allows independent candidates to contest seats in the National Assembly, ending a decades-long s…
Ethiopia's telecommunications liberalisation — long delayed but finally executed — has unleashed a connectivity revolution, with mobile penetration, internet access, and digital financial services …
Egypt's New Administrative Capital has crossed from construction project to functioning city, with government ministries, embassies, and the first 50,000 residents now occupying what is becoming Af…
Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme, deploying 42,000 female community health workers to reach the most remote rural communities, has achieved healthcare improvements that rival the outcomes of m…
Cape Town's remarkable recovery from the brink of 'Day Zero' — the threatened shutoff of all public water supply — has been transformed from a cautionary tale into an inspiring case study in urban …
Nigeria has become the NBA's most important international talent market, producing a generation of players who are reshaping the league and inspiring millions of African young people to pick up a b…
Africa has celebrated a public health milestone of historic proportions: the continent-wide rollout of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, which is dramatically reducing deaths from a disease that ha…
Ghana is producing a generation of architects whose work is redefining African urbanism — combining deep knowledge of local materials, climate, and cultural traditions with contemporary design sens…
Ghana's bilingual education programme, which uses Ghanaian mother-tongue languages as the primary medium of instruction for the first three years of schooling before transitioning to English, is de…