A digital education revolution is reshaping learning across the African continent, with satellite-delivered, mobile-based, and AI-assisted distance learning platforms breaking down the geographic barr…
Senegal's traditional wrestling, Lutte sénégalaise, has transcended its roots as a village spectacle to become a professionally organised, nationally televised, and increasingly internationally recogn…
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 syst…
Ethiopia's telecommunications liberalisation — long delayed but finally executed — has unleashed a connectivity revolution, with mobile penetration, internet access, and digital financial services exp…
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 much…
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 bask…
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 has c…
Kenya's National Youth Parliament, established as a consultative body three years ago, has evolved into a genuine force in national policy-making, with several of its proposals now enshrined in law an…
Ethiopia's extraordinary cultural heritage — from the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and the ancient obelisks of Axum to the walled city of Harar and the Omo Valley's tribal traditions — is attracting…
Mauritius has retained its position as Africa's best-governed country, a status it has held for over a decade, demonstrating that small island economies can build institutions of extraordinary quality…
South Africa's comprehensive reform of early childhood development has been recognised by UNICEF as the most significant improvement in early learning quality in Africa in a decade, with a nationally …
Nigeria's national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics initiative has transformed the country's educational landscape, producing a generation of technically skilled young people who are …