By John Dell’Osso and Douglas Gillison If you live near buried treasure—huge deposits of oil and gas, eye-popping reserves of gold, copper, bauxite...
Category - Africa
Stories and features from across the continent
By Thomas Bwire “Don’t Kill me daddy Don’t Kill me, Don’t Kill me daddy was the screaming sound of the boy as I beat him with a belt without mercy...
By Maurice Oniango Benjamin Menza was walking along a small bushy footpath on their farm in Watamu on a relatively warm evening when he suddenly felt...
By Christabel Ligami Margaret Lodomo is a 62-year-old, reformed circumciser from Karon, Kapenguria in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. Lodomo...
By Kabugi Mbae If Equatorial Guinea’s president Teodoro Obiang will still be in power by August 3rd 2023, he will have broken the record of...
By Kabugi Mbae Obesity rates in sub-Saharan Africa are shooting up fast. With many countries’ health systems ill-equipped to tackle the diseases that...
As the world moves towards mainstreaming marijuana, only a handful of African states have made medical marijuana legal. “God has made over 430 plants...
For years, Kenya Airways has been a symbol of Kenya’s national pride, the national carrier and Kenya’s flag in the air to various...
Jess B. Goes to the Motherland The proverbial “man-in-the-street” leaves Harlem and goes to Nairobi. Pete M. Mhunzi James Langston Hughes, (1902...
The Elephant publisher John Githongo talks to Prof Attiya Waris and Dr Mary Nyamongo on matters COVID-19, the responses to the pandemic by...