In Case You Missed It: 9/19/16 — 9/25/16

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, France invests in Africa, art saves lives, and float­ing pow­er plants make waves off Africa’s coast. Man Used Art to Save Peo­ple Dur­ing Ebo­la Cri­sis Dur­ing last year’s major Ebo­la out­break, UNICEF called on artists to cre­ate infor­ma­tive posters on how…

In Case You Missed It: 9/05/16 — 9/11/16

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, Niger­ian film­mak­ers get a big break and Ghana’s women take to the roads. Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val Turns Spot­light to Nige­ria Lagos, Nige­ria was cho­sen by the Toron­to Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­it­val (TIFF) to take part in its 2016 City to City program.…

In Case You Missed It: 8/22/16 — 9/1/16

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, Face­book founder, Mark Zucker­berg vis­its Nige­ria and Kenya, and African migrants flow into Mex­i­co. Mex­i­co Issues Tran­sit Visas to African Migrants  Accord­ing to an Asso­ci­at­ed Press sto­ry reprint­ed by the Col­orado Springs Gazette, author­i­ties in Mex­i­co have recent­ly issued tran­sit visas…

In Case You Missed It: 5/30/16 – 6/6/16

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and about Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up In this week’s news, Ethiopia’s for­mer health min­is­ter seek­ing to be next WHO chief, and African chefs want you to savor an African dish. African Chefs Using The Web to Pro­mote Their Dish­es  For those who travel…

In Case You Missed It 8/17/15 — 8/23/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. The week brings news about the launch of Google’s newest gad­get in sev­er­al African coun­tries, as well as analy­sis from For­eign Affairs mag­a­zine which gives a rat­ing of the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion’s Africa pol­i­cy thus far. Google expands…

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Africans More Optimistic about Future: Pew Study

News that the African con­ti­nent is mak­ing progress con­tin­ues to pour in. Not only is the con­ti­nent mak­ing progress eco­nom­i­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly, but opti­mism by the African peo­ple is also play­ing a role in this as well. In a recent Pew Research Cen­ter sur­vey of eight nations, the research found that Africans were more opti­mistic about…

At Achebe’s Funeral, Africans Reminded to be Stewards of Democracy

Thou­sands of mourn­ers con­verged in Ogi­di, Anam­bra State of Nige­ria, on May 23, for the funer­al ser­vice of Africa’s lit­er­ary icon, Chin­ua Achebe. He died in Boston, USA, on March 21. Achebe was the David and Mar­i­ana Fish­er Pro­fes­sor of Africana Stud­ies at Brown Uni­ver­si­ty. The Niger­ian nov­el­ist is glob­al­ly revered for his mas­ter­piece, Things Fall…

Kenya Post Election Dialogue

Den­ver-Sat­ur­­day Feb. 9, 2008, 2:30–4:30 pm in the Com­mu­ni­ty Room of Auro­ra Cen­tral Library (14949 E. Alame­da Pkwy, Auro­ra, CO 80012) Africa Agen­da will host a his­tor­i­cal, post-elec­­tion forum and com­mu­ni­ty dia­logue on the elec­tion dis­putes in Kenya, cur­rent peace efforts, and work toward rec­on­cil­i­a­tion between Kenyan cit­i­zens and their gov­ern­ment. Long con­sid­ered one of the…