May 02, 2013
Africa: How China's Cheap Phones Make Their Way to the Continent
Nathan Road is Hong Kong's busiest shopping street. It is lined with skyscrapers and decorated with neon signs of every size, colour and shape. Most of the logos are familiar:… Read more »
April 30, 2013
Africa: Funky Pack
The return of a funk gem from C.S. Crew, Nigeria's unsung session musicians. Read more »
April 26, 2013
Africa: Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
The recollections of a young MSF doctor provide a refreshing take on the humanitarian aid worker experience. Read more »
April 25, 2013
Africa: Malaria - the Ongoing Fight Against an Old, Adaptive Foe
Why has malaria proven so hard to beat? Read more »
April 23, 2013
Africa: Poverty Has a Creation Story - Let's Tell It
It is rarely explained how poverty is perpetuated, leading many to see it as natural and inevitable. If poverty is truly to be tackled, the logic of the debate must be changed. Read more »
Africa: Why Africa Needs Its Own Ivy League Institution
Africa is suffering from high graduate unemployment and many of its best students and researchers are flocking overseas. Could an African elite university turn this around? Read more »
April 18, 2013
Africa: How Canada Dominates African Mining
Foreign companies from a range of countries compete in Africa's mining sector. But according to a number of measures, those from one country dominate: Canada. Read more »
April 15, 2013
Africa: Make Polio History - Experts Unite for Declaration
Hundreds of scientists, doctors and other experts from around the world launched the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication last week, declaring that an end to the paralysing… Read more »
April 08, 2013
Africa: The Arms Trade Treaty - a Pan-African Global Policy Victory
How African nations led from the front in helping establish a global arms trade treaty. Read more »
April 05, 2013
Africa: Women's Rights - A Battle Won, a War Continues
Women all over the world fight for equality, recognition and safety every day. Read more »
Africa: Shining a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry
It's about time we called out the great myth that mass poverty just is, as if it were a natural part of some universal moral order. Such thinking is both profoundly untrue and… Read more »
April 04, 2013
Africa: Family Atlantica's Long-Awaited Album
Family Atlantica's long-awaited debut album fuses African and Latin styles to bring out the best of both. Read more »
Africa: Arms Deals With Africa - From Russia With Love
As Russia maintains its status as the world's second largest exporter of arms, it looks increasingly to Africa. Read more »
March 27, 2013
Africa: Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health With HIV Services
There is no 'one size fits all' strategy for the development challenges that face the world - and its 7 billion inhabitants - today. Read more »
March 26, 2013
Africa: "Let the World Know That Africa Will Not Agree to a Weak Treaty"
With African countries suffering the most from the arms trade's loose regulation, many African leaders are determined that talks in New York lead to a robust arms trade treaty. Read more »
March 25, 2013
Africa: Brics in Africa - a Development Dream?
This week will see the fifth annual BRICS summit held in Durban. But while full of promise, the BRICS grouping and its relationship with Africa are more complex than they may seem. Read more »
March 20, 2013
Africa: Can Feel-Good Activism Save the World?
Think Africa Press speaks to theorist Lilie Chouliaraki about how solidarity has become a consumerist choice rather than a conviction, and more about ourselves than others. Read more »
March 18, 2013
Africa: The Arms Trade Treaty - in Search of a Silver Bullet
Delegates are at the UN negotiating a treaty regarding the world's most corrupt and corrosive trade. What could a global arms treaty mean for Africa? Read more »
March 15, 2013
Africa: What Should Be in the Post-2015 Development Goals?
he 2015 expiry date for the UN's Millennium Development Goals is fast approaching. With this in mind, many have already entered the heated debate over what the MDGs actually… Read more »
Africa: Continent's 'Demographic Dividend' - the Youth Will Decide
Africa's age structure is said to be reaching its 'Goldilocks moment' where things are 'just right'. Falling birth and mortality rates mean there are more people of working age… Read more »
March 08, 2013
Africa: How African Feminism Changed the World
'Feminism' has often been seen as a Western concept, but African women are increasingly redefining it to suit their own purposes. This, in turn, is influencing the rest of the… Read more »
Africa: Making Family Planning Accessible and Affordable
A new public-private partnership is trying to reduce the price and extend the availability of a long-term, reversible contraceptive device. Read more »
March 07, 2013
Africa: Post-MDGs - It's Time to Listen to the People
For development to be real and sustainable it needs to be based on indigenous knowledge and solutions, not donor-led philanthropy. Read more »
March 06, 2013
Africa: Women's Rights - No More Trade-Offs or Compromises
Let's start with some of the things you may take for granted. Freedom to walk on the streets, freedom to marry who you want to, protect your body and be safe. Read more »
March 05, 2013
Africa: Singing, Spirituality and Islam
From Timbuktu to Zanzibar and Senegal to Sudan, music can both unite and divide Muslim communities. Some see it as a problem, some as the solution. Read more »