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9 Best Articles in 2021
News24
South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insightNews24
~13 min read · From 2017 · News24, South Africa's premier news source, provides breaking news on national, world, Africa, sport, entertainment, technology & more.
The Guardian
Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked?The Guardian
4 min read · 2020-05-21 · Examples of innovation aren’t getting the fanfare they would do if they emerged from Europe or the US, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
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africaindata.org
Africa In Dataafricaindata.org
1 min read · From 2016 · A short presentation about how conditions in Africa are changing.
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Aeon+Psyche
Liberating the precolonial history of AfricaAeon+Psyche
~15 min read · 2020-01-16 · The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism
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The Economist
The true true size of AfricaThe Economist
3 min read · From 2017 · Africa is bigger than it looks on most maps of the world
The New York Times
How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South AfricaThe New York Times
~19 min read · From 2018 · When the godfather of management consulting landed its biggest contract ever in Africa, it made the worst mistake in its storied nine-decade history.
youdontknowafrica.com
You Don't Know Africayoudontknowafrica.com
1 min read · From 2015 · Find all African countries as quick as you can. It's harder than you might think.
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geography
The Guardian
Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern worldThe Guardian
~14 min read · Oct 12th · The long read: The creation of the modern, interconnected world is generally credited to European pioneers. But Africa was the wellspring for almost everything they achieved – and African lives were…
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Columbus, an Italian from Genoa, had sailed to Europe’s first large, fortified overseas outpost, which was located in the tropics at Elmina, in modern-day Ghana
helped fund Vasco da Gama’s later mission of discovery to Asia
The New York Times
The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us?The New York Times
7 min read · 2020-12-20 · Officials in Britain and South Africa claim new variants are more easily transmitted. There’s a lot more to the story, scientists say.
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The Guardian
Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern worldThe Guardian
~14 min read · Oct 12th · The long read: The creation of the modern, interconnected world is generally credited to European pioneers. But Africa was the wellspring for almost everything they achieved – and African lives were…
history
Most highlighted
Columbus, an Italian from Genoa, had sailed to Europe’s first large, fortified overseas outpost, which was located in the tropics at Elmina, in modern-day Ghana
helped fund Vasco da Gama’s later mission of discovery to Asia
isaac Samuel
When Africans Wrote Their Own History; A Catalogue of African Historiography Written by African Scribes From Antiquity…isaac Samuel
history
Summary, by the author
Sub-Saharan Africa is often the last place most consider when engaging in discourses about written history, yet hundreds of manuscripts and inscriptions written by African scribes exist that narrate the continent's history; from Senegal in west to Ethiopia in the east, and from Sudan in the north to Angola in the south
In this article, I have catalogued the most readily available documents of African historiography (more than 60 of them plus at least one image for each of their folios), I have also included 107 links to their online catalogues and added more than 70 publication references for further reading
I hope this catalogue will be useful; for both history academics and enthusiasts alike, as a comprehensive introduction to Sub-Saharan African historiography
Read the full article  (20+ min read)
The New York Times
A ‘Historical Event’: W.H.O. Approves the First Malaria VaccineThe New York Times
5 min read · Oct 6th · The disease kills about 500,000 people each year, about half of them children in Africa.
The Verge
Alphabet’s Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5kmThe Verge
2 min read · Sep 16th · The wireless link connects two cities in Africa over a river
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The wireless optical link achieved 99.9 percent availability over 20 days
Sort of like fiber optic cables without the cable, FSOC can create a 20Gbps+ broadband link from two points that have a clear line of sight
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Twitter
Establishing Twitter's presence in AfricaTwitter
1 min read · Apr 12th · Announcing that, as part of Twitter's growth strategy, we're actively hiring for roles in Ghana, Africa.
medium.com
Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of this web formmedium.com
2 min read · From 2018 · I have attended several Tech events where they invite so-called gurus and experts to explain the digital landscape in Africa, but I have…
The New Yorker
What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the CoronavirusThe New Yorker
6 min read · 2020-05-15 · From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries in Africa pursued public-health measures more aggressively than the U.S. and Europe did.
africa
government
isaac Samuel
When Africans Wrote Their Own History; A Catalogue of African Historiography Written by African Scribes From Antiquity…isaac Samuel
history
Summary, by the author
Sub-Saharan Africa is often the last place most consider when engaging in discourses about written history, yet hundreds of manuscripts and inscriptions written by African scribes exist that narrate the continent's history; from Senegal in west to Ethiopia in the east, and from Sudan in the north to Angola in the south
In this article, I have catalogued the most readily available documents of African historiography (more than 60 of them plus at least one image for each of their folios), I have also included 107 links to their online catalogues and added more than 70 publication references for further reading
I hope this catalogue will be useful; for both history academics and enthusiasts alike, as a comprehensive introduction to Sub-Saharan African historiography
Read the full article  (20+ min read)
nature
Satellites could soon map every tree on Earthnature
5 min read · 2020-10-15 · Individual tree canopies pinpointed over a large area of West Africa.
science
TechCrunch
Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itselfTechCrunch
7 min read · From 2018 · Africa has been one of the least-developed regions globally when it comes to technology and being on the less advanced side of the so-called digital divide. But with a huge population and a set of nations whose economies are rapidly changing, we are seeing a significant knock-on effect in tech. Tod…
The New York Times
A ‘Historical Event’: W.H.O. Approves the First Malaria VaccineThe New York Times
5 min read · Oct 6th · The disease kills about 500,000 people each year, about half of them children in Africa.
The New York Times
As Virus Resurges in Africa, Doctors Fear the Worst Is Yet to ComeThe New York Times
~15 min read · 2020-12-26 · The coronavirus killed far fewer people in Africa than in Europe and the Americas, leading to a widespread perception that it was a disease of the West. Now, a tide of new cases on the continent is…
MIT Technology Review
The problems AI has today go back centuriesMIT Technology Review
4 min read · 2020-07-31 · In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining magnate who had gifted the land on…
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