9 Best Articles in 2022
News24
South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insight
News24
~13 min read · From 2017 · News24, South Africa's premier news source, provides breaking news on national, world, Africa, sport, entertainment, technology & more.
Reader View · Shared by 4272, including Tarik ESSAADI, David Doughty, Scott Santens, Anon Anon
The Guardian
Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern world
The Guardian
~14 min read · 2021-10-12 · 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…
Reader View · Shared by 184, including Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Ibram X. Kendi, Columbia University, isaac Samuel, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Steve Faulkner
The Guardian
Scientists call for travel ‘code red’ over Covid variant found in southern Africa
The Guardian
3 min read · 2021-11-25 · Variant causing concern because of ‘extremely high’ number of mutations may be present across South Africa
Reader View · Shared by 118, including Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, John Tasioulas, Marcel Salathé, Kenneth Kalmer, Roger Highfield, Arin Basu, Carly
Guardian Tech
Facebook’s second life: the unstoppable rise of the tech company in Africa
Guardian Tech
8 min read · Jan 20th · Western users may be logging off, but across the continent of Africa, the social media company is indispensable for everything from running a business to sourcing vaccines. How has it become so…
Reader View · Shared by 41, including Tactical Tech, emily bell, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mark Kaigwa
The Guardian
Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked?
The Guardian
4 min read · From 2020 · Examples of innovation aren’t getting the fanfare they would do if they emerged from Europe or the US, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
Reader View · Shared by 158, including Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes 😷 💙, Ken Norton, Vikram Dutt, Luca Like, Christopher Lauer, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Graham Brown-Martin, Mark Kaigwa, Martin Varsavsky 🇺🇦, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Larry Ferlazzo, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Olori’s Baby
The New Yorker
The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
The New Yorker
20+ min read · 2021-11-28 · Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by…
Reader View · Shared by 332, including Tactical Tech, Bill McKibben, BenYT, David Nagel, Rebecca Buxton, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Frederic Filloux, hakan, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Lucas Laursen
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.
Reader View · Shared by 205, including Dr. Syra Madad, Muge Cevik, Forbes India, adventuregirl, Nate Silver, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki, Steven Sinofsky, Eric Topol, Edward Tufte, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Kim Pearson, Massimo Pigliucci, Eric Vitiello, Andy Slavitt 💙💛, Deborah Blum, Scott Galloway, Anna Irrera, Juliette Kayyem, Virginia Hughes
The Brookings Institution
Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2019
The Brookings Institution
1 min read · From 2019 · Africa and its stakeholders have good reasons to be optimistic, including accelerated economic growth and a promising continent-wide free trade agreement. However, the continent faces grave challenges, including an impending debt crisis and worsening fragility and poverty due to climate change. This Brookings Institution report based on multiple contributors offers diverse insights into what African nations are doing to seize opportunities and mitigate social and economic disasters.
Summary · Shared by 81, including getAbstract
The Brookings Institution
Spotlighting opportunities for business in Africa and strategies to succeed in the world’s next big growth market
The Brookings Institution
6 min read · From 2019 · Companies seeking to expand their global presence should look beyond emerging markets in India and China to Africa, write consultant Acha Leke and economist Landry Signé in this illuminating report. They explain how Africa’s growth capacity presents numerous opportunities for investment, despite the region’s challenges, and that companies with the foresight to look at the continent’s unmet needs can realize strong profits while contributing to development. Executives and investors will find this a good introduction to what African business has to offer.
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Mongabay
What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds
Mongabay
4 min read · May 9th · In 2019, researchers sailed to a sprawling seamount off the coast of South Africa, and lowered hydrophones to the seafloor. They picked up all kinds of noises: waves, the crackling of the reef,…
Reader View · Shared by 54
Quartz
Is it too late for vaccine equity in Africa?
Quartz
3 min read · Apr 12th · As countries across the world are easing or removing their covid-19 restrictions to open their economies and return to a normal life, countries in Africa are increasingly following suit, despite low…
Reader View · Shared by 75
The Guardian
If the west can harbor Ukrainians, it can accept the many climate refugees to come
The Guardian
4 min read · Apr 1st · The Ukraine war has revealed the double-standards of the Global North’s immigration policies. Refugees from Africa, Asia and Latin America deserve the same sympathy
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 84, including PhilanTopic, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
nature
Are COVID surges becoming more predictable? New Omicron variants offer a hint
nature
5 min read · May 6th · Omicron relatives called BA.4 and BA.5 are behind a fresh wave of COVID-19 in South Africa, and could be signs of a more predictable future for SARS-CoV-2.
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BBC News (World)
Africa's iconic architecture in 12 buildings
BBC News (World)
5 min read · 2021-10-12 · Two architects are determined to showcase the architecture of Africa to the world - past and present.
Reader View · Shared by 77, including AIA National
MIT Technology Review
The problems AI has today go back centuries
MIT 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…
Reader View · Shared by 165, including Tamara McCleary, Dominik Grolimund, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Katja Evertz, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Bill Johnston, Terence Mills, Marten Mühlenstein, Nige Willson, Andreas Staub, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Dean Anthony Gratton
The New York Times
How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South Africa
The 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.
Reader View · Shared by 54, including Mark Kaigwa, Anon Anon, DHH, Max Harlow
isaac Samuel
When Africans Wrote Their Own History; A Catalogue of African Historiography Written by African Scribes From Antiquity…
isaac Samuel
Reader View · Shared by 226, including maxadorno, Ceferino Díaz, Mark Kaigwa
Mongabay
What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds
Mongabay
4 min read · May 9th · In 2019, researchers sailed to a sprawling seamount off the coast of South Africa, and lowered hydrophones to the seafloor. They picked up all kinds of noises: waves, the crackling of the reef,…
Reader View · Shared by 54
nature
Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
nature
3 min read · 2021-11-25 · Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.
Reader View · Shared by 142, including Rick Powell, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Atul Gawande, Eric Topol, Karen K. Ho, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Carla Gentry, Fabio Chiusi, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD, Carly, Marcel Janus, Constantin Gurdgiev, Paul O'Brien
medium.com
Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of this web form
medium.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…
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Thomas Power, ₵BZ, Mark Kaigwa, Isabel Drost-Fromm, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
World Economic Forum
A new kind of company is revolutionising Africa's gig economy
World Economic Forum
3 min read · From 2019 · The informal economy operates from the sidelines, beyond the reach of government regulation or taxation. Most informal employment occurs in developing countries, where it’s been keeping local people afloat for decades. But the work is unpredictable, workers can be unreliable, and neither workers nor employers thrive under uncertainty. Such is the case in Africa, where the working-age population is booming but jobs are in short supply. According to this World Economic Forum article, mobile technology and its proclivity for finding, gathering and mobilizing temporary workers may be the answer.
World Economic Forum
How to preserve Africa's forests and build a green economy
World Economic Forum
5 min read · 2021-06-26 · Africa is well positioned to harness nature-based solutions that protect biodiversity and create jobs. A UN-backed project in Gabon proves how its possible.
Reader View · Shared by 57, including Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, AI, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Harold Sinnott 📱📲 #SAPSapphireOrlando, Dr. Sally Eaves #TechForGood #GartnerSummitEMEA
