9 Best Articles in 2021
News24
South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insight
News24
~13 min read · 1489 saves · 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 · 161 saves · 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
africaindata.org
Africa In Data
africaindata.org
1 min read · 20 saves · From 2016 · A short presentation about how conditions in Africa are changing.
The Economist
The true true size of Africa
The Economist
3 min read · 47 saves · From 2017 · Africa is bigger than it looks on most maps of the world
Aeon+Psyche
Liberating the precolonial history of Africa
Aeon+Psyche
~15 min read · 24 saves · 2020-01-16 · The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism
The New York Times
How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South Africa
The New York Times
~19 min read · 54 saves · 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 Africa
youdontknowafrica.com
1 min read · 34 saves · From 2015 · Find all African countries as quick as you can. It's harder than you might think.
The New York Times
The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us?
The New York Times
7 min read · 205 saves · 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.
The New Yorker
What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus
The New Yorker
6 min read · 54 saves · 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.
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VentureBeat
Building AI for the Global South
VentureBeat
~13 min read · 93 saves · Mar 7th · Business and AI leaders from India, South America, and Africa have called for more artificial intelligence built for the Global South.
aeaweb.org
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa
aeaweb.org
1 min read · 20 saves · Mar 4th · (March 2019) - To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust…
Reuters Institute
How publishers are engaging new audiences on messaging apps in the Global South
Reuters Institute
9 min read · 48 saves · Mar 2nd · Newspapers and startups from Zimbabwe, Brazil and South Africa are using WhatsApp in innovative ways, Laura Oliver reports.
PCMag
Africa and the Americas Pay the Most for the Worst Internet Service
PCMag
1 min read · 50 saves · Feb 19th · Do you think you pay a lot for your home internet? You may be paying the most for the worst quality in the world.
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The New Yorker
What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus
The New Yorker
6 min read · 54 saves · 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.
Nature
Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth
Nature
5 min read · 95 saves · 2020-10-15 · Individual tree canopies pinpointed over a large area of West Africa.
TechCrunch
Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself
TechCrunch
7 min read · 38 saves · 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…
MIT Technology Review
The problems AI has today go back centuries
MIT Technology Review
4 min read · 163 saves · 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…
youtube.com
Toto - Africa
youtube.com
31 saves · From 2016 · Toto's official music video for 'Africa'. Click to listen to Toto on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TotoSpotify?IQid=TotoAFR As featured on The Essential Toto. ...
The Washington Post
Opinion | Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn’t be surprised.
The Washington Post
43 saves · 2020-09-22 · This should have been a moment for media outlets to challenge corrosive narratives about Africa.
VICE
Smart CCTV Networks Are Driving an AI-Powered Apartheid in South Africa
VICE
~19 min read · 36 saves · 2019-11-22 · In one of the world’s most racially divided countries, a company called Vumacam is building a nationwide surveillance network that scrutinizes peoples' movements for “unusual behavior.”
Quartz
TikTok is quietly snapping up creatives from YouTube and Instagram for a full Africa roll-out
Quartz
4 min read · 49 saves · 2020-03-10 · TikTok has been investing quietly, but significantly, to usher in a new age of influencers in Africa.
Rolling Stone
How Toto’s 'Africa' Became the New 'Don't Stop Believin''
Rolling Stone
5 min read · 58 saves · From 2018 · In 2018, “Africa” follows us everywhere, like the sound of wild dogs crying out in the night. The whole weird history of American culture is in this song somewhere
