Loved this series of 1000 portraits from Sudan
- The AU plans to introduce a single passport, which will let African citizens travel around the continent without visas. Then everyone can pop over to happening cities like Abidjan for a weekend
- African innovators to watch: 42 (mostly tech) entrepreneurs and 8 disability activists out to change the world
- Are you an African journalist? Check out the African Fact-Checking Awards, sponsore by Wits Journalism and the African Media Initiative
- In Somalia, unrest in the Middle East is undermining the camel trade, and parents in Somaliland are going to great lengths to stop their children from trying to migrate to Europe
- The rise of novel types of protest is exemplified by east Africa’s naked protestors (“undress for redress”) and Kenyan boda drivers’ decision to plant trees in the middle of poorly maintained roads
- Zoé Samudzi argues that high income countries need decolonized, not “diverse,” curricula. A important place to start is by amplifying the voices of African scholars in African studies. Check out this list of 10 books you need to read on contemporary life in Africa as well
- There’s a lot of exciting work going on in education within Africa as well. I loved this piece on Senegalese secondary schoolers competing in the Pan-African Robotics Competition. And organizations like the Nsibidi Institute in Nigeria are digitizing local archives
