Africa
The woman who’s solved the world music appropriation debate
Angélique Kidjo takes back the African sounds borrowed by western artists – and makes better records from them
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Ebola, USAID and how Musk’s spending cuts will kill millions
Decisions taken by the department he led to reduce aid to Africa have made the current Ebola outbreak worse. The total effect of what he did will be catastrophic
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Africans are doing it for themselves
From poverty and conflict to inadequate infrastructure and stagnating economies, the challenges facing the continent are immense
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Zed Nelson’s unnatural world
The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle
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Macron and Le Pen squabble among the ruins of Mayotte
The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean
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Jazz, colonialism and the cold war
An astounding, eccentric documentary uncovers a murky assassination plot involving Belgium, the CIA and Louis Armstrong
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The Canary Islands’ accidental tourists
The islands welcome 14 million holidaymakers a year. Now asylum seekers are frequent visitors, too
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Death in the mountains
Migrants from north Africa are trying to walk across the Alps. And many are dying in the attempt
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The ghosts that haunt France in Africa
Macron wants a reset, but unravelling the country’s tangled legacy in the continent is proving harder than it sounds
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History weighs heavy as Macron seeks to reset relations with Africa
A recent visit to Algeria was part of efforts to write a new chapter in diplomacy - but the ghosts of France's exploitative colonial past linger on
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: What Britain can learn from Côte d’Ivoire
Priti Patel should take note of the way the West African nation embraces migrants
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Death by a thousand cuts: The decline of the UK as an aid superpower
When Boris Johnson’s government cut the aid budget in 2020, it dealt a devastating blow to charities and the people they support, but did it also sound the death knell for the UK’s role as an aid superpower?
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To Have and Have Not: A special investigation into global migration
What are its causes? What are the solutions? And, more importantly, why does the West choose to ignore them?
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How I discovered my family’s dark history of slavery
Black History is a rich and complex tapestry. In this spirit, BONNIE GREER introduces one of her ancestors, an African American slave owner
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The Cup is the new goal for Samuel Eto’o
The Cameroonian soccer player has his eyes set firmly on the prize, writes ROB HUGHES.
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Could Ethiopia disintegrate? Thinking the unthinkable in the Horn of Africa
A one-time economic tiger and a linchpin of stability in a fragile region, Ethiopia now stands on the brink of disaster. What happened to Africa’s oldest independent country?
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Africa’s latest jump leapfrogs the world
Somaliland is introducing the world’s most advanced voting system. It is, says CALESTOUS JUMA, just one example of the way African countries are surprisingly skipping ahead in technological innovation Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging. This is a process that involves skipping stages and moving rapidly to the frontiers of innovation. Technological […]