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Tour ban leaves schools crying over practical learning
The Observer
1MINWhen is the trial operation for Egypt’s high-speed electric train?
Egypt Independent
1MINRSF releases four journalists and lawyer after months in detention in North Darfur
Radio Dabanga
2MINIntroducing ROAPE’s newest affiliate
Review of African Political Economy
3MINPrivate sector credit reaches E23.8bn in July
Times of Eswatini
Latest · SenePlus
Mali, deux ans de prison ferme requis contre le journaliste Abdrahamane Keïta
Mali, deux ans de prison ferme requis contre le journaliste Abdrahamane Keïta Alioune Diatta Mon, 09/07/2026 - 20:33
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Fiction · Kalahari Review
In The Midst Of The Silence Of The World
Essay on the dilemma of writing while the world burns — by Isaac Dominion AjuI can’t explain why people are wired the way they are wired. I’m a person…
6 min
History · African History Extra
The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.
Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.On 19th January 1469, the…
9 minPlaces
DStv Stream
Now the home of the Showmax Originals slate, folded in from April 2026. Do not subscribe to standalone Showmax expecting it to last.
₦4,400+/moEssays
Introducing ROAPE’s newest affiliate
I consider myself an organic intellectual because of my revolutionary commitment to confronting injustice and grounding scholarship in the lives and…
2 minNews
Face à Al Aminou Lo, je suis resté abasourdi
Face à Al Aminou Lo, je suis resté abasourdi Farid Akele Mon, 09/07/2026 - 20:32
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Tour ban leaves schools crying over practical learning
The suspension of school trips and educational tours following the July 16 tragic accident involving learners of King David Junior School in…
1 minTwo sons arrested over allegedly beheading 95-year-old mother
The Observer · length n/a
7 SepJustice Chiweshe faces misconduct hearing after sensational complaint by Munyaradzi Kereke
ZimLive · 8 min
7 SepAccord avec le FMI, le camp de Barthélémy Dias réclame des clarifications sur les contreparties
SenePlus · length n/a
7 SepLa SOTRA à Abidjan: l’incendie de trop
Connectionivoirienne · length n/a
7 SepA Kinshasa, un nouvel incendie ravage le Petit collège Saint Pierre (photos)
Actualite.cd · length n/a
How long can you keep love waiting before it stops waiting for you? — a short story by BodgesI have always been late to important things.Not meetings or flights…
Five Minutes Late · The Kalahari Review · Kalahari Review · 2 Sep
Concrete Humus
Poems exploring ecological grief in the hands of humanity, forced assimilation, and lost sanctuaries — by Leasebeth Ritz KisembaConcrete…
2 Sep · 3 min
Newcomer | ‘Pemi Aguda
They might be a small congregation, just over forty, but the Lord is good to them.…
30 Aug · length n/a
3 Poems by Ewurama Tawiah Welbeck
The Weight of Dark Shades in White Hues i see the devouring spirits circle my joy. …
28 Aug · 2 min
Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine Issue 35 August 2026
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction…
25 Aug · length n/a
The Shipikisha Club x Mubanga Kalimamukwento
324 pp. July 23, 2026, Cassava Republic Press. Fiction/Zambia. Sali has murdered her husband. She’s the only real witness to his death—it was just…
4 min LR 8826 SepA Review of ‘The Visit And Other Stories’ by Ebele Mọgọ Akumbu Uche
The Visit and Other Stories, Ebele Mọgọ, 2026; Masobe, pp 187 According to conventional wisdom, people are wired for success either in the arts…
3 min ABC 8182 SepLiving Sustainably Here: African Perspectives on the SDGs: A Review
Introduction In an era where the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are often discussed through Western-centric lenses, Living Sustainably Here: African Perspectives on…
7 min OCM 80618 AugThe Sabi Prize, for Secondary School Students in Nigeria, Announces Inaugural Winners
Founded by Chukwuka Odigbo and Dawn Chinagorom-Abiakalam, and judged by Adachioma Ezeano and Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, the ₦2.95 million ($2,165) Sabi Prize for Critical…
length n/a JRB 80615 Dec 2025The JRB Fiction Issue! (Vol. 9, Issue 3, December 2025)
Wamuwi Mbao • Makhosazana Xaba • Simon van Schalkwyk • Khadija Tracey Heeger • Sean Jacobs • Barbara Boswell • Kevin Goddard • Muthi…
5 min HRB 87531 AugNearshore x Steve Hawk
352 pp. August 18, 2026, Viking. Fiction. This review first appeared in The Sunday Long Read, August 30, 2026. Jamie Palmer, a lifeguard and…
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Afropop Worldwide publishes no feed, so it cannot appear here. Worth a bookmark anyway.
Kenya
How CS Ogamba has waged war on ghost schools and inflated learner records
CS Ogamba has intensified efforts to eliminate ghost schools and inflated learner records that have exposed public funds to misuse. A nationwide…
Education News · 7 Sep
Nigeria
Beyond the four walls: Why learning must go beyond the classroom
Education is often associated with classrooms, textbooks, teachers and examinations. For generations, the classroom has been the centre of formal learning, providing…
Edugist · 7 SepNigeria
NOUN Bursar Nasiru Marafa Gusau reportedly shot dead in Zamfara
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has announced the death of its Bursar, Mallam Nasiru Marafa Gusau, who was reportedly shot…
EduCeleb · 6 Sep
Geneva
NORRAG’s Strategy (2021-2025)
NORRAG STRATEGY NORRAG’s Strategy (2021-2025) works toward our vision: a world where everyone enjoys the right to equitable, quality, accessible lifelong education…
NORRAG · 7 SepUnited Kingdom
Beyond 2030: UKFIET supports discussion on future of higher education
This blog was written By William C. Smith, Maia Chankseliani and Fatih Aktas. Higher education is often overshadowed in global education debates.…
UKFIET · 24 AugUniversity World News Africa, the best higher-education outlet on the continent, has no feed. Nor do HakiElimu, Africa Education Watch, ESSA or JET, all of which are African-owned and publish well.
The Gold Currency, Trade and Wealth of Medieval Ethiopia
Gold was one of the oldest metals worked by ancient African societies.In…
African History Extra
State Driven Agrarian Development in the Contested Borderlands of Northwestern Ethiopia: The Experience of the Humera State Farm Project, 1975–91
Drawing on an extensive examination of primary sources, this paper considers the…
The Journal of African History
The Century’s Firstborn: Intimate History in the Aftermath of Nineteenth-Century Islamic Revolutions in Central Mali – ERRATUM
History in Africa
South African History Online
The largest free reference archive on South African history: 10,762 biographies, 17,654…
Archive · South Africa
Timbuktu Manuscripts
Over 40,000 digitised manuscript pages on astronomy, jurisprudence, medicine and mathematics, held…
Archive · Mali
The Shape of Unbroken Things/Ce qu’on ne brise pas
Today marked her first day at a new school, where she would be repeating the Form 3 year. Consistently among the top ten students in her…
Comfort Mussa · Bakwa Magazine 6MINEbola and Africa’s Preparedness Dividend: From Crisis to Capability
Africa is facing its 17th Ebola outbreak, and this time the continent is meeting it with the most capable response architecture it has ever assembled. The…
Ahmed Ogwell Ouma · African Arguments 5MINHollyShorts Film Festival 2026: “Woman Land” and “The Unnamed” Reflect on Female Identity and Vulnerability
Woman Land and The Unnamed films focus on women as central figures in their own stories, capable of making independent decisions, defining the trajectories of their…
The Editor · Afrocritik 5MINBefore there is anything to punish: Burkina Faso’s new citizenship question
On July 16, 2026, when addressing the Forces vives in Yagha Province, Burkina Faso’s transitional president Captain Ibrahim Traoré referred to a statistic that seemed to…
ROAPE · Review of African Political Economy 2MINExcerpts: Flora’s Love Colony
Opobo, Notebook IslandIn the beginning was the rafting, too, before the empty ships made of conquest arrived at the shore where Pepple was the king, where…
Salawu Olajide · Olongo Africa
Three artists, Three weeks: ARTTHROB + KRONE Group Artist Residency
ArtThrob · 4 Sep
Afloat, But Not Anchored
Art Index Africa · 26 Jul
GIRMACHEW GETNET Circle – Humans / ‘I Am Because We Are’
Africanah · 28 Aug
Constellations: An interview with Alexander Richards and Igshaan Adams on Peter Clarke’s solo ‘The Departure’.
ArtThrob · 13 Aug
Contemporary And, the most serious of them, publishes no feed and blocks crawlers. It is not here and it should be on your list.
Design
Shaun Beyond: Building Worlds Beyond the Archetype
From Mauritius, the digital artist has spent more than a decade creating images that move between African futurism, surrealism, spirituality and the…
African Digital Art · 6 Sep
Fashion
Is Berlin and Copenhagen the New Frontier for African fashion?
Fruche SS27. Photo via Fruche. If you’ve ever heard the words, “it’s always fashion week somewhere” its probably true. Before the Big…
Africa Fashion Decoded · 4 SepArchitecture
From Questions to Possibilities: Reflections from the Master’s in Southern Urbanism Writing Retreat
The post From Questions to Possibilities: Reflections from the Master’s in Southern Urbanism Writing Retreat appeared first on African Centre for Cities.
African Centre for Cities · 31 Aug
Photography
A Short Break
“Camping by the Lake,” by Ama Benewaa TawiahThis past Wednesday, we published the 200th edition of the newsletter. You can see recent…
Tender Photo · 26 AugFeast Afrique, the best African food-history source there is, publishes no feed. Nor does Contemporary And. Bookmark both.
نواة في دقيقة: كفى مخاتلة، اليوسفي في السجن لأنه أزعج الاستبداد
Nawaat · Arabic and French
Ivory CoastMISE AU POINT DE DÉMISSIONNAIRES DU MGC: Lorsque les rumeurs prennent le pas sur les faits, il devient nécessaire de parler
Connectionivoirienne · French
ZambiaHH consoles Samia over husband’s death
News Diggers!
RwandaEA Universities Rethink Quality as AI Puts Degrees to a New Test
KT Press
DR CongoRDC-Fizi : Kanguli, Masunga et Nakiehele se vident après de nouveaux affrontements entre l'armée et l'AFC/M23
Actualite.cd · French
How PIDG helped 24 Nigerian companies raise $247 million at home
Nigerian companies looking to finance large projects have either had to raise capital abroad and absorb foreign exchange risk in a currency that moves…
TechCabal · 12 min
27 AugScience training helps Tanzanian banana farmers curb virus
Tanzanian researchers team up with journalists to protect banana farmers from the destructive banana bunchy top virus.
SciDev.Net
7 SepNigeria needs 62.5 million more NINs in six months to hit World Bank deadline
Nigeria has spent years trying to solve a basic problem of the digital economy: proving who people are. It now has 117.5 million people…
TechCabal · 11 min
21 AugNigerians turn to faith healers as HIV aid dries up
After US aid cuts disrupted free HIV treatment, some Nigerian patients turn to unproven ‘cures’.
SciDev.Net
7 SepNigeria’s GDP growth is coming from sectors that don’t create enough jobs
This is Follow the Money, our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs, financial institutions, companies, and governments. A…
TechCabal · 15 min
Rest of World does this better than anyone, but it publishes no Africa-only feed, so adding it would have meant adding the whole world.
Here is what the FTSE Russell reclassification means for every investor
Nigeria is going back into the FTSE Russell Frontier Market universe. The opportunity is real—but investors should focus on where…
7 Sep NairametricsPremiumTrust Bank receives Dual Credit Rating Upgrades from Agusto & Co. and DataPro.
PremiumTrust Bank has received dual credit rating upgrades from two of Nigeria’s leading rating agencies, Agusto & Co. and DataPro…
7 Sep MoneywebAfrica needs to be far more deliberate about preparing its SMEs for cross-border trade
With about 1 000 SMEs already engaged, the Absa-DHL partnership is showing how practical preparation and know-how can help turn…
7 Sep African BusinessWhy health is the next frontier for debt swaps
For many years, debt swaps occupied a relatively small corner of development finance. Today, as countries confront tighter budgets, high…
7 Sep BusinessDayDangote tests capital market appetite with $1.6bn refining expansion float
Dangote Petroleum Refinery founder Aliko Dangote is heading to Nigeria’s capital market to raise about $1.6bn, setting the stage for…
7 SepStears no longer publishes, Semafor Africa is email only, and The Africa Report blocks feed readers. African business writing with a feed is scarcer than it should be.
MUBI
Curated arthouse with standing African collections, including African Cinema at Cannes. Seven-day trial, and it works from Nigeria.
₦6,000/mo
kweliTV
Over 900 independent films, documentaries, animation and series across the global Black diaspora, a large share of them…
From $2.99/mo
Africa Direct
Seventy-three short documentaries by African filmmakers, first-person and character-led. No new series since 2024, but the whole run…
Free
Ndani TV
Nigerian web series and short films: Skinny Girl in Transit, Fractured, The House Wife. The shorts strand stopped…
Free
Lagos Studies Association
Full recorded conference panels on Lagos and Nigerian history, urbanism and archives. Over 600 videos across four years.…
Free