By Kay Musonda, Modern Ghana ”Africa is currently experiencing another form of slavery through Pentecostalism. We are now mentally lazy and our ability to reason scientifically has been incapacitated. The African pastor won’t talk about Usain Bolt or Serena Williams. The African Pastor won’t talk about Steve Jobs or the young people in Silicon Valley reshaping…
By Messenger Africa A container ship in the distance, seen from the shore of Berbera port, Somaliland. By Jason Patinkin for The Messenger With a sea breeze to his back, Ali Farah Negeye greets the lunch crowd at the Al Xayat restaurant in the Somaliland port city of Berbera. For the last fifteen years, he’s…
BY ELISSA MILLE NewsWeek Egypt President el-Sisi Says There is “No Doubt” that Donald Trump Would Make A Strong Leader Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi visits the White House to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. El-Sissi’s first visit to the White House is important for U.S.-Egypt relations. Both leaders have repeatedly expressed admiration for each…
Kulturhusetstadsteatern Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas Human Rights Film Festival Klarabiografen A documentary thriller investigating the murky concept of ‘land grabbing,’ 15:00 to 15:30 Q & A with director Joakim Demmer. Read more about Director Demmer’s inspiration for the film . Around the globe, there is a massive commercial rush for farmland – the new…
The New Yorker By Alexis Okeowo The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief provides support to clinics like the one above, in South Africa. President Trump’s team has questioned whether such programs should continue.PHOTOGRAPH BY FOTO24 / GALLO IMAGES / GETTY The Trump Administration’s budget proposal for next year includes drastic cuts to a myriad…
Ethereum: The not-Bitcoin cryptocurrency that could help replace Uber BY EMMA HINCHLIFFE Mashable 2017 has been a big year for Bitcoin: its highest price ever, a major disappointment from the SEC for No. 1 Bitcoin fans the Winkelvoss twins, and, for a moment, a value higher than gold. But another cryptocurrency has been quietly growing…
Contending Modernities Photo Credit: Dr Chris Okafor. https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/drchrisokafor At the core of my ongoing study of Pentecostal pastors and changing forms of authority in Africa are two related premises. First, due to a variety of factors, partly socio-economic, but also cultural as well as political, the landscape of authority across a majority of African states…
Africa Image copyrightAFP The African Union hopes .africa will create a unique online identity for the continent Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union. AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when Africa “got [its]…
This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully zoomable version here.) (Update: Click on the image below to arrive at a bigger version.) This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and…
Associated Press Police officers secure the perimeter at the scene of a garbage landslide, as excavators aid rescue efforts, on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, March 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Elias Meseret) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A mountain of trash gave way in a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s…