For the Youth Olympic Games, Senegal has relied heavily on substantial direct public funding with support from its partners.
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Whether the public rallies to defend journalists can depend on whether audiences believe they deserve that support.
Mutual suspicion and prejudice continue to undermine relations between South Africans and African immigrants.
Has romance turned into a marketplace where intimacy is measured through transactions?
Rather than telling a single story, street names preserve several layers of public memory.
Among contemporary African musicologists, Agawu has been one of the most distinctive voices over the past half-century.
Modern styles of architecture can learn from traditional approaches to building.
Digital platforms offer opportunities for African dance influencers to construct their own visions of what it means to be African.
While some creators proudly embrace the label of sex worker, many others reject it outright.
John Iliffe was interested in evidence and interpretation, not theoretical abstraction.
Managing religious affairs in Ethiopia is crucial for national cohesion and broader peacebuilding processes.
Urbanisation is experienced through growing tensions within families over precious yet meagre plots of land.
The vast prayer camps challenge stereotypes of Nigerian cities as chaotic, dysfunctional, and driven by religious tension.
In these spaces, lifelong relationships can be formed through the love of cinema.
Royal relics in Madagascar confer legitimacy on rulers.
English was imposed as Nigeria’s official language, but the British had no way of controlling what people did with it.
Zed Beats artists aren’t known for political songs, but they’ve become so popular that they’re used to mobilise voters during elections.
Not even the #MeToo movement and a reckoning with sexual abuse could rupture the sound-proof walls of South African classical music.
The real ‘secret’ of their success lies in a complex network of social mobility and connection with local communities.
Recognising African agency in colonised territories allows us to rethink borders and revise history.
One of west Africa’s most popular action films speaks to Nigeria’s pressing security issues.
Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
To secure health and wealth, many people combine elements from different religious traditions. One such movement is Chrislam.
Buddhist meditation and Pentecostal speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. But not to the brain.
New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.