The Cyber Scramble For Africa By Silicon Valley Behemoths – Google and Facebook
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email The big guns of Silicon Valley, Google and Facebook, are in a race to bring high-speed broadband to Africa via submarine cables. Although Google and Facebook abandoned in late September their joint project for a submarine communications cable between the United States and […]
Does Africa Matter ethically In The Business of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Mary Carman & Benjamin Rosman Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology and motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthcare. But concerns have emerged about the […]
The Man Who Built The Biggest Photo Library In Africa
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Whitney Johnson “It was hard to find a single photography book in Ghana,” Paul Ninson (pictured above) told me when we met at the International Center of Photography, where he was a student before the pandemic. He also told me what a […]
The Senegalese Who Recently Won France’s Most Prestigious Literary Honors
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Caroline D. Laurent Sarr is the youngest winner since 1976 and the first from sub-Saharan Africa. Critics have been raving about The Most Secret Memory of Men, his novel about a young Senegalese writer living in Paris. The jury made a unanimous […]
Apartheid South Africa: The Confessions Of A Hit-man
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email By Keith Gottschalk A raft of confessions have been published in the past three decades chronicling the stories of white men in uniform who plied their trade as apartheid heavies and enforcers. The brutality they dispensed – killings, assassinations, torture, beatings – also […]