Cash transfers For Refugees In Kenya And Related Risks

AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. Cash transfers allow refugees to buy goods from shops in the settlement. Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/ LightRocket via Getty I By Cory Rodgers, Jade Siu & Oliver Sterck Humanitarian organizations – such as the World Food Programme (WFP) – are increasingly using cash transfers […]

Nile Archaeological site Finds Another Testament To Prehistoric Nubian Civilization

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Along its length, the Nile has six cataracts – rocky places with shallow, fast-moving water. Tombos is at the Third Cataract. Michele R. Buzon, CC BY-ND By Michele R. Buzon Circular mounds of rocks dot the desert landscape at the archaeological site of Tombos in […]

Is Nigeria’s Obasanjo Selfserving Or Another Nelson Mandela?

AFRICA THOUGHT – News features, commentaries, analyses, interviews & Op-ed. Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria. Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images By Sheriff Folarin Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former President, turned 85 on March 5, 2022. His influence across the African continent ranks next to that of Nelson Mandela. What are truly his legacies? Obasanjo […]

Congolese Artist Talks At UCLA April 27

DIASPORA NEWS From Africa, The Americas, Caribbean & the rest of the world. Faustin Linyekula is at UCLA’s South Campus April 27 to give talks in association with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Congo Basin Institute. Faustin Linyekula in his own words:“I’m known as a dancer, choreographer, but I call myself a […]

Google-Funded African Landing Project Equiano’s In Togo

AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. Remember Equiano? Not Loon. Not Taara. Equiano, the Google-funded project which wants to run leagues of cabling that would help connect Europe to Africa. Once complete, Equiano will start in western Europe and run along the West Coast of Africa, between Portugal and South Africa, […]

South African Airways (SAA) Back In The Air With A New Equity Partner

AFRICA INC. – Rising economies, start-ups, and Black wealth, etc. It is now well known that South Africa’s flagship airline, South African Airways (SAA) has taken back to the skies once again. Thanks to an agreement for the sale of 51% of SAA to strategic equity partner, Takatso Consortium. The signing took place after eight […]