Bwakali

The following year, 2018, proved to be a pivotal year for Traore. He was promoted to Captain and thrust into a complex and volatile situation when he joined the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (French: Mission...

They told us diamonds are forever, but the story is changing fast. The sparkle that once came only from deep African mines is now being born in humming laboratories. This is not just a shift in fashion. It is...

Bobi Wine! Julius Malema! Inspirational figures, no doubt. But here's a crazy thought: what if they rendered themselves irrelevant by mentoring and elevating multiple leaders in their movements? This would ensure that they stop being the singular figureheads and...

I can still hear the echo of the hammer on steel, the hiss of steam engines cutting through the tropical silence, the ghosts of a railway that changed East Africa forever. The Uganda Railway was not just a transport...

  I watched that Lusaka handshake and felt the weight of history. President Hakainde Hichilema stood beside Sheikh Mansour bin Jabor bin Jassim Al Thani as Al Mansour Holdings announced nineteen billion dollars for Zambia. The headline promise is 1.5...

I grew up watching the board, not just the pieces. In Africa, we were often told to celebrate when one of our pawns reached the eighth rank and became a queen. Yet in the real game that shaped our...

I grew up knowing that on the Swahili coast, real conversations begin with a tiny cup. We call it kahawa tungu. Many elders also say kahawa chungu. Either way, it is the same thing: strong, unsweetened, cardamom-kissed coffee that...

I keep coming back to a single graph. It shows the number of Africans living on less than $2.15 a day. More than 460 million people. That is one in three Africans. And yet this is the same continent...

Israel’s reopening of its embassy in Lusaka after more than half a century is more than a diplomatic ribbon-cutting. It is a signal that Jerusalem is steadily rebuilding a footprint across Africa that has risen and fallen since the...

I want to tell you a story about Africa’s money, but not the kind of money that Africans count in markets or stash in mobile wallets. This story is about the money that slips offshore, the money siphoned up...