Trying to weather the storm Amid worsening drought and crop failure, Africans are adjusting their lives and habits to climate change. Check out Afrobarometer’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent: https://bit.ly/202_TC image
Two DJs played a 24-hour set in an unfinished arts centre in Kampala — not for clout, but to help build it. Locals danced, kids joined in, and their livestreamed gig raised money to get the job done. As DJ Kampire puts it, "The only antidote to despair is to do something."
A 24-hour rave to build Uganda’s first contemporary art centre
‘The antidote to despair is to do something. And to do it with your friends and community.’
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.
Lilongwe, and how we hold the space we make
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lilongwe with James Jamu.
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
Addis, alive and unrelenting
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
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All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 200 of The Continent. In an exclusive investigation, reporters went undercover to expose how Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, helped rig Mozambique’s election. Get your copy of this week's edition here: https://bit.ly/200_TC image
Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image on the world stage. It’s hurting feelings in Cairo.
Out of Egypt: Art flows where the money goes
Arab artists are leaning east towards the Gulf states, which are pouring billions of dollars into culture to push past their ‘petrostate’ image...
A Nairobi court this week sentenced four convicted ant smugglers from Belgium, Vietnam and Kenya to each pay a $7,700 fine, or spend one year in jail, for attempting to smuggle 5,440 Giant African Harvester Queen Ants out of the country.
Don’t go putting our ants in your pants
It doesn’t matter how Belgian you are, you can’t have any more African colonies.
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