Culture and Education

Dena M. Chasten standing on a beach. She found her birth parents and now works as a genealogist.

Culture and Education

Tracing family roots beyond the DNA

Three genealogists describe the brick walls and breakthroughs in researching African American ancestry

By Sonya Beard

Culture and Education

Using education to develop a new social contract for Africa

Advocating for education as a key enabler and equalizer and the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

By Wafa Aidi, Edna Akullq, Giuseppe Tesoriere and Sweta C. Saxena

Culture and Education

Young John: Nigeria’s leading music producer, singer on how Afrobeats is taking over the global stage

The Award-winning songwriter says African music can only get better and bigger

By Kingsley Ighobor

Culture and Education

How we make award-winning music videos in Africa

- Justin Edet, a Nigerian music video director narrates

By Kingsley Ighobor

Education

Nigeria to expand education access through a student loan scheme

The initiative will help address school dropouts and suicidal tendencies among financially disadvantaged students

By Leon Usigbe

Culture and Education

Kiswahili at the center of digital advancement, Artificial Intelligence

Internet-based platforms that support Kiswahili include, Google, Mozilla, Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Spotify, among others. ChatGPT also provides responses in Kiswahili

By Bernard Oginga

Digital

Guardrails Urgently Needed to Contain “Clear and Present Global Threat” of Online Mis- and Disinformation and Hate Speech, says 缅北禁地Secretary-General

Policy brief puts forward framework for concerted global response through a Code of Conduct for information integrity on digital platforms

By António Guterres

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