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Feminist or figurehead?
Of 54 countries in Africa, just two are led by women. Is it reasonable to expect them to champion feminist reforms?
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Tribeca lets the light in
As the world re-battens its hatches, the festival is keeping a window open.
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Hustle up high or dance on the downlow?
The Lagos rave scene is at a crossroads between its queer roots and the tantalising profits of mainstream appeal.
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Desert distortion: the modern shape of Amazigh music
A new generation of musicians in southeastern Morocco is deftly bridging the past and present without diminishing either.
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Mayfair, where peace is woven of people, place and purpose
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Mayfair with Delwyn Verasamy.
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Make Egypt Pharaonic Again
A growing movement would have you know: True Egypt is not African, Arab or Muslim.
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June 2025

Child abductions raise alarm in Cabo Delgado
Restive gas-rich Cabo Delgado in the country's north has seen a rise in the kidnapping of children
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Sexual violence added to brutal crackdown on Nairobi dissent
Protesters thought they’d won change a year ago. Little has happened, so they took to the streets again. To be met with bullets, barbed wire and rape.
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How to fund African development – and how not to
Aid is dead. Grandma is not. But taking her pension to build a road might kill her.
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Review: Madam President to the rescue
When calamity comes for world leaders, only Viola Davis can save us from terrorists.
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Bridging the Zambezi
Kazungula is renowned as one of Africa’s most efficient border crossings. Its shiny new bridge spans the river beneath it – and ushers in generational…
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Photo Essay: Life in art, art in refuge
Ammar Yassir follows Sudanese artists in exile in Uganda.
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