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How Ghanaian art writer, Sharon Obuobi, plans to change conversations about African art
Before she started her show, In Studio with Sharon Obuobi, Ghanaian-born art writer and innovator, Sharon Obuobi worked as a founding member of the Modern & Contemporary African Art...
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This is the only African nation ranked among world’s top 50 most competitive countries
The World Economic Forum released the 2018 Global Competitiveness Index, and only one African country was listed in the top 50 most competitive countries globally. The Index, generated using a new...
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8 quotes Mozambique’s first president, Samora Machel, will be remembered for
Before he became Mozambique’s first president, Samora Machel was an anti-colonial freedom fighter who led the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) in the fight for Mozambique’s independence...
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Shock as expose reveals brutal rape of Liberian girls in U.S.-backed centre for victims of sexual exploitation
The world was left aghast when the news that girls at a Liberian centre for vulnerable girls were sexually assaulted and raped by an employee – the very atrocities the centre was set up to protect...
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Witches are free to operate in Guyana after dismissal of colonial laws
Since colonial days, the Guyana government would jail anyone known or accused of practising witchcraft, voodoo and obeah. It is now considering scrapping these laws, saying that they are no longer relevant....
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The sad death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who ruled Haiti with an iron fist in 1804
Known for naming Haiti, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a military leader serving under the leader of the 1791 Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture. There are two contradictory stories of his birth....
