In the space of a month, South Africa has watched mobs pull suspected foreigners from market stalls, march on factories to demand their sacking, and leave migrants dead in a Mossel Bay settlement. Almost all of it has been Black South Africans turning on Black African migrants. The attacks are building toward June 30, the
Secondhand clothing from the West has destroyed Africa’s textile industry, and this outcome is far from accidental. Decades after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s controversial programs weakened Africa’s manufacturing capacity, and after the secondhand clothing battle between East African nations and the United States, the continent now stands exactly where Western powers
Kenyan journalist and founder of the Africa Leadership and Dialogue Institute, Julie Gichuru says the recolonisation of Africa is already underway. She left a senior role at Mastercard foundation because she could see what was coming. Or more precisely, what had already arrived. She traces it from Muammar Gaddafi’s assassination to foreign military bases, captured
The Dangote Refinery in Nigeria has done what decades of African energy policy failed to deliver. For decades, a continent sitting on some of the world’s largest crude oil reserves has been refining the product abroad. It’s priced in someone else’s currency, arriving on someone else’s schedule. That arrangement is finally cracking. Takeaways In March
Malik Afegbua, a Nigerian artist and filmmaker using AI to preserve African stories, knows exactly what disappears when an African elder dies. Not just a person passes, what would also go with him or her include: a genealogy, a language, a medicinal practice, a war account, an entire way of understanding the world. He tells
Mainstack, organizers of the Moment 2026, Africa’s largest convergence of digital creators and entrepreneurs, has announced that public voting has closed for ‘The Moment Awards‘, the third leg of the three-day event. As contained in a statement released on Thursday, 156,972 verified votes were received across 14 voting award categories. Submissions poured in from fans
The Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IKEDC) has asked its customers to submit their identification details on or before February 20, 2026, warning that those who fail to comply risk possible service suspension. In a public notice issued on Wednesday, the electricity distribution company said the directive is in line with the Nigeria Tax Law (2025),
Khabane Lame, popularly known as Khaby Lame, was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000. He was just a year old when his parents relocated the family to Italy in search of greener pastures, but the grass was not as green in Europe as they thought. Khaby grew up with his siblings in public housing near
OpenAI says it will remove GPT-4o and three other older models from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026, as it shifts more users to its newer GPT-5.2 experience. The change affects model options inside ChatGPT, not the company’s developer API. In its January 29 announcement, OpenAI said GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini will be
Nigeria’s industrial goods counters had a strong 2025 on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, with the NGX Industrial Goods Index climbing 58.91% to finish as the market’s third-best performing sector. The index moved from 3,572.2 to 5,676.5, beating the NGX All-Share Index return of 51.19%. The sector’s hottest stretch was mid-year – July rose 34.28%, Q3