Rwanda’s Mara Group launched two smartphones on Monday, describing them as the first “Made in Africa” models and giving a boost to the country’s ambitions to become a regional technology hub.
The Mara X and Mara Z will use Google’s...
Africa has the highest number of Female the world, a new study by UK’s Intellectual Property Office has revealed.
The research titled: ‘An analysis of female inventorship’, found that the highest share of female inventors are in Africa.
The study found...
New World Wealth and AfrAsia Bank have published the latest African Wealth Report, showing the levels of wealth of various African nations at the end of 2018.
According to the 2019 Africa Wealth Report produced by New World Wealth and...
Hidden for 21 years in a Dutch flat, an 18th Century Ethiopian crown finally heads home.
The crown was stolen from the East African country dubbed the horn of Africa, which is a rugged, landlocked split country split by the...
Meet Saint Bakhita, The Sudanese Slave Who was made a Catholic Saint in 1992
Saint Josephine Bakhita was born around 1869 in Darfur, Sudan. She was captured by slave-traders at the age of nine, forcibly converted to Islam and sold...
An ancient golden coffin worth $4 million, which is believed to have been looted from Egypt and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York City, has been returned to its home in a ceremony...
About one-third of African students studying in the U.S. are Nigerians, an official said on Wednesday. The Cultural Affairs Officer of the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, Malia Heroux, made this known during an education fair for Nigerian students seeking...
South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has just published the 9th edition of its “Where to invest in Africa” report which ranks the most attractive destinations for investment on the continent in 2020.
While the most attractive economies remain broadly...
The Mundari people are a small ethnic group of South Sudan and one of the Nilotic peoples.
The group like the Fulani tribes, are very cattle-oriented: cattle serves as food, a form of currency and a mark of status. Marriages...
Nigerian PhD student Zahrah Ibrahim has landed a prestigious engineering award in Scotland.
Zahrah's impeccable engineering efforts were recognized by the University of Aberdeen School of Engineering.
In a post on Facebook, the university said, "The School of Engineering would like...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
