Photo by Isaac Kasamani via AFP/Getty Images Article by David Peisner, Rolling Stone When Bobi Wine was 26, he bought a brand-new Cadillac Escalade with spinning 24-inch rims. He was already a major star in Uganda, and the car, he says, was the first Escalade sold in all...
Shutterstock Article by Aylin Woodward, via Business Insider A group of researchers say they've pinpointed the ancestral homeland of all humans alive today: modern-day Botswana. In a new study published in the journal Nature, scientists analyzed mitochondrial DNA — genetic information that gets passed down the female line —...
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Graphic by Matt Withers/The Economist Article via Economist.com The first great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the “scramble”, was when 19th-century European colonists carved up the continent and seized Africans’ land. The second was during the cold war, when East and West vied for the allegiance of...
Photo by Reuters Article by Bekele Atoma, via BBC Ethiopian members of parliament have elected Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's first female president. Ms Sahle-Work is an experienced diplomat who has now become Africa's only female head of state. Her election to the ceremonial position comes a week after...
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Article by Alexander Cornwell, via Reuters Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace agreement in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the second peace deal reached since July between the once warring African countries. The Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders signed a “joint declaration of...