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Cubs belong to two female cheetahs brought from South Africa and Namibia in bid to reintroduce animal to India

Unstoppable Women of Web3 has unveiled the 2024 list of the most inspirational women in the Web3 and AI fields, showcasing the key role female leaders play in moving high technology forward.

For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 the World Bank Group invested US$3.2 billion in education projects benefiting adolescent girls.

Made up of hundreds of discarded toys, household items, broken cables and bits of plastic, Cameroonian artist Malam’s giant head-shaped sculptures are deceptively playful. Invited to the Also Known as Africa contemporary art and design fair (AKAA) in Paris, the artist says his installations are in fact a harsh critique…

As a new documentary illuminates surfing’s African roots, Black people revive their sacred connection to the sport

The Black South African singer defied the odds to become a household name in the US. Then she was cancelled.

Football is a game of passion, and passions can become particularly inflamed when the sport represents larger political struggles. In Nigeria in 1977, an Africa-wide football contest fuelled the ethnic rivalry between the Yoruba and the Igbo people to the point that the military had to intervene. The game was…

He may be the president of a small, landlocked state in central Africa, but Paul Kagame has always had outsize dreams

The endangered African elephant Anna was 49