Technology
Africa's push for Digital Sovereignty
Africa is pushing to control its own data, through shared frameworks, local AI models, education programs, and tighter regulation, to stop feeding foreign AI and start building its own.
African Progress
Africa's Traffic Problem Isn't Traffic
Traffic congestion across African cities strips workers, traders, and families of hours, income, and time together, not because of too many cars but because homes, jobs, and services are built too far apart, making it a planning failure that no app or highway alone can fix.
Technology
Women Leading Africa's Tech
A major shift is currently underway as women tech builders pivot away from elite software ecosystems to intentionally design products for this informal consumer base.
Entertainment
Artificial Intelligence: A Threat to Africa's Music Industry
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence in music production has fundamentally transformed creative workflows and redefined audience interaction with music. As AI becomes increasingly embedded in mainstream media and daily life, it has sparked intense debate across the entertainment sector.
Agriculture
Females in Africa's Agricultural Spaces
Africa has a huge opportunity to make agriculture its economic driver. However, the potential for this is far from being made exhaustive use of, one reason being that women face considerable difficulties in their economic activities.
African Progress
Traffic Congestion: A Solvable Problem in African Cities?
For many Africans, traffic has become so routine that it is accepted as part of everyday life. We joke about leaving home three hours early. Africa's growing cities need integrated transport strategies that combine reliable public transport, smart technology, stronger traffic law enforcement...
African Progress
Africa Is Demanding Recompense for Slavery
The global conversation on reparations has been trapped between two narratives. To some, it represent a moral obligation owed to the descendants of slavery & colonialism. To some, it is viewed as an impractical attempt to assign responsibility for historical crimes to contemporary societies.
Finance and Investment
Africa’s Women Drive The Economy. Why is Investment Access a challenge?
Women in African entrepreneurship are not a new story. African women have been trading, farming, selling, building, and leading businesses for centuries. What is new, in 2026, is the scale and the growing recognition that if Africa wants to build...
African Progress
Africa’s Schools Are Teaching Yesterday’s Skills for Tomorrow’s Economy
The structural failure of African education lies in its worship of the certificate over competence, where universities function as factories for a "paper chase" that prioritizes securing a degree regardless of its market utility.
Governance
The Evolution of the Ballot: Shifting from Independence Ideals to the Crisis of Modern African Governance
Africa’s ballot box is losing its liberatory power, morphing into a tool for regime survival. From Ethiopia’s exclusionary June 2026 polls to Guinea’s junta-led “transition,” elections are increasingly engineered to entrench elites. The cost is capital flight, fractured trust, and democratic erosion
Events and Conferences
Africa's Time, Africa's Terms: Learning for Sovereignty, Strength and Solidarity
Moving completely away from the patronising language of international aid and boilerplate corporate philanthropy, the assembly rallied around a defensive, highly strategic manifesto: "Africa’s Time, Africa’s Terms: Learning for Sovereignty, Strength, and Solidarity."
African Progress
Africa's Infrastructure Crisis Is Also a People Problem
There is a story that does not get told: like what citizens do, or fail to do, in the spaces that governance, however broken, cannot fully reach. That story is less comfortable. It implicates people who are not in power, who do not control ministries, sign oil contracts, or command police forces.