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Arts & Culture

This beat celebrates Africa’s rich culture, including language, music, food, fashion, visual art, performing arts, and the creative industry.

One of Africa No Filter's handbooks challenges stereotypical news about Africa, and offers storytellers a guide to better storytelling.
Arts & Culture

Changing the narrative: Using AI tools to tell the African story

Digitalization Africa No Filter is about shifting entrenched narratives and challenging pervasive stereotypes about the continent.
A concert.
Arts & Culture

Propelled by digital technology, African urban music is on a global journey

Digitalization From captivating rhythms to technological innovations, streaming platforms are revolutionizing the African music industry.
Lagos Island interchange bridge Nigeria.
Arts & Culture

Telling Africa’s story through drone photography

Africa youth A young photographer uses drones to capture and showcase Africa's beauty and diversity, challenging stereotypes and fostering cultural understanding
Arts
Arts & Culture

The Manor: A home for Africa's greatest stories

Celebrating authentic African narratives through visual artistry and digital innovation, empowering diverse voices across the continent

Editor Picks

Dena M. Chasten standing on a beach. She found her birth parents and now works as a genealogist.
Arts & Culture

Tracing family roots beyond the DNA

A large group of African leaders on stage at the AU Assembly of the Union in February 2022.
Arts & Culture

Renewed push for use of Kiswahili by AU and UNESCO

Arts & Culture

Africa Renewal Podcast launches on Africa Podcast Day, 12 February

Arts & Culture

Swahili gaining popularity globally

Diallo Sumbry

Revolutionist returnees: Fulfilling dreams, finding freedom

GenealogyAfrican Americans have a long history of going back to the motherland.
Courtesy of Kennedy S. Johnson

Cultural custodian: Separating Africa’s myth from its reality

GenealogyAncestryReclaiming Roots: The Journey of an African American Queen's Quest to Unearth Heritage, Identity, and Connection.
A woman and a woman.

Partners in time: Reconnecting African Americans with their tribes of origin

GenealogyAncestryGeneticist Rick Kittles and Gina Page helping families put together missing pieces of their heritage through African Ancestry.
A man and a woman.

Following in Pelé’s footsteps, Vinícius Junior appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

UNESCOEmpowering Youth: Vinícius Junior's Commitment to Education Equality and Social Justice.
Dena M. Chasten standing on a beach. She found her birth parents and now works as a genealogist.

Tracing family roots beyond the DNA

GenealogyThree genealogists describe the brick walls and breakthroughs in researching African American ancestry
Young students.

Using education to develop a new social contract for Africa

EducationAdvocating for education as a key enabler and equalizer and the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world
Award-winning Ghanaian teacher Ebenezer Otoo.

We need to invest in education

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- Says award-winning Ghanaian teacher Ebenezer Otoo, ahead of the UN’s Transforming Education Summit in September 2022

Over 130 countries agree to reboot their education systems

Educationeducation systems

UN Secretary-General issues call to action and vision for way forward at UN Summit

Students of the Africa Leadership University School of Business graduate in Kigali.

Preparing young Africans for jobs of the future

EducationTransforming Education Summit

Adequate education financing, updated curricula and accelerated e-learning will help develop skills to meet future workforce demands

Rebecca Onumah

Teachers are agents of change

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— says award-winning Ghanaian teacher Rebecca Onumah, ahead of the UN’s Transforming Education Summit in September 2022.

Sam Quansah, the 2021 ‘Overall Best Male Teacher’

Effective teaching requires adequate resources

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— says Sam Quansah, the 2021 ‘Overall Best Male Teacher’ in the Awutu Senya District, in Ghana’s Central Region.

Africa’s future depends on its children’s foundational learning today

Educationfoundational learning

There is a need for large-scale support to enable education systems to recover