Faith Nyasuguta At the beginning of this month, African ministers adopted the protocol that wards off trading second-hand clothes across the continent under the preferences of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The resolution was made during the second Ministerial Retreat of the Council of Ministers on the AfCFTA, held in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Saturday June 3, Burna Boy played to a sold-out crowd at the London Stadium making him not only the first African artist to headline a UK stadium but also selling out in the process. About 80,000 fans watched the Nigerian star’s sellout show with a setlist spanning his decade-long career, from early […]
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Faith Nyasuguta In many nations and for decades, members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. It was not until recently that the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda became one of the first Caribbean nations to give Rastafari official sacramental authorization to grow […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Fifty-four Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has said, in one of the worst recent attacks by al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country. “We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers, including a commander,” Museveni said in a Twitter post […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Tunisian President Kais Saied has proposed the introduction of additional taxes targeting the wealthiest to enable the state to do without a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose “diktats” he rejects. Mr Saied explained on receiving the head of government Najla Bouden that the system of subsidies for basic products currently […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The parliament of Zimbabwe has given a nod to a controversial bill set to punish citizens for “unpatriotic acts”, among them imposing heavy fines or even the death penalty on them. According to critics, it is a dark day for democracy. The so-called patriot clause of the Criminal Act targets those who harm […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said “”No one will make us move,” in response to threats of sanctions from some Western countries since he signed into law the “Anti-Homosexuality Law 2023″, considered to be one of the harshest in the world. “The NRM (National Resistance Movement, the ruling party) has never had two […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya has marked its 60th birthday today (Thursday) with over 60 percent of her economy mortgaged to foreign and domestic creditors. Despite its life expectancy doubling to about 65 years, just a small percentage of the population shares in the spoils of its economic might in the region. In 1963, on June 1st, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigerian Afrobeats star Wizkid has contributed to the soundtrack of the upcoming Marvel film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. This has been disclosed by American producer Metro Boomin, who is behind the project. “Wizkid is confirmed for the @SpiderVerse(link is external) soundtrack available everywhere [from] 2 June,” Metro Boomin shared on Twitter this week. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta One of Africa’s most prolific writers , playwrights, and feminists, Ama Ata Aidoo, has passed away, as revealed by her family in the early hours of Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The respected writer, popular for her exceptional literary contributions and activism, succumbed to a brief illness. In a statement issued on Wednesday, her […]
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