Browsing: Africa

The African Development Bank Group’s Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, has said that Africa in its journey to renewable energy, stands a chance to benefit from the expertise of Austria—a country largely powered from renewable sources. Akin-Olugbade made this known in a statement published on the bank’s website on […]

Africa's attempt to secure a spot at the Paris Olympics during the qualifiers held in Busto-Arsizio, Italy ended on a negative note with all 68 boxers failing to earn one of the 49 available slots in the first World Olympic Qualification tournament, which ended on Tuesday. By Monday, only three female African boxers were left […]

As a rule, huge organizations move sluggishly, bogged down in democratic decision-making processes and bureaucratic policies. Ebola, on the other hand, moves fast. People become desperately sick and contagious within a few weeks of infection. By the time international agencies effectively responded to the ongoing Ebola outbreak, it had spiraled out of control in West […]

To explain her motivations as a writer, Anna Badkhen quotes the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert: “you have little time you must give testimony.” Badkhen recently stopped by the Nautilus office to sit for an interview and take us behind the scenes of “The Men Who Planted Trees,” her cover story for the Spring 2014 Nautilus […]

Seven hundred years ago, Timbuktu was a dream destination for scholars, traders, and religious men. At the southern edge of the Sahara desert in what is now Mali, travelers from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt, and Morocco met in the bygone metropolis to exchange gold, salt, and ideas. According to a description of Timbuktu in […]

The Himba bushmen who inhabit the Namibian grasslands—a 1,200-mile-long swath of land running from Angola into South Africa—have come up with different stories over the years to explain the unusual circular bare patches, called “fairy circles,” dotted throughout the grassy expanse. These reddish-hued circles, sometimes several feet in diameter, are dubbed “footprints of the gods,” […]

What $347.98 and $1.23 have in common, or why we should be embarrassed to even worry about “the recession” – a book about the global food economy.