....Joy Muballe , remember how I used to cackle at your football adherence... but you are devoted for the right reasons...anyway today I have switched loyalties from a certain Parisian team to become a Madridista. What does that make me?

(1/2) How do we connect & reconnect with the oceans? Is there space for imagination & creativity in making policy positions towards the seas?

These were some of the Q's discussed with author of The Dragonfly Sea Y. Adhiambo Owuor & Dr Charne Lavery, ahead of World Ocean Day (8 June).

On a rainy day, a group of fish is crossing a road.

Climbing perch fish can live without water for six to ten days in moist conditions, and can breathe atmospheric oxygen.

We Africans need to be more serious about studying history. The 1884 & 1885 meetings were not about Africa. They were about Europeans not fighting each other and using Africa as the carrot to pacify each other. The conference was about Europe. Africa was collateral damage.

When are we going to have an Africa-Africa Summit?

Welcome back Kenya, we have missed you 🤝

#HSBCSVNS | #HSBCSVNS MAD

Kenya returns to the World Rugby Sevens Series for 2025 with the big win over Germany.

#Shujaa #SportpesaNaShujaa #HSBCSVNS #HSBCSVNS MAD

Mopti, Mali

pair of wooden sandals, covered with an ornamented silver sheet with borders made of attached silver drops, and a golden knob for support.

Swahili
19th century, Tanzania
-SMB museum
#randomxt

Tuareg Wedding convoy on the Niger-Algeria border.

📷: Africa Online Museum

Stories that brighten our days.

*PRESS STATEMENT ON JOSHUA CHERUIYOT KIRUI’S REPATRIATION FROM MT. EVEREST*

Following the death of Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui on Mt. Everest on May 22, 2024, the family has made the difficult decision to let his body remain on Mt. Everest.

This decision was made after extensive

intricately carved ivory forks and spoons by Mangbetu artists

part of the 4,000 artifacts and 49 tonnes of cultural material collected by the American Museum of Natural History in northern D.R. Congo
africanhistoryextra.com/p/kingdoms-at-…

Every African country should be studying China’s economic policies from 1990 to 2020.

Africa has a huge demographic advantage, but it won’t last forever.

This is the time for reforms.

Mali 🇲🇱 Had A University in the 1200 AD that taught Astronomy, Geography, medicine, Mathematics and so on....., Home of Mansa Musa,Richest Man in the History of Mankind!!!

Timbuktu in Mali 🇲🇱 is home to one of the World's oldest University, Sankore which had libraries filled

I'm on the side of a POLYCENTRIC world, one that 'postulates a multiplicity of centers in which countries and regions of the South are able to pursue paths of sovereign and popular development, that is, ‘delink’ from the law of value dominated by imperialism.' Paris Yeros

If the holder of a public office, including a political office, directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to law or instructions,the person is liable for any loss arising from that use &shall make good the loss,whether the person remains the holder of the office or not

Finally! African chocolate makers experience gains. In Ghana and Ivory Coast in particular, several small companies are seeing increased demand for their ethically made bars from consumers in Asia, Europe and the US
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

13th-century painting in the church of Debra Maryam Qorqor in Ethiopia depicting a Nubian dignitary wearing the horned crown of Makuria.

in 1338, the Nubian king Siti of Makuria hosted the Ethiopian monk Ēwosṭātēwos
africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note…

my article:

'a brief note on African travel literature in history'

a Swahili document on south-central Africa.

africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-brief-note…