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11/04/2023

This graphic uses the latest IMF projections to rank the world's top 20 fastest growing economies for 2024.

11/04/2023

10 out of the 20 fastest growing economies of the world are in Africa according to IMF projections.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-fastest-growing-economies-in-2024/

L-R: AfDB President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Niale Kaba, Minister of Planning and Development of Côte d'Ivoire, and Prof. Kevin Urama, Acting Chief Economist and Vice President at AfDB, at the Abidjan launch of the 2023 Africa's Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook

10/17/2023

The work by the Ethiopian-American artist was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong for $9.32m with fees

12/07/2021

New African magazine features Artists to watch whose selected works were on display at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 2021. Among those a 2020 BU MFA graduate Hanna Yilma Godine. Congrats to all! https://www.1-54.com/london/artists/
https://www.1-54.com/blog/1-54-london-2021-collectors-picks-nish-mccree/

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07/02/2021

A tribute to the late Kenneth Kaunda, founding president of Zambia & inaugural African President-in-Residence at BU’s Balfour African Presidential Archives and Research Center back in 2002.

Democratic statesman had strong ties to BU

12/19/2020

https://www.csis.org/features/africa-matters-us-cities

Africa matters to U.S. cities. Over the past few decades, the continent has shaped the wealth, foreign policy profile, academic success, and cultural life of America’s major cities. The Hometown Argument The national security pitch about why Africa matters to the United States tends to fall on dea...

10/29/2020

https://brittlepaper.com/2020/10/free-download-of-africanfuturism-an-anthology-stories-by-nnedi-okorafor-tl-huchu-dilman-dila-rafeeat-aliyu-tlotlo-tsamaase-mame-bougouma-diene-mazi-nwonwu-and-derek-lubangakene/?fbclid=IwAR3HLIY1YE_HLIm0otih3dzUk9zSvMebuXrwHGSRwgGK3zjVNyQQmKhBH5w

Download for free: Africanfuturism-An Anthology edited by Wole Talabi In celebration of our 10-year anniversary, we bring you a collection of Africanfuturist stories. Africanfuturism is a term coined by Nigerian sci-fi/fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor to describe science fiction that is rooted in th

10/21/2020

https://brittlepaper.com/2020/10/free-download-of-africanfuturism-an-anthology-stories-by-nnedi-okorafor-tl-huchu-dilman-dila-rafeeat-aliyu-tlotlo-tsamaase-mame-bougouma-diene-mazi-nwonwu-and-derek-lubangakene/?fbclid=IwAR3r1xuBSE2rrf2PFg_fjPJ8FcpWywJH-DwK-zoUZqGGKP7akNkNI-_OwP0

Download for free: Africanfuturism-An Anthology edited by Wole Talabi In celebration of our 10-year anniversary, we bring you a collection of Africanfuturist stories. Africanfuturism is a term coined by Nigerian sci-fi/fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor to describe science fiction that is rooted in th

09/03/2020

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/02/kenya-2022-elections-already-begun-cycle-violence-chris-msando/

The president doesn’t have a clear chosen successor, and the country could already be caught in another cycle of electoral violence.