Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018) was a Nigerian scholar and the first woman to earn a PhD in philosophy in her country. She not only ...

Introduction: The prismatic nature of public intellectualism -- Chapter 1. Recalibrating the deep history of intellectual thought in the KwaZulu-Natal region -- Chapter 2. Elijah Makiwane and early ...

Addis Abeba, August 27/2021 - We write this letter as concerned African intellectuals on the continent and in the Diaspora. Many of us have dedicated our professional lives to understanding the causes ...

When South African opposition leader Julius Malema addressed the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, the apex body of Nigerian lawyers, last month, he minced no words about what ...

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Ousmane Sembene of Senegal was a novelist, film-maker and a beacon of hope and resistance to many across the continent of Africa. He died last weekend at the age of 84. Odile Cazenave, associate ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism. By Adam Nossiter Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American ...

Print Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. Africa remains poorly understood by the rest of the world and frequently distorted in global conversations, whether ...

“Africa’s problem is not that it is traditional; it is that it has failed to modernise its traditions.” – Ali A. Mazrui. Thirty years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa finds itself trapped in ...

(MENAFN- News.Africa-Wire) HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 3, 2026 -- The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) () yesterday officially launched its 50th Anniversary year celebrations ...

Morocco ranked first in Africa for intellectual capital and innovation in the 2025 Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index, placing 84th worldwide out of 192 countries, according to the report’s ...

Mohamed Jameel Hamid and Alicia van der Walt of Adams & Adams unpack the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, explain its impact on intellectual property, and outline practical strategies ...