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Nigeria’s film industry: a potential gold mine?

11 Apr 2013

As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa’s largest distributor of Nigerian movies, and has raked in over $8 million since...

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Reconstructive surgery brings hope to survivors of genital cutting

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African schools keep an eye on the prize

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With sharp increases in enrolment in a number of African countries, teachers often must face over-...

‘Green economy’: empty rhetoric or pathway to future?

15 Aug 2012

Solar panels in Mali: More African countries are moving towards use of clean energy sources....

Rio summit keeps African hopes alive

15 Aug 2012

Tree nursery in Ghana: Participants at the Rio summit pledged to plant 100 million trees by 2017....

Northern Mali’s ‘city of saints’ suffers rebel fury

15 Aug 2012

Djinguereber mosque in Timbuktu, Mali: Rebel forces have destroyed some of the mosque’s mausoleums...

Building peace from the ground up

15 Aug 2012

Voters queue up for a referendum on a new constitution in Kenya in 2010: Activists mobilized in...

Is democracy under threat in West Africa?

15 Aug 2012

"No more coups in Africa," declare demonstrators in Bamako, Mali, during a visit by a delegation...

Looking back after 25 years

15 Apr 2012

Salim Lone, who edited Africa Recovery during its first decade, looks back at the magazine’s early...

Africa Renewal at 25: keeping up with a dynamic continent

15 Apr 2012

Africa Renewal then and now: The first issue of Africa Recovery, and the first colour edition of...

Bid to end subsidy stirs protest in Nigeria

15 Apr 2012

With consumer prices already high, many Nigerians protested when the government abruptly announced...