Home-schooling around the world: How have we coped?
When Covid-19 shut schools across the world, few imagined that more than a year later millions of children would still be stuck at home.
And...
Nigeria’s Efik queen wants to take royal meetings online
In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani reflects on the role of traditional rulers in the...
The women fighting South Africa’s ‘infodemic’
In South Africa, a small group of volunteers is waging an online battle against Covid-19 and vaccine misinformation. Much of it comes from abroad,...
Hunting rare birds in Pakistan to feed the sex drive of princes
In 1983, two army officers stopped at a car rental office in Pasni, a small coastal town in south-west Pakistan.
One of them asked the...
Uganda climate change: The people under threat from a melting glacier
Ronah Masika remembers when she could still see the snowy caps of the Rwenzori mountains, a Unesco World Heritage site on the border between...
