Long before Western scientists claimed the first fossil "discoveries" in southern Africa, Indigenous communities had already developed their own explanations for the ancient bones scattered across the region. Newly examined missionary diaries are prompting scientists to reassess how that early knowledge was recorded — and who took credit for it.

Military strikes on Iran are rattling global markets, raising concerns that African countries could soon face mounting cost pressures across key sectors. Could this rapidly developing crisis redefine the continent's economic landscape?

Across Africa, a notable economic shift is emerging as Nigeria moves into the halal industry. Rooted in faith and ethical standards, the development is positioning the continent to tap into growing global demand for halal products and services, opening new opportunities for trade, investment, and economic growth.

For decades, Africa's development story has been told largely through the lens of quantitative metrics—economic indicators, human development indices, donor disbursement figures, and performance dashboards designed to satisfy Western benchmarks and reporting standards. But now this framing is changing as policymakers call for a paradigm shift.

Amid the clatter of research tools in a busy lab at a South African medical university, a young researcher's determination to fight diseases that devastate women's health has yielded a historic result: the institution's first-ever patent.

President John Mahama unveiled a major reset of Ghana's cocoa sector recently, vowing to end dependence on exploitative foreign loans and pivot toward local processing to increase revenue.

Greenland and other resource-rich territories now find themselves at the center of a high-stakes geopolitical gambit, as the US's 're-territorialization' scheme threatens to upend post-colonial norms and disrupt the international system. Experts raise the alarm that this should incentivize Africa to adopt 'anticipatory politics'.

Declaring local pharmaceutical manufacturing “the second independence of Africa,” Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centers for Disease Control, is rallying the continent to transform the painful vaccine inequity of the COVID-19 pandemic into a sovereign health future—one where Africa no longer begs for its own medicine.

Nigeria is on the verge of adopting one of Africa's most comprehensive artificial intelligence governance laws, a bill granting a regulator expansive authority to suspend unsafe systems, license high-risk applications, and enforce new ethical mandates for transparency and accountability across the digital economy.

For decades, Ghana’s gold has traveled thousands of miles to be purified, a journey that stripped the nation of both the precious metal and profit. That circuit now closes under a new state-backed refinery pact, which aims to transform Ghana from a mere exporter of ore into a hub for finished high-value bullion.