Every year, hundreds of startups are launched across Africa with bold promises to transform industries, disrupt markets, and build the continent’s next generation of technology giants. According to a ...

Africa’s push toward artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating, but new research suggests the continent’s digital privacy foundations remain dangerously uneven. In a detailed policy and discourse ...

What you need to know: Moving beyond “reactive firefighting” necessitates a paradigm shift from political optics toward settlements anchored in cultural legitimacy. Within the contemporary African ...

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Essence: Survival Through Connection opened on Feb. 21 and continues through March 14 at the ShadowBoxX Gallery in downtown ...

Beverly artist Dorothy Straughter’s quilts evoke painful and often ignored historical realities related to slavery, the ...

The Afrohemian design trend has its very own palette. “Instead of pastel boho tones, Afrohemian leans into warm, sunbaked ...

The Afrohemian design trend has its very own palette. “Instead of pastel boho tones, Afrohemian leans into warm, sunbaked hues like ochre, clay, burnt sienna, deep browns, olive, and sand, often ...

This desert enclave has long been many things at once—a spa town, a sanctuary away from Hollywood's prying eyes, a design capital, a shoo-in for winter sun. But as Jason Sheeler reports, at its ...

The African Union (AU) holds its annual summit in Ethiopia this weekend at a time of genocide, myriad insurgencies and coups stretching from one end of the continent to the other, for which it has few ...

Women across Africa are navigating AI-powered systems that increasingly shape access to healthcare, finance, education, and digital services, but new research finds these technologies often amplify ...

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