Sunday 8 March 2026
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Culture
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As African fiction moved from rural worlds to urban centers, place began to reshape not just stories, but the form of the novel itself.…
As African fiction moved from rural worlds to urban centers, place began to reshape not just stories, but the form of the novel itself.…
Opinion
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Returning to childhood neighbourhood, Lideta, Khalid Yohannes finds Addis Ababa transformed by glass towers and bulldozers. What does the city lose – and gain – in its march towards modernity? …
Returning to childhood neighbourhood, Lideta, Khalid Yohannes finds Addis Ababa transformed by glass towers and bulldozers. What does the city lose – and gain – in its march towards modernity? …
Culture
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A construction boom is transforming the Mogadishu skyline. But as investors pump money into new apartment buildings and shopping centres, they're also widening inequality in a city where hundreds of thousands of displaced victims of war and drought struggle to survive.
The boom follows decades of…
A construction boom is transforming the Mogadishu skyline. But as investors pump money into new apartment buildings and shopping centres, they're also widening inequality in a city where hundreds of thousands of displaced victims of war and drought struggle to survive.
The boom follows decades of…
Thoughts
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Patrick Gathara writes about western politics in the same way westerners write about African and Asian countries. His aim is to encourage reflection on the language we use and to highlight the offensive assumptions embedded within it.
Following the televised debate between Donald Trump and…
Patrick Gathara writes about western politics in the same way westerners write about African and Asian countries. His aim is to encourage reflection on the language we use and to highlight the offensive assumptions embedded within it.
Following the televised debate between Donald Trump and…
