My story will start from when my phone rang one Saturday morning like that. ‘You didn’t tell me your brother is back! I saw him yesterday; he hasn’t changed much. He told me he came briefly to see you guys.…
Netflix Launches First African Series (Guardian)
11 DECEMBER 2018 Netflix has revealed the launch of its first African original series to be aired in 2019. According to entertainment news site Variety, the series, Queen Sono is a drama that centres around a female secret agent that…
Africa Fintech festival begins in Lagos (Guardian)
Africa Fintech Festival (AFF), which is fast becoming a global brand, starts today in Lagos. The Guardian gathered that the National Fintech Conference, rebranded as AFF, has recorded a lot of successes, breaking new frontiers in technological and financial spheres…
African swine fever spreads in China (Guardian)
African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China’s provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that a situation previously described as under control had become “very serious.” The disease has already caused a…
Letter from Africa: Nigeria – a young country for old men (BBC)
In our series of letters from African journalists, editor-in-chief of Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper Mannir Dan Ali looks at why a country where more than half the population is under 35 looks set to get another septuagenarian president after next…
