When people hear the term “green building”, they often imagine expensive technologies, costly developments or environmentally friendly features that only wealthy buyers can afford.
As a design researcher working in urban graphic heritage, I explore how everyday graphic objects communicate in public spaces. I have started to think of the city as a kind of living, dispersed archive.
Western Sahara has been carved in two since the 1980s by a wall that Morocco built to hold on to territory it occupied in 1975.
Africa has reached an important moment in its immunisation journey. Coverage is not rising fast enough to keep pace with population growth, persistent inequities and a growing number of vaccines.
À ce jour, le Sénégal n'a pas reçu un seul dollar du Fonds monétaire international (FMI), et sa dette n'a pas diminué d'un franc.
Two recent books draw on more than a decade of research into South Africa’s minibus taxi industry. A Fork in the Road? The Formalisation of South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Industry and Blood on the Tar, Hope on the Horizon: South Africa’s Minib…
Climate change is making life tougher. Across Africa, failed harvests, shrinking water supplies and more extreme weather are leaving millions of people hungry and forcing many from their homes.
Seven Ethiopian armed groups have announced a new alliance aimed at overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Philosophe camerounais, ancien jésuite et penseur majeur de la condition postcoloniale, Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, né en 1934 et mort en 2018, demeure moins connu du grand public que Valentin Yves Mudimbe ou Achille Mbembe.
Partout en Afrique, les populations s’emploient à restaurer et à gérer les mangroves, les pâturages et les espaces verts urbains. Elles font face à des menaces croissantes liées au changement climatique.