By Dounard Bondo A major union of Nigerian public medical professionals declared an indefinite strike starting Thursday, April 1st, as the Covid-19 pandemic wages on...

By Kay Ugwuede The seeds that blossomed into Ozoz Sokoh’s FeastAfrique, a digital archive and library of West African culinary history, were several: past experiences...

By Aïda Dramé What country is this when at night, the law of the strongest strikes? These mythical lyrics of Michel Berger keep repeating in...

By Pelumi Salako IGANGAN, Nigeria — On the day of his death, December 11th, 2020, Dr. Fatai Aborode rode on the back of a motorcycle...

By Houleye Thiam  Black Mauritanians have historically been stripped of their land ownership rights, most notably beginning in the 1980s when a new law provided...

By Elimane Ndao In early March, daily protests against President Macky Sall rocked Senegal. Security forces reacted violently to the protests and killed 10 young...

By Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye On February 4th, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden renewed the United States’ commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community around the world by...

By Aïda Dramé Nearly a year after the start of the pandemic, the development of vaccines in record time is perceived in Senegal as a...

By Ahmed Coulibaly Though the figures are a far cry from the rates in Europe and North America, the number of Covid-19 infections and deaths...

By Ope Adetayo When Tukura John Daniel was a child, he noticed he was energetic in one moment and in the next, he was sad...

CONAKRY- In Guinea, a spike in Covid-19 cases has saturated epidemiological treatment centers in the country. Due to a lack of space in hospitals,...

By Haddy Jatou Gassama Adji Sarr is the name of the woman who ignited one of the biggest and deadliest sets of protests in Senegal’s modern...

By Nosmot Gbadamosi Last August, artist Emeka Ogboh received a call. The world was in the thick of unwavering Black Lives Matter protests that toppled...

By Joe Penney When 26-year-old Cameroonian asylum seeker Wilfred Tebah was reunited with his family in Columbus, Ohio, in early February, one of the first...

By Varney Kamara GOUÉCKÉ, Guinea —The small town of Gouécké in southeastern Guinea grabbed international attention over the last two weeks when the Guinean government...

By Dounard Bondo Gunmen kidnapped 317 schoolgirls from the Government Girls School in Jangebe town, Zamfara state, in northern Nigeria overnight from Thursday to Friday....

By Isaac Abrak Doctors in Abuja, Nigeria, spoke to Sahelien.com about how the pandemic is affecting their lives. “It’s like you’re at war. Your family must...

By Kemi Falodun When the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in Nigeria, health professionals across the country braced for the task ahead. Doctor Tope...

By Ahmed Coulibaly After the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Côte d'Ivoire in May 2020, the Ivorian authorities set up multiple funds to help...

By Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye In December 2020, the umbrella body for Nigerian lecturers, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASSU) called off its strike, and...