Analyst examining the trends and insider data shaping investment, enterprise, and development across Africa.
Traveling to new cities and countries, exploring new places — hopping a plane and jetting off to a place you’ve never been to before is always exciting! But there are different ways to travel the world. Some people prefer to fly first class, stay in a luxury hotel, and eat
Welcome to our installation of Exponent Scholarships, a weekly blog post that curates promising scholarship opportunities for young Africans both in Africa and around the world. We publish this blog every Friday, so please make sure to follow The African Exponent on Facebook to make sure that you don’t
Bluetooth technology has now quite a role to play in our daily lives. Most portable gadgets we have these days come with this patent technology that allows us to send and receive video, audio, and data files. Our modern mobile phones, headphones, smartwatches, and various other devices are equipped with
One of the hardest things to do is to watch your loved ones struggling because of difficult circumstances. Chances are, you’d do anything to take the pain away from them, but you’re not sure how. While you can’t change the events that are hurting them, you can
Somehow, it has become generally accepted that black is more than just a colour. Sadly, many schools of thought associate the colour with evil, and this has translated into how many people around the world perceive black people, and Africa in general. For example, it was recently discovered that the
Juventus is reportedly re igniting their interest in the bid to re-sign their former midfielder Paul ludibe pogba The Italian old ladies who have dominated the Italian football;; for decade having parted ways with the French midfielder in a whooping deal worth 90 million pound is understandably to have resumed
“We know that Africa is neither French, nor British, nor American, nor Russian, that it is African.” - Patrice Lumumba Critics who favor Pan Africanism argue that it is declarations such as this by Patrice Lumumba that cost him his life; they claim that there exists an underground war against
Amidst a global pandemic, Mozambique has been hit with an Islam Insurgence of warlike proportions. At the worst possible time in modern times, an Islamist led rebellion that usually occurs in low-intensity attacks has revived with greater aggression and a clear resolve, to upset the balance of power in Mozambique
The treatment of HIV has been premised on the daily intake of antiretroviral drugs and they do not eliminate the virus from the body. Antiretroviral therapy has prolonged life and HIV has ceased being a death sentence, as it's been in use since the 1990s. But a new,
Just Like Familiarity, Invention Breeds Contempt Humans overestimate what they know and underestimate what they don’t know. When you present an unfamiliar idea (unfamiliar to them, not you) or piece of information to people, it must be met with vehement distrust and utmost contempt. If you told the people
Africa has recorded more 737 deaths from 13, 473 Covid-19 cases, the casualties from the epidemic cuts across class, nationalities and age groups. The death of a 6-year-old in Kenya and other youths from around the globe helped debunk the myth that the Coronavirus only affected the old. Health organizations
It has always been one of the biggest fears to have coronavirus hit any one of the slums in South Africa. These fears materialized when a covid19 case hit the slums of Khayelitsha. A slum in the City of Cape, it is listed as one of the top 5 slums
In a world filled with a mixture of beautiful wildlife, so diverse we’ll never know the true extent of it, it can be upsetting to discover that many of these animals are becoming endangered or extinct at alarming rates. With several contributing factors, one of the most common is
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is one of the darkest periods in the history of humans. Starting as early as the mid-17th century, the slave trade grew into an extremely lucrative trade for the capitalists in the US and the UK. It was a period marked by the cruelty of the
The African resistance to colonization was a recurring thing. It is often summed up as one event but the resistance was omnipresent as it was constantly present in the lives of the Africans. One of the most tremendous eruptions of the 20th-century African resistance was the Maji Maji rising in
The dark traits, the murders, the torture and the dictatorial tendencies that rocked the core of Uganda during the period between 1971 to 1979 are the main reason the name Idi Amin Dada is permanently etched in the books of history. If history recorded him any different he would have
