Africa produces around 60 per cent of the world’s total annual production of cassava, which is about 200 million tonnes. Within Africa, Tanzania in the East, the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa and Nigeria in the West account for around 70 per cent of cassava output from the continent.

Like most African countries, South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, was colonized and crippled by Cold War geopolitics. Since 1962, Korea’s policy of Living National Treasures has been a key catalyst for rebuilding the country. Yet, this crucial programme was completely overlooked during the recently concluded 2024 Korea-Africa Summit.

“You all are my family!” How many times have we heard social media influencers address their followers with such language? But we know, and they know, that it is simply not true. The whole world cannot be your family. People who gravitate towards you because of your talent – which represents just one singular aspect of the complexity of a person’s being – simply do not qualify as family. Neither do they qualify as community, which is next to family in the natural social order of life.

African countries, most of which came into existence through the exploitative and oppressive Berlin Conference, continue to struggle to build strong and sustainable systems due to the faulty foundations laid in 1884/85.

African indigenous cattle breeds exemplify the excellent tropical breeds that possess some genes needed to maintain the presence of any form of cattle breed in the world. However, American and European corporations have criticized them because they don't produce as much milk and meat and can't live in stalls for their entire lives.

Africa, like the rest of the world, is undergoing rapid transformation. Yet, the nature of this change suggests an ominous trajectory, threatening to render the continent unrecognizable in the coming decades.

It is expected that community rights advocacy will define the next level of interaction between Africans and the rest of the world.

The small-scale production of dry and condensed milk could be one area of business interest for governments, communities, families and individuals in East Africa, with the goal of exporting exclusively to West Africa.

Drivers of change in Africa’s education will not be money, foreign direct investment, economic assistance or technical expertise from the Global North or elsewhere.

The labelling of beautiful, talented, hardworking, pleasant children with such a bright future as “Ghetto kids” lies at the heart of the lies that Africa has been fed and now believes about itself. Africans are not poor. Africa is not a poor continent. That someone is lacking in material resources does not make the definitive label of poverty to be placed on that person. There is so much wealth of wisdom and resources in every individual and in communities across Africa, too evident for any person or community to accept the poverty label.

For centuries since the establishment of higher education in Europe and North America, scholarships and grants were gladly extended to students who were interested in pursuing university education but could not afford it. It was unthinkable to lure a young soul into a lifetime of debt for the sake of procuring an education that would make them useful to society.

The history of Western medicine largely excludes the prime contribution of Africa in the application of reason, logic and science in the prevention and understanding of diseases. This injustice is immediately visible in the attribution of the title of the “father of modern medicine” to a European, the Greek physician, Hippocrates, instead of an African, the Egyptian physician, Imhotep. Yet, archaeological research has established that thousands of years before Hippocrates, Imhotep, a physician of extraordinary intelligence, left detailed writings on the prevention and treatment of numerous diseases.

The Garifuna people are being dispossessed of their lands to the extent that they do not even have enough lands to cultivate food. As a result, the community is now threatened by impending food insecurity as they become more dependent on imports for their sustenance.

A woman’s monthly period is a part of her natural features. Greedy capitalists have problematized this natural phenomenon, turning it into an expensive venture for women, with catastrophic effects on the environment.

There is a need to ask questions about the nature of the Bantu migration and the effects it had on the indigenous communities that occupied the regions prior to the Bantu expansion. Whose lands did the Bantus settle on? What were the implications of the Bantu settlements on the culture, language, and lived realities of existing indigenous peoples such as the Pygmies, the Khoi San, and the Cushites?

With rapidly increasing internet access and penetration across the region, the time has come for a paradigm shift for Africa as far as natural resource management and processing are concerned.

With the introduction of for-profit private education in Africa, schools degenerated from being a level playing field where the children of the rich and the poor could grow together to build a better future for their communities to becoming a status symbol.