ACC and the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University are undertaking a two-year investigation into processes of futuring that can advance traction for sustainable urban transitions among city leaders and decision-makers. The project rests on the assumption that sustainable urban development requires a break with the present logic of development that predominates in most African countries. This logic is tethered to a modernist vision of advanced post-industrial development that thrives through extractive energy and production systems, reinforced by a consumerist culture. In this imagination chamber, cities are the most sophisticated expressions of modernist progress and productive circulation, manifest in highways,…
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Eight years after striking gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, long jumper, Ese Brume, is targeting another gold medal for Team Nigeria at the event this year in Birmingham, England. Few athletes guarantee medals for their country like Brume. Since she broke into limelight in 2013, Brume has won a medal at every major championship she attended. She became the first Nigerian to win an Olympics medal in athletics in 13 years after grabbing a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. On March 22, this year, Brume won Nigeria’s only medal, a silver, at the World Indoor Championships in…
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Kenya will not get the chance to play at the Africa Cup of Nations finals for the seventh timeZimbabwe and Kenya will not take part in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, the Confederation of African Football has announced.Both nations are unable to contest next month’s qualifiers because of their ongoing bans from international football, handed out by Fifa because of governmental interference in the running of the game.The pair needed their bans lifted two weeks before their first Nations Cup qualifiers to be able to take part in the 2023 qualifying campaign.However, neither country has been able to gain…
This spring, I was fortunate enough to travel to South Africa for the very first time alongside my colleague Callie Robinson. To say it was a dream come true would be an understatement, and I could have easily spent another few weeks exploring all of the beauty that this incredible country has to offer. Although I had to leave after just two weeks, I know without a doubt that it is not a place that I have seen the last of and look forward to returning someday with my family in tow. One particular area of the country I can’t…
Precious Ugwuzor Ahead of the 2022 Africa Soft Power Summit in Kigali, leading stakeholders across Africa’s creative and knowledge industries, have called for increased collaborations, towards the advancement of the continent’s creative and knowledge eco-system.With the Africa Soft Power Summit celebrating its return to a real-world setting, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the stakeholders, drawn from diverse sectors across Africa’s creative and business sectors, have thrown their weight behind the summit, focused on ‘Africa & the Global Community, while calling for increased collaborations across diverse sectors, towards enabling laudable growth for the continent. Billed to take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from…
With no doubt, Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards was star-studded, with outstanding and unique outfits from our favourite celebrities. Each celebrity graced the red carpet with various outfits from their various designers and stylist. And even though Nollywood actor and fashionista Denola Grey won the award, there are other outfits spotted on the red carpet that are worthy of snatching the ‘Best-Dressed Award.’ As we all know, Best-Dressed isn’t only about how good and how unique your outfit is but also how confident you are in your outfit and you well you rock it. Here are top our Top 5…
Travel safety gear Essentials are a must especially if you’re a solo traveler not withholding gender. Every solo traveler is vulnerable.Am writing this in the wake of an incident that happened in Zanzibar involving a female Solo traveler who was on a vacation on this breathe taking Island.She was celebrating her birthday and that night she went to her room after her birthday escapades only to get shock of her life.Please note she had no travel and safety gears essentials. Just as she was about to catch some Zs like a log in the Masai Mara Jungle.She felt someone stroking…
• ‘Agbebaku’s triple jump record has stayed for too long’ Three-time Olympian, Yusuf Alli, does not see any Nigerian athlete breaking his 33-year-old long jump record soon. Alli, who is the chairman of Edo Sports Commission, was the ‘commander-in-chief’ in African athletics in his active days, particularly in long jump, in which he continually broke barriers. He was recently named the coordinator of Team Nigeria to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Apart from being a three-time Olympian, Alli is best remembered for his gold medal at Auckland ‘90 Commonwealth Games. Till date, Alli’s Personal Best of 8.27 metres,…
At the end of Robin Dimet’s documentary about Sami, an Ethiopian man who has spent 20 years translating Greek mythology into Amharic, this heartfelt dedication appears on screen: To the illuminated loners,To the fools who feed on books,To the impassioned outsiders,To the flayed alive smitten with poetry,To the open-hearted and inept,To the radiant and misunderstood. Sami is all these things: open-hearted and inept, radiant and misunderstood, a man flayed alive and smitten with poetry. While Dimet follows Sami’s attempt to print his translations as a book, the documentary focuses on the many contrasts that mark his life and the country…