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They are African, working across a wide range of highly specialised fields — industry, energy, agriculture, healthcare, technology, AI, defence and more. Some are young; others are grandparents. Among them are business leaders and trade unionists, intellectuals and brilliant young minds. What they all have in common is a determination to change the rules of the game and build genuine sovereignty. Here are fifteen profiles, each showing in its own way a path forward.
The veteran reporter, who has specialised in Africa for more than 20 years, tells the story of a continent far removed from clichés. On the occasion of the French publication of Children of the Nile, an account of his long journey along the legendary river, he discusses the encounters that shape his perspective, the region’s geopolitical upheavals and the power of storytelling to convey the complexity of reality.
Ten years after Afrotopia, Senegalese author and economist Felwine Sarr continues, in La Fabrique du présent, to explore pathways towards African emancipation grounded in dignity, knowledge and the living world.
Thanks to his discovery in Gabon of the oldest known multicellular fossils, more than 2 billion years old, Moroccan geologist Abderrazak El Albani has transformed our understanding of the origins of life. In his latest book, he looks back at the major scientific advances of recent years and takes us to the farthest reaches of the living world.
They are researchers, developers, coders and entrepreneurs. They are designing new models and building solutions for healthcare, agriculture, digital networks and energy. They share a common ambition: to create an artificial intelligence for Africa—one that speaks its languages, understands its realities and responds to its challenges. Above all, they refuse to let the continent remain a spectator in the technological revolution.
After fifteen years of pharaonic construction, Ethiopia officially inaugurated “its” Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on September 9. Despite the reluctance of international donors and threats from Egypt, the authorities brought this colossal project to completion by mobilising the population. A historic achievement for a nation in search of sovereignty—and grandeur.
These are the cities that have become indicators of the continent's modernisation, demographic growth, creativity, inequalities and social change. From business, culture and lifestyle to institutions and security, here is our exclusive ranking of Africa's fifteen most attractive cities.
Africa is the beating heart of global music! Urban rhythms, rap, fusion, traditional sounds, superstars and rising stars, including those from the diaspora. Here's our selection of fifteen African artists who have conquered the charts, our ears and our hearts!
Welcome to ‘Kin’, home to nearly 20 million people and the largest French-speaking city in the world. Huge, seductive, chaotic and dangerous, the capital dances beneath a volcano. And searches for a viable future.
The « war of the generals » is entering its third year, with no hope of peace in sight. The country is ravaged by violence and fighting. Its people are exhausted. Regional powers are playing their cards to gain strategic control over wealth. And the continent remains powerless in the face of disaster.