NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu continues his journey along West Africa's most ambitious urban corridor. In Togo, he meets the Nana Benz — icons of past prosperity in a region where opportunity is shifting.

The manufacturing of African print textiles has shifted to China in the 21st century. While they are widely consumed in African countries – and symbolic of the continent – the rise of “made in China” ...

Payton McGriff made a remarkable decision her senior year at the University of Idaho. It was her final semester in the spring of 2017, and she turned down a job offer she had been dreaming of in a ...

Journalist Sira Sow sits behind a green microphone in a recording booth in a hot rural village in eastern Senegal. She speaks in the local language of Wolof on La Laghem FM community radio, her words ...

Researchers in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Togo can apply for a remote position. The Africa Women Journalism Project (AWJP) is hiring three research assistants to work on the Reporting Fellowship for ...

Mining is generally considered a gendered and male-dominated profession. However, many African women now work in this fast-growing industry. In a WhatsApp interview with Global Voices, the filmmaker ...

Researchers in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Togo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda can apply for a remote position. The Africa Women Journalism Project (AWJP) is hiring a head ...