Africa’s economic picture for 2025 is no longer a single story of crisis or promise. Recent regional forecasts show steady recovery and pockets of rapid expansion driven by private investment, commodity cycles and renewed policy focus on industrialisation. Growth projections for the region have moved upward this year, and a growing number of countries are delivering above-average GDP gains […]
On November 8, 2025, Asake brought a new sound to Brooklyn’s King Theatre. Backed by a full orchestra under the baton of Glenn Alexander II, he translated club-ready grooves into sweeping string lines, brass accents and layered percussion. The night folded Fuji cadence, Afropop swing and Amapiano pulse into arrangements that pushed his vocal lines into unexpected places. The […]
Lupita Nyong’o said she received offers to play enslaved women even after winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2014 for 12 Years a Slave. She described being pitched roles that recycled trauma and racial shorthand, including suggestions that she appear on a slave ship. Nyong’o said she had to “deafen” herself to commentators who framed her […]
CAF Player of the Year Award Winners 2025: Achraf Hakimi 🇲🇦 2024: Ademola Lookman 🇳🇬 2023: Victor Osimhen 🇳🇬 2022: Sadio Mane 🇸🇳 2019: Sadio Mane 🇸🇳 2018: Mohamed Salah 🇪🇬 2017: Mohamed Salah 🇪🇬 2016: Riyad Mahrez 🇩🇿 2015: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 🇬🇦 2014: Yaya Toure 🇨🇮 2013: Yaya Toure 🇨🇮 2012: Yaya Toure 🇨🇮 2011: Yaya Toure 🇨🇮 […]
▫️ African Player of the Year: Achraf Hakimi 🇲🇦▫️ African Female Player of the Year: Ghizlane Chebbak 🇲🇦▫️ Interclubs Player of the Year: Fiston Mayele 🇨🇩▫️ Best Goalkeeper: Yassine Bounou 🇲🇦 🧤▫️ Best Female Goalkeeper: Chiamaka Nndozie 🇳🇬 🧤▫️ Best Young Player: Othmane Maamma 🇲🇦▫️ Best Young Female Player: Doha El Madani 🇲🇦▫️ Coach of the Year: Bubista 🇨🇻▫️ […]
Arike Ogunbowale has accomplished enough in her own right to fill a Hall of Fame resumé. She was a collegiate heroine at Notre Dame. In the Dallas Wings guard’s hands the ball routinely found the net during high-pressure moments. Two WNBA All-Star MVP titles, four All-Star appearances, a scoring championship, all earned before age 30. Yet the next chapter […]
When you walk into the headquarters of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street, you are entering one of Europe’s most powerful financial institutions. The person who oversees its finances is Afua Kyei, the bank’s Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Finance, Strategy, Performance and Tax. She joined the institution in June 2019 and now finds herself at […]
Rising actor and musician Jaafar Jackson has been officially cast to play the late Michael Jackson in the highly anticipated biopic about the King of Pop’s life and career. The film, titled Michael, is being directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced by Graham King, who previously delivered the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody. Jaafar, the 27-year-old son of Jermaine Jackson, brings […]
British entrepreneur and podcaster Steven Bartlett has reached another milestone in his fast-rising business career. The “Diary of a CEO” host, whose unfiltered conversations with global thinkers and leaders have earned him more than 13 million YouTube subscribers, has successfully closed a new funding round that values his company at $425 million. The valuation cements Bartlett’s position as one […]
