How did Africa get so far behind the rest of the world?

Ethiopia is 7 years behind the rest of the world, here is why. Credit...

Ethiopian calendar has 13 months. 12 of those months have 30 days, and the last one has five. Time is also counted differently, with a day split into two 12 ...

Honest Accounts 2017 - How the world profits from Africa's wealth

A key problem is that the rest of the world, particularly Western countries, are extracting far more than they send back. Meanwhile, they are pushing economic ...

Africa | Walk Free

... has by far the highest share of the world's forced marriages. Fourteen per cent of all people in forced labour were in Africa (3.8 million), the third ...

How Africa Got Left Behind - FEE.org

African poverty was not caused by colonialism, capitalism or free trade. As I have noted before, many of Europe's former dependencies became ...

Africa faces disproportionate burden from climate change and ...

“Over the past 60 years, Africa has observed a warming trend that has become more rapid than the global average. In 2023, the continent ...

Migration data in Eastern Africa

Eastern Africa has historically been part of global migration ... In Africa, as in the rest of the world, most refugees remain near to ...

Africa | World Migration Report

North Africa is a point of departure for thousands of migrants who embark on journeys, largely along the west and central Mediterranean routes. Across the ...

Which best explains why Southern Africa lagged so far behind the...

The outmoded government policies are a major factor in why Africa is still trailing behind the rest of the globe.

Not all walls are built to divide us: In Africa, the world's longest wall ...

So far, 48% of the envelope has been engaged in the form of commitments, contracts and disbursements – which is a great effort in nine months.

Understanding evolving China-Africa economic relations

... Africa economic relations are shifting as the global economy slows ... China has become Africa's largest trading partner and creditor in ...

Review: Walter Rodney, 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'

As Rodney points out, 'When the citizens of Europe own the land and mines of Africa, this is the most direct way of sucking the African ...

The first migrations out of Africa - The Australian Museum

While there is some debate about whether Homo ergaster was the first of our ancestors to leave Africa, they did possess the physical and cultural attributes ...

Africa in 2023: Continuing political and economic volatility

Key African economies such as South Africa and Nigeria were already stuck with low growth and many African governments have seen their debt ...

The Scramble for Africa | St John's College, University of Cambridge

They saw it as a new place to invest the money made in industry. European powers were slow to realise the benefits of claiming land in Africa but when one or ...

Russia's Growing Footprint in Africa | Council on Foreign Relations

While Moscow's involvement in Africa lags behind other powers, it is increasingly tapping into anti-Western sentiment to bolster its ...

The History of African Development

Africa, but the origin of food production in West Africa did not lag far behind that of the Near East. ... Prior to that, in Africa as well as much of the rest of ...

READ: Anthropocene Africa — Out of Every Crisis, an Opportunity

In comparison, the past 500 years have been a painful time in Africa's history, with the slave trade and colonization, as the world zones came crashing together ...

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] - The Africa Center

... go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he must do so. If his ... is tired, but my soul is at rest." They will be the young high school and ...

Understanding Africa's Recent Coups | GJIA

The nine military coups in Africa since 2020 are not homogeneous. There is a diversity in causes and purposes behind these coups.

The idea of 'precolonial Africa' is vacuous and wrong | Aeon Essays

That way, we would have no difficulty identifying African contributions to the global ... have so far referenced? I do not see any problem ...