Archive - The Baobab

🔅 A Presidential Pardon 30 Years After the Gallows

Plus, A Biblical City on a Hill

Jun 18

🔅 Hollywood's Cinematic Translators

Plus, Mo Ibrahim’s Message to Africa

Jun 16

🔅 Idris Elba Wants to Build the “African Odeon”

Plus, Where Lava Burns Blue After Dark

Jun 13

🔅 Billboard Africa

Plus, the “Perfect Dark Skin?”, and Ethiopia’s Underground Scene

Jun 11

🔅 Inside Uganda’s Most Daring Art Space

Plus, The Fallout of the US’s Vanishing Aid is Becoming Clearer

Jun 6

🔅 Trump 2.0 & the Future of African Journalism

Plus, Bill Gates’ “ctrl-alt-donate-to-Africa” moment

Jun 4

🔅 The Voice That Refused to Say Goodbye

Courting Trump While China Owns the Board

Jun 2

May 2025

🔅 The 1994 Human Zoo in France

Plus, The Youth Exodus That Could Reshape the World

May 30

🔅 Elephants on Barges, Royal Drummers & a Whole Lot of Mud

Plus, Africa’s Top Bank Is Picking a New Boss

May 28

🔅 Sankara's Homecoming

And When Trump Tried to School Ramaphosa

May 26

🔅 A Black Gold Boom

And Forget the Textbook Trope That Early Humans Only Thrived on Endless Savannas

May 23

🔅 A New Record for a Living Female Artist

And Nigeria’s Cannes Breakthrough

May 21

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