Travel
New Direct Routes Put Entebbe on More Boarding Passes Than Ever
A string of new connections is shrinking journey times between East Africa and the rest of the world.
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Culture
The Cost of Going Viral: How False News Can Destroy Reputations in Minutes
A fabricated quote, a miscaptioned video, a name attached to a crime never committed. The mechanics of viral destruction are faster than any correction…
Culture
Breaking News Is Broken: Why Speed Is Beating Accuracy
The red banner once meant 'verified and urgent'. It now means 'unverified but fast'. How the news industry's most trusted format became its most…
Enviroment
The Sun is Becoming East Africa’s Fastest-Growing Power Utility
Solar installations are multiplying across the region, leapfrogging the grid the way mobile phones leapfrogged landlines.
Culture
Who Gets to Decide What Becomes News in Africa?
Foreign wires, platform algorithms and a handful of editors still shape what a billion people hear about themselves. The fight over the African narrative…
Business
Africa’s New Media Economy: From Newspapers to Phones
Print collapsed, radio endures, and the phone won. The business models that will define African media's next decade are being invented right now.
Audio
Reports of Radio’s Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
In the age of streaming, the humble transistor-era medium remains Africa's most trusted source of news — and it is adapting.
Business
Why African Creators Are Becoming Media Companies Without Calling Themselves Media Companies
Comedians with research teams, YouTubers with fact-checkers, TikTokers outdrawing television. The creator-media merger is the industry's least-discussed revolution.
Business
The Attention Economy: Why Everyone Is Fighting for Your 10 Seconds
The average scroll-past is now measured in heartbeats. Understanding who profits from those ten seconds — and who pays for them — is the…
Travel
Travel Is Becoming Content: How Instagram and TikTok Are Changing African Tourism
Destinations are now chosen for how they photograph. That shift is rewriting where tourist money flows across the continent — and who captures it.