One of the most common stereotypes that I confront in Finland as a foreigner, and man of color, is that  men like me moved to Finland to take Finnish women.  First of all, this stereotype forces every foreign man and Finnish woman into a narrow stereotype that ignores the more positive story.  Many of us just […]

At the side lines of the landmark China-OIC Forum 2016 in Beijing, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group and China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund), a Beijing-based private equity firm focusing on Africa. The […]

The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) is holding an exhibition on African women filmmakers at its library in Uppsala, Sweden. The films on display are made on African women. Began on March 8, the exhibition runs to the end of the month. “Part of NAI’s mission is to give voice to our African colleagues. The library does that primarily […]

The African Transformation Forum (ATF), held from 14-15th March in Kigali, Rwanda, concluded with the official launch of The Coalition for Transformation in Africa – a network of experts working across sectors and borders to drive policy and institutional reforms. The ATF was organised by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and the Government of […]

US-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) will host a public roundatble on Resolving African Conflicts: Towards An African Model of Peace Operations on Monday at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Participants will include Cedric de Coning of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, Linnea Gelot […]

Liberia’s Education Minister George K. Werner has emphasized the significance of  Mobile Learning, adding that it is an innovative way to provide quality learning opportunities for a huge segment of the population. Serving recently as one of the panelists at the  UNESCO Mobile Learning Forum in Paris, France, Minister Werner said Mobile Learning provides the […]

African Leadership University (ALU),  a newly established tertiary institution offering programs aimed at developing Africa’s future leaders, Wednesday held a grand opening ceremony at its Mauritius campus, African Leadership College. The event, attended by Mauritian Deputy Prime Minister, Xavier-Luc Duval formally marked the start of ALU’s drive to build 25 campuses across Africa that on completion […]

On March 15 Sweden’s Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality Åsa Regnér delivered a speech (below) at the Commission on the Status of Women 2016 being convened in New York, the United States of America: Distinguished delegates, It is an honour for me to address the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of […]

Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA), in partnership with Chevron Liberia, Starz Institute of Technology and Google, on March 11, launched its free Computer Resource and Research Center (CRRC) in Congo Town, just outside Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Speaking at the launch, Cllr. Deweh Gray, chairman emeritus of GPFA Board, said the center is intended to offer […]

The attacks that killed 16 people yesterday at a beach resort in Cote d’Ivoire were shocking and brutal, but not entirely unexpected. Security experts had been warning that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was a growing threat outside its traditional stronghold in northern Mali. The group, and its affiliate al-Mourabitoun, claimed responsibility for attacks […]