Grades one through twelve in the School District of Philadelphia go back on August 24, and by the second week, a familiar arithmetic will start showing up in group chats and church bulletins across the city: how many degrees outside, how many schools sent home early, whose building made the list this time.
South Africa’s Reed Dance Festival is an ancient tradition of the Swazi and Zulu people known as the Umkhosi womhlanga, or the Zulu Reed Dance.
The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to Mali, with most communities settled along the Bandiagara Escarpment, an imposing sandstone cliff stretching across central Mali.
The Homowo festival is a vibrant and significant cultural celebration observed by the Ga people of Accra, the capital city of Ghana.
Image courtesy of FunTimes Magazine Every year on July 26, Liberia comes alive with the colors red, white, and blue….
School gave you a shape for four years. Wake up, go to class, turn in the paper, and show up to the group project. Then it just stops, all at once, and nobody warns you how disorienting that stopping actually feels. You made it count for four years by somebody else’s definition of counting. Now you have to figure out your own.
All through history, mankind has witnessed the birth and extinction of many civilizations. Yet few among these ancient civilizations have continued to capture the world’s imagination like the ancient Egyptian civilization. With its towering pyramids, majestic temples, mysterious hieroglyphics, and legendary pharaohs, ancient Egypt offers mankind a glimpse of the remarkable wonders of human ingenuity, ambition, and resilience.
For decades, many Africans living abroad have viewed the continent primarily as a place to send money home. Today, that narrative is changing. Africa is increasingly becoming a destination for wealth creation, entrepreneurship, and long-term investment.
Today, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is being driven by artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that is rapidly reshaping industries, governments, education, healthcare, finance, agriculture, manufacturing, and nearly every aspect of modern society. Unlike previous technological revolutions that primarily automated physical labour, AI is increasingly automating cognitive tasks once considered exclusive to human intelligence. This shift is redefining how work is performed and also where opportunities for employment and economic growth can emerge.
It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold. In 2011, the global population reached the 7 billion mark, and today, it stands at about 7.7 billion.
