Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

A week in Africa

To coincide with the Africa Utopia festival at London's Southbank Centre, we take a look at issues across the continent, going beyond the usual coverage of extreme events to give a broader picture of life as it's really lived

13 September 2015

  • Somalian nomadic hut

    Beautiful Somali buildings are rising up in a former war zone. It gives me hope

    Sada Mire
    From nomadic huts to art deco houses and Omani, Egyptian and Ottoman architecture, there is much in Somalia’s heritage to celebrate

11 September 2015

  • Construction workers are seen near Luanda Stadium, one of the stadiums that will host the 2010 African Cup of Nations soccer tournament, on the outskirts of Luanda, Angola, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. Angola will host the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament from Jan. 10, 2010 to Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

    Em Angola estamos orgulhosos – temos o controlo sobre o nosso antigo colonizador

    Lucia Kula
  • Aerial view of Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River at the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia

    The sell-off of Zambia’s mines has created an energy crisis

    Spectator Kalaki
  • Congolese militia leader Ntaganda sits in the courtroom of the ICC during the first day of his trial at the Hague in the Netherlands<br>Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda sits in the courtroom of the ICC (International Criminal Court) during the first day of his trial at the Hague in the Netherlands September 2, 2015. Ntaganda goes on trial at the ICC on Wednesday accused of crimes including murder and the rape of his own child soldiers during the early 2000s. REUTERS/Michael Kooren TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Traduire le Terminator en justice n’est que le début de l’instauration de la paix au Congo

    Vava Tampa
  • Iman Amrani

    Pourquoi ne pensons-nous pas à l’Afrique du Nord comme faisant partie de l’Afrique?

    Iman Amrani

  • The written language is helping to preserve our oral culture

    Souleymane Diamanka

  • Une nouvelle génération perpétue la culture orale du Sénégal

    Souleymane Diamanka

  • Somalis returning to the motherland are finding their foreign ways out of favour

    Nadifa Mohamed

  • A week in Africa: readers' photos

  • Why is travelling with an African passport so difficult?

    Eliza Anyangwe

10 September 2015

  • A member of the #BringBackOurGirls Abuja campaign group addresses a protest in Abuja

    Can the hashtag transform Africa?

  • Luanda stadium

    In Angola we’re proud – we have the upper hand over our former coloniser

    Lucia Kula
  • A bicycle taxi-man listens to the news using the radio on his mobile phone while waiting for clients in Bujumbura, Burundi.

    Africa in numbers - how its countries compare

    George Arnett and Paul Scruton
  • Soweto, South Africa

    You think you know Soweto? Welcome to the millionaire suburbs

    Sanelisiwe Maliza

  • 10 choses que l’Afrique a apportées au monde

    Eliza Anyangwe

  • My skin colour represents privilege and status. But it makes me an outsider too

    Pádraic MacOireachtaigh

  • If Africa is rising, why are the villages left behind?

    Chibundu Onuzo

9 September 2015

  • Women sell vegetables in a market in Lagos, Nigeria

    Five centuries ago Africa was booming: it can rise again

    Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack
    The first European explorers were amazed at the continent’s wealth. Now, after centures of slavery and colonialism, its economies are starting to strengthen
  • A masquerade dancer in Abuja

    Crime and Christianity are killing off our religious traditions

    Chika Unigwe
    My Nigerian village’s annual celebration of rebirth faces a twin threat. When my father’s generation passes away, will this part of our history die with them?
  • Iman Amrani

    Why don’t we think of north Africa as part of Africa?

    Iman Amrani
    I’m Algerian but sometimes it seems that ‘black African’ is the only category that exists. In truth, through our shared history there’s a strong glue that connects us
About 39 results for A week in Africa
12
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：