Culture & Sports

ADF STAFF Tanzanian filmmakers have released the country’s first film to be streamed on Netflix. “Binti” is a story about the lives and struggles of four women surviving extreme hardship in Dar es Salaam. The film is about the painful…

REUTERS In a tin shed off the backstreets of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) capital, a barefoot 61-year-old Jean-Luther Misoko Nzalayala, known as Socklo, hacks with a machete at a lump of wood that is starting to…

REUTERS Somali artisan Muse Mohamud Olosow carefully sorts through a huge pile of camel bones discarded by a slaughterhouse in Mogadishu, selecting pieces that he will carve into jewelry and ornate beads used by fellow Muslims while…

ADF STAFF Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur got the world’s attention when she won the French Open junior title in 2011. Now, she says, tennis is more than just a sport for her. Her home country has little in the way of tennis…

VOICE OF AMERICA Senegal will host the Youth Olympic Games in 2026 in what supporters hope will be the first step in proving to the world that Africa can host the Summer Olympics in the future. Senegal will be the first African nation…

ADF STAFF Nigeria hosted the inaugural Sahel Military Games with about 350 athletes from military forces participating in a weeklong competition in October 2021. The Organisation of Military Sports in Africa (OSMA) organized the…