Culture & Sports

REUTERS The NBA will invest millions of dollars in Basketball Africa League, its first professional league outside North America, and will be active in its operation. The NBA, in partnership with the International Basketball…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.UK/NEWS A mobile phone app that lets users access an archive of Ethiopian music is being launched in the capital, Addis Ababa. The app, known by the Amharic word Awtar, or strings, took five years to develop by a team…

Cameroon’s top female football star has opened an academy to teach the sport to girls. The academy is the first of its kind in the country, where football is still largely considered a boys’ sport. Gaelle Enganamouit, a 27-year-old…

To “showcase the best African narratives,” some artists and writers have teamed up to publish comic books in print and online. They also are experimenting with augmented reality products. Nigerians Ziki Nelson and Tolu Foyeh, along with…

Senegal has opened its new $34 million Museum of Black Civilizations in the capital, Dakar. It follows calls from Senegal and other African nations for France to return art it looted during the colonial era. Among the first temporary…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Netflix is to launch its first African original series in 2020. Queen Sono is “a drama about a secret agent who fights crime while dealing with crises in her personal life,” according to entertainment news…