Abdi Latif Dahir

During his campaign for presidency, Donald Trump centered his trade proposals on a myriad of policies aimed at fighting for one entity: the American worker. The president-elect vowed to prevent American companies from taking manufacturing jobs overseas, impose a hefty 45% tax on Chinese goods, and to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which boosts trade and economic ties between 12 countries, including the US, Canada, Japan, and Mexico.

Parents and students in Uganda are protesting against a High Court decision to close a chain of low-cost, private schools backed by investors including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. The court ruled that the Bridge International Academies were not properly licensed, hired unqualified teachers and used unsanitary spaces for teaching.

It’s a tight race to the White House, and both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been campaigning hard and wide, in a final push to make their closing pitches to millions of voters.

In less than 48 hours, Americans will go to the polls to elect a new president. But no matter what happens on election day (Nov. 8), Trump will not win the majority of the black vote. Many of these voters are expected to heed the message of president Barack Obama, who has warned that the Republican candidate will undo his administration’s legacy. But Trump’s message—to make America great again—might still draw an unlikely group of supporters from within the black community: African immigrants.

This week, Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel prize in literature, said he wanted another award: The Grammy. Speaking at Oxford University, Soyinka was responding to Bob Dylan’s recent crowning as the winner of the prestigious literature prize, when he said: “Since I’ve written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy.”

When it comes to Africa, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on an equal footing: neither campaign has said much about the continent. This is despite the fact that the US spends hundreds of billions of dollars every year in development and military aid across Africa. One reason for this is that both candidates have been running inward-looking campaigns, promising to deal with domestic issues ranging from taxation, manufacturing, racial justice, healthcare, infrastructure, immigration reform and national security.

Makerere University, one of Africa’s oldest and most prestigious universities, has been closed by Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni. It follows weeks of student protests and a months-long strike by lecturers who say the government hasn’t paid their allowances since February.

A nearly six-fold hike in visa fees to Saudi Arabia has been met with heavy criticism, with many Muslim countries voicing concerns that the plan will be an added burden to pilgrims visiting Islam’s holiest sites.

When anti-government protests rocked Gondar city in northern Ethiopia in July, ethnic Tigrayans living in the Amhara region started fleeing. For a quarter of a century, the Tigrayans, who make up only 6% of the country’s over 100 million population, have enjoyed disproportionate influence and representation in government.

Zora Bikangaga was born in Fresno, California and grew up in a white suburb in the state’s north called Healdsburg. As one of the only two black boys in the neighborhood, Bikangaga was the subject of racial slurs and threats of physical bullying. He was called terms like porch monkey and a coon; a shopkeeper once asked him to empty his pockets to see if he was stealing; and a childhood friend once told him to sit in the back of the class “where you belong.”

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o did not win the Nobel Prize in Literature, yet again. For years, the Kenyan writer has topped the list of contenders at betting sites, rivaling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, or with the case this year, American novelist Don DeLillo. But on Oct. 13, the Swedish Academy presented the prize to the American singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan, whose reticence about the award since has been called “rude and arrogant,” and has left many wondering if he will ever accept it.

Police in Uganda have arrested two youth activists campaigning for the US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in front of the American embassy in Kampala.

When 26-year-old Ethiopian Feyisa Lilesa crossed his wrists at the finish line as he took second place in the marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Mohammed Ademo knew it was a moment he had to seize.

Few people know about the legend of the Kipipiri women: brave warriors whose unique and complex hairdos played a significant role in undermining the British empire’s bloody rule in Kenya.

The future of M-Pesa, the world’s leading mobile money-transfer system, lies in transforming the service’s “clumsy” technology into something more efficient, innovative, and collaborative. At least that’s the vision spelled out by the company’s CEO.

The internet shutdown in Ethiopia will drain millions of dollars from the economy, besides undermining citizens’ rights to impart and seek information, observers of the current state of emergency say.

Ethiopia, home to the third largest number of diplomatic missions in the world, only after New York and Geneva—has limited foreign diplomats from traveling beyond a 40-kilometer radius (25 miles) out of the capital Addis Ababa.

For many in the West, slavery is a far off, historical concept. But a new index shows that consumers all over the world are getting products that at some stage were touched by the hands of modern-day slaves.

The Nigerian novelist and writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has published a new 15-step manifesto on how to raise a feminist child. The piece comes in the form of a letter to Ijeawele, a friend who has given birth to a daughter, Chizalum Adaora. Adichie herself recently became a mother for the first time.

Nigeria’s president said his wife belongs in the kitchen, following an interview in which she openly questioned his command over the government.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe earned much of his status as an international pariah with a series of controversial laws and populist policies that have crudely attempted to reverse the imbalance of an economy that was traditionally controlled or dominated by the country’s white minority. But as the the economy has nearly ground to a halt in recent years, he is being forced to reconsider some of his more controversial positions.

After almost a year of anti-government protests, Ethiopia on Tuesday (Oct. 11) admitted that the death toll from police crackdowns and deadly stampedes could exceed more than 500 people. The admission came a few days after the government declared a country-wide six-month state of emergency, and blamed external forces for trying to break up the nation of over 100 million people.

The economic outlook for Africa keeps getting worse. Growth in the 45 countries that make up Sub-Saharan Africa will drop to its lowest level in more than 20 years, says the International Monetary Fund. It projects a drop to 1.4% this year, less than half last year’s 3.5% and way below the 5% plus the region enjoyed between 2010 and 2014.

A Canadian court has cleared the way for a labor lawsuit against Nevsun Resources by workers who claim they were forced to work for the company’s Bisha mine in Eritrea. The British Columbia court’s ruling on Thursday (Oct. 6) rejected efforts by the Vancouver-based mining company to get the case heard in Eritrea and not in Canada.