Adam Aboobaker

Nov 13, 2024 | wiredspace.wits.ac.za | Adam Aboobaker

Jul 5, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Sharon Tshipa |William Shoki |Sean Jacobs |Adam Aboobaker

“I cannot entirely say that totems have helped in our ecosystem and biodiversity conservation,” says Kgosi Kgari Sechele III, when I ask him about the connections between spiritual beliefs and his country’s globally recognized ecological wealth. Sechele III is a chief who is the direct descendant of one of Botswana’s founders, Sechele I, who was renowned as a brave warrior of the Tswana-Boer Wars of 1852-1853.

Jul 4, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Sean Jacobs |William Shoki |Adam Aboobaker |Kari Mugo

Entitled, The Wake, the 15th edition of the Dak’art biennale (initially scheduled from May 16 to June 16, 2024) has now been postponed to November, due to “political unrest” in Senegal, after the election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye as President in April 2024. The Dak’art biennale is one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent; the other is the Bamako Encounters Photo Biennale in Mali, launched in 1994.

Jul 31, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Adam Aboobaker |Victor Adetula |Tom Devriendt

There should be no doubt that Kenya is in an intractable economic crisis. Filling up gas for a drive from Nairobi to my hometown in Limuru cost 10,000 ksh (about USD70). As a result of the high gas costs prices for everything else have gone up, including public transportation. And those who cannot hike up operating costs, such as the hordes of boda boda motorcycle taxis, are hardly making anything or operating at a loss. Tax hikes mean those who are employed are taking less money home.