Gabriella Opara

1 week ago | okayafrica.com | Gabriella Opara

In a move poised to advance Africa's technological future, Cassava Technologies has joined NVIDIA to establish the continent's first artificial intelligence factory. The March 24 announcement revealed plans to deploy NVIDIA's powerful supercomputer graphics processing units (GPUs ) across five strategic African nations — South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria — marking a decisive step toward digital sovereignty for the continent.

3 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Gabriella Opara

Adwoa Botchey, 27, and Solomon Adebiyi, 28, met for the first time in 2016 at the Chuck Gallery in Manchester. Both were exhibiting their artwork for the African Caribbean Society. While admiring each other's paintings, they discovered a shared passion for mythology but quickly realized their knowledge of African mythology was limited. "We were both very interested in mythology. Growing up in the UK, we only had access to Greek, Norse, and Roman mythology.

3 weeks ago | okayafrica.com | Gabriella Opara

A prisons officer walks past empty stalls as Zimbabweans stay away from school and work with most shops closed in the central business district in Harare on March 31, 2025. Despite calls for protests by Zimbabwe opposition leader and war veteran Blessed Geza, who has critiqued the current president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, many Zimbabweans chose to stay home instead, leaving the streets deserted. In anticipation of crowds of protesters, President Emmerson Mnangagwadeployed police in Harare.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Gabriella Opara

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Gabriella Opara

Joy Ebaide was riding her motorbike along a deserted dirt road in rural Tanzania when a black mamba, Africa’s deadliest snake, lunged at her. “It was about two inches away from me, and that’s an experience I’ll never forget,” she says. Encountering a highly venomous snake was a heart-stopping moment, but it did not put her off travelling. If anything, it made her more determined, and left her feeling that “impossible is nothing”.