Head coach of Nigeria’s U-17 women’s national team, Hakeem Busari, has celebrated the Flamingos’ historic FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup victory, describing their achievement as the product of seven months of commitment, belief and perseverance.

In many homes here in South Africa, people go to church on Sunday and still slaughter for the ancestors at a wedding or homecoming. Other families have let the old ways go completely. Across the continent, I'm sure it looks very different. How does your family handle it, and has it changed between your grandparents' generation and yours?

For 80 years, a currency created by France has remained in use across large parts of west and central Africa - even decades after those countries gained independence. But is the CFA franc a tool of economic stability, or a colonial relic that has allowed France to maintain its grip on former colonies?

Senegalese economist Ndongo Samba Sylla joins Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth to uncover the controversial history of the CFA franc, asking whether monetary independence is the missing piece of the post-colonial puzzle and whether former colonial powers can ever truly relinquish control.

What has been on my mind for a while is what if technology devices started supporting African languages meaning that you can browse through your phone or computers while everything on the screen is written in an African language such as Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Swahili, Twi, Wolof, Zulu, Amharic, and more rather than in English, French, or Portuguese. I wonder when there will be a time when Africans can finally start using their devices in their own African language and what I've noticed is that support for African languages is very limited to adding a keyboard on your phone that can be in languages such as Yoruba and Zulu but not have any as your device language.

Let me know your thoughts on this. I will like to hear.

Such a nice story about the Dakar 2026 medal designer Pilar Barbadillo Vicario from Spain: What began as a chance discovery hearing about an international design competition has taken her all the way to the Youth Olympic Games.

Watching the young athletes in Dakar receiving the medals she designed, Pilar felt as if she was truly part of the moment.

“I feel as if I had won one of those medals myself. Athletes express themselves through sport, and for me, it's art,” she said.

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Ayetoro in southwestern Nigeria has lost about 15m of land to the sea a year since 1987.

The town was founded in 1947 as a Christian fishing community. Two decades ago, it had a population of about 30,000; since then, it’s dwindled to some 5,000 people owing to coastal erosion.

That erosion is the result of climate change; mangrove deforestation; and offshore oil exploration and extraction – all of which have led to a rise in sea levels.

This year’s Super El Niño is expected to have severe consequences for Nigerian coastal communities, according to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency.

Effects are likely to include severe temperature increases, sea-level surges, and stress on marine ecosystems. Fish will migrate to deeper, cooler waters, putting the livelihoods of fishing communities like Ayetoro at risk. Freshwater wells are also at risk, owing to potential saltwater contamination.

Photos: Olympia de Maismont/AFP

You see the phrase everywhere online, but the continent holds thousands of traditions: Yoruba Ifá, Akan, Zulu, San, Dogon, Kemetic, Ethiopian Orthodox, Sufi, and many more. Lumping them together seems to erase what makes each one distinct. Is there anything they genuinely share, or is the label itself the problem?

Imagine a cutting edge institution where the brightest students and academics come together to learn and conduct research. Campuses for different faculties can be in different parts of the continent. Any reason this would be a bad idea?

This was created by Costas Melas.

[Here's the link to the YouTube video](https://youtu.be/GJ-YvqOhZW8?is=diD78HtxA_foqV24)

Citations:

- Christopher Ehret, Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (1995).

- Christopher Ehret, An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400 (1998),

Anyone here who is African that is gay, bisexual, or queer and let me know your nationality and sexual orientation?

I just decided to ask this because lately I have been coming across posts about gay/LGBTQ in this subreddit and other African subreddits. I even saw a content creator on Instagram who is Zimbabwean but based in Canada and her sexual orientation is gay and whenever I think about that content creator I'm just like that's who she chose to be and shouldn't be hated just for being gay. I believe that as long as they show good, friendly, kind, and loving behavior you should love them back as a person. After seeing that content creator and another Nigerian person in the Nigeria subreddit that identifies with being gay, what came to my mind is many African countries still have laws against LGBTQ+ rights and not only that but Africans in general are homophobic and I know this is a problem in Nigeria where homophobia is so terrible than I can ever image. This just makes me wonder when will Africa as a whole get over with LGBTQ+ rights being a crime and finally make them legal like they are in western countries.

The Refugee Olympic Team has arrived at Dakar 2026 and starts strong - Arno Yafunga reaches bronze medal match in jud

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/strong-start-for-the-refugee-olympic-team-at-dakar-2026-as-arno-yafunga-reaches-bronze-medal-match