News

African Newspapers in the Classroom – African Media

• Africa.com
• African Arguments
• African Center for Strategic Studies
• Africa is a Country – a site of media criticism, analysis, and new writing
• All Africa.com (formally Africa News). All Africa.com carries regularly updated news stories, primarily from African presses
• Daily Maverick
• Mail & Guardian
• News Directory -Lists by country all African newspapers which have websites.
• Pambazuka
• Teaching About African Crisis in the K-12 Classroom -Most of the news stories featured in the U.S. and western press focus on crises in Africa . At Exploring Africa we are dedicated to helping educators and students obtain a more balanced perspective on Africa . However, we do not suggest that educators and students ignore crises in Africa , but that they address these crises through a more thorough, balanced, and nuanced investigation than the western press normally offers its readers and viewers. We offer the following suggestions for investigating and addressing African crises in your classrooms.
• American Media:
  • New York Times
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • The Washington Post
• Other Media on Africa
  • BBC
    The BBC Africa Desk offers print versions of stories carried by the British Broadcasting Service about Africa (updated several times a day).
  • Le Monde
  • IRIN
    Integrated Regional Information Network of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This news service provides daily up-dates from all regions in Africa.

• Sun - Dec 16, 2018: How a South African shepherd found a dinosaur graveyard - BBC News - Africa
  Dumangwe Thyobeka made a huge fossil find as he was tending to his family cemetery in rural South Africa.
• Sat - Dec 15, 2018: Fifa Club World Cup: African champions Esperance lose 3-0 to Al Ain - BBC News - Africa
  African champions Esperance of Tunisia lose 3-0 to home side Al Ain FC in the last eight of the 2018 Fifa Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
• Sat - Dec 15, 2018: Kenya: FGM Season Underway as Residents Devise New Methods of Beating Ban - AllAfrica News: Latest
  [Nation] Practitioners of female genital mutilation have devised new ways of overcoming a government crackdown on the cultural rite of passage.
• Sat - Dec 15, 2018: Libya: Libyan Women Lose Hope in the Revolution - AllAfrica News: Latest
  [Deutsche Welle] The civil war that brought down Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi allowed the country's women to carve out niches for themselves in public life. Now they are being squeezed out and even killed.
• Sat - Dec 15, 2018: South Africa: Dead Sailor Whose Yacht Washed Ashore in KZN Identified As French National - AllAfrica News: Latest
  [News24Wire] A dead sailor, found aboard a yacht that washed ashore at a beach in Southbroom on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Saturday, has been identified, provincial police have confirmed.