 Ugo/YouTube screenshot 🇳🇬 A new documentary titled “Ugo: A Homecoming Story” explores the life of Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo, the Greek-Nigerian NBA superstar. The documentary, released in partnership with WhatsApp, captures the essence of family ties, cultural exploration, and the quest for personal identity. It follows Antetokounmpo on his first-ever trip to Nigeria joined by his mother, who left the country for Greece 35 years ago. 🇿🇲 Zambia’s first all-women anti-poaching unit locally referred to as Kufadza — which means to “inspire” — is changing the face of conservation by taking up roles that traditionally belonged to men, Isabel Choat writes for The Guardian. The female officers are protecting threatened species in the Lower Zambezi national park. 🇰🇪 The Kenyan government is making economic changes at the behest of the IMF and the World Bank, akin to implementing structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and 1990s, writes Mwangi Githahu in The Elephant. The outcome, Githahu notes, will likely be as it was decades earlier when such programs pushed the country into a decade of pain and darkness. The implementation was linked to “the high rate of income inequality, inflation, unemployment, and retrenchments,” which lowered the living standards, and led to an increased crime rate. 🇿🇦 South African computer scientists are deploying computer vision tools and satellite images to analyze the impact of racial segregation on housing, Abdullahi Tsanni writes in Technology Review. Researchers at the nonprofit Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) collected millions of satellite images of all nine provinces in South Africa, and geospatial data from the government that shows buildings across the country. They used the data to train machine-learning models and build an AI system that can label specific areas as wealthy, non-wealthy, non-residential, or vacant land. 🇧🇫 In Burkina Faso, the production of local chicken popularly known as “bicycle chicken” has declined in recent years and is swiftly being replaced by imported broiler chickens, which are not only larger and meatier but also sold at a lower cost, Faïshal Ouédraogo writes for WorldCrunch. Ouédraogo notes that the local chicken was for a long time the consumer’s first choice, but its popularity declined due to the high cost and longer time needed to rear it compared to the imported breed. |
