The African Exponent

10. Nigeria, Kainji Dam, 760 Megawatts

Nigeria's Kainji Dam sits on the Niger River and was commissioned back in 1968, making it one of the oldest hydroelectric plants on this entire list. It once carried the pride of West Africa's energy ambitions. Turbine issues, sedimentation, and years of underinvestment now keep it running below its original potent...

Here's what's happening, and why it matters way beyond Nigeria.

Aliko Dangote launched the initial public offering of his Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals on Monday, and the numbers are hard to wrap your head around. The company is selling 4.1 billion shares at 525 naira each, about 38 US cents a share...

This P5-grade leadership role represents the African Union's interests at a partner institution's headquarters, coordinating diplomatic engagement, policy dialogue, an...

BRICS leaders met in New Delhi on September 12 and 13 for their 18th annual summit, and after months of internal disagreement, they pulled off something nobody expected. They agreed on a joint statement about the Middle East war.

That's a bigger deal than it sounds. Back in May, BRICS foreign ministers couldn't even get member states Iran, Sau...

Dr. Rediet Abebe commands respect across two of the most selective institutions in American academia, dividing her career between the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds a faculty position in electrical engineering and computer science, and Harvard University, where she made history as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Abebe's work sits ...