Africa

Nox the baby owl is helping shed light on the raptor conservation work the Peregrine Fund does in Africa.

An interview with Amber Murrey, author of A Certain Amount of Madness. Published on the 30th anniversary of his assassination, the book illustrates how Thomas Sankara’s legacy continues to provide lessons and hope for decolonisation struggles today.

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in January 2023. An interview with Dipo Faloyin, debut author of Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent. In the book, Faloyin explores the youth-led cultural and political movements that are defining and reimagining Africa on their own terms.Program note: This is the second half of a two-part interview.

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in January 2023. An interview with Dipo Faloyin, debut author of Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent. In the book, Faloyin explores the youth-led cultural and political movements that are defining and reimagining Africa on their own terms.

The country of Rwanda is still recovering from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The country is going through a period of healing and recovery while rebuilding the social and political systems that collapsed during that period.

How does a new nonprofit measure success? How about saving lives? Connecting kids to education, food and healthcare? That's exactly what's happening with the Boda Girls program.

Its was warm and balmy in early June in Idaho, but half a world away one Idaho reporter was freezing cold on the side of an African mountain.

How does a new nonprofit measure success? How about saving lives? Connecting kids to education, food and healthcare? To that end, it’s difficult to imagine a more successful first-year effort than that of the flourishing Boda Girls program.

Idaho Matters takes a trip to South Africa to study giraffes and find out how researchers tell them apart.

Gregory Ripke will be heading to Uganda as the Peace Corps restarts operations after the COVID-19 shutdown.