Pride can persuade someone to make a first purchase. Quality and care are what bring them back. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL Basket weaving in Rwanda, 2017. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Masako Kato / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. Photo and thumbnail adaptations remain under this […]
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The opportunity you cannot afford to open
A job application can be free to submit and expensive to reach. That difference decides who gets a chance. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL A participant using a phone at a Wikimania watch party in Kenya, 2022. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Queen Asali / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails […]
A connection is not enough. Keep the lights on.
The promise of electricity is what people can do with it tomorrow—not only the photograph of a switch being turned on. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL Solar panels photographed for Innovation Africa, 2025. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: IAfrica76 / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. Photo and thumbnail […]
Give the city back its hours
The cost of a city is also the time it takes from the people who keep it working. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL A Casablanca Busway vehicle photographed in 2023, before the service’s launch. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Turdyfirst / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. Photo […]
Our stories deserve an audience at home
Foreign applause can open doors. It should not be the only way a filmmaker reaches the people inside the story. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL Behind the scenes of the Nigerian film Golden Sword, 2014. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Chinedum55 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. […]
Support women’s football after the trophy
National pride lasts a weekend. A football career needs support through the season. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL Morocco’s women’s team before an Olympic qualifier against Zambia, 9 April 2024. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Mohammed Ayman Nechchad / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. Photo and thumbnail […]
Africa should not feel foreign at its own borders
Unity becomes real at a visa counter, a departure gate and the point where an ordinary journey becomes unaffordable. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2010. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Vob08 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. Photo and thumbnail […]
What happens when AI cannot hear you?
Being misunderstood by a machine is a small irritation—until the machine is the doorway to a service you need. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL Students learning with a laptop in Ghana’s Oti Region, 2024. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Kwameghana (Bright Kwame Ayisi) / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be […]
The world is dancing. Who gets paid?
A song can cross a border in seconds. The money can take a much less direct route. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL A Ugandan musician performing at Bayimba, 2017. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Museruka Emmanuel / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage thumbnails may be cropped. Photo and thumbnail adaptations remain […]
How much harder must a young African work?
A rejected application costs more than hope. It costs time, transport, data and another explanation to the people waiting for you to succeed. OPINION · THE DAILY PULSE EDITORIAL A tailor making a leather bag in Soumbedioun, Senegal, March 2024. Illustrative archive photograph. Photo: Wuzyprod / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized; homepage […]
