Mara Akụkọ: Africa News Hub

Ikeniile Nexus Ltd

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About this app

Mara Akụkọ is a news aggregator for African news, diaspora news, and world news — bringing the continent and its diaspora into one feed. Discover breaking stories, global news, independent reporting, and perspectives from African, diaspora, and international sources, with trust signals that help you understand what happened, who is reporting it, and where sources agree or differ.

Mara Akụkọ ("know the story" in Igbo) is built for people who want more than headlines. It combines news aggregation with news analysis, source comparison, and transparent trust signals.

ONE NEWS CHANNEL FOR AFRICA & THE DIASPORA

• African news, black news, world news, and global news from Pan-African, African, diaspora, and international sources
• Coverage from across the continent — Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia and beyond
• Follow Politics, Business, Climate, Culture, Sport, Tech, Diaspora and more
• Every article is tagged STORY or OPINION, with its source shown
• A personalized feed built around the topics and regions you choose
• Breaking news and developing stories from multiple sources

NEWS ANALYSIS YOU CAN CHECK

Most news apps ask you to trust them. Mara Akụkọ shows how stories are being reported.

• A trust-tier badge on every article
• Source Balance shows how African, global, and diaspora sources compare
• Cross-source consensus shows how strongly reporting is supported across outlets
• Trust Heatmaps (Premium) help you explore media bias region by region
• See different perspectives instead of relying on a single source

Mara Akụkọ is designed for readers looking for unbiased news — making different perspectives and areas of disagreement easier to see.

START EVERY DAY WITH YOUR DAILY BRIEFING

• Daily Briefing gives you a time-aware overview of the most important stories
• See the Top Story, Perspectives, and what's trending across regions
• Daily Insight (Premium) provides an AI-synthesized deep dive into one major story

READ AFRICAN NEWS IN YOUR LANGUAGE

Automatically translate the app and news stories into 15 languages, including Swahili, French, Arabic, and Portuguese. One tap takes you back to the original.

FOLLOW AFRICAN CREATORS & JOURNALISTS

African creators and independent journalists can publish original reporting directly inside Mara Akụkọ.

• Follow creators and get their work first
• Support the reporting you value — creators keep 80% of every tip
• Transparent creator trust scores

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

• Comment on stories and see how readers across Africa and the diaspora react
• Like, share, and save stories
• Community guidelines help keep conversations constructive

SAVE STORIES. TRACK WHAT MATTERS.

• Save stories to your Library and read them offline
• Smart Alerts (Premium) let you follow topics, regions, and creators and get notified when a story develops

FREE & PREMIUM

The core of Mara Akụkọ is free — including the news aggregator feed, African news and world news coverage, Daily Briefing, trust badges, creator content, and automatic translation.

Premium unlocks Daily Insight, Trust Heatmaps, Source Balance, and Smart Alerts for deeper news analysis and media bias exploration.

Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription with a free trial, billed through Google Play. Manage or cancel anytime through Google Play.

WHY "MARA AKỤKỌ"?

Mara Akụkọ means "know the story" in Igbo.

A griot is West Africa's storyteller, historian, and keeper of memory. Mara Akụkọ gives that tradition modern tools — bringing African news, diaspora news, global news, and independent voices together while helping readers understand the stories behind the headlines.

Whether you're looking for African news, black news, diaspora news, world news, or a news channel with more context, Mara Akụkọ helps you see the story from more than one angle.

Know the story. And who's telling it.

What’s new

Mara now shapes itself around you. A rebuilt welcome flow learns your connection to Africa, your topics, and your places, then the whole app responds: your Daily Briefing opens with "Your stories", Discover recommends what's relevant to you, and every article ends with more worth reading, on the same story, or from the places you follow. Plus: a new "Your interests" editor in Settings, cleaner headlines, and fixes for readers using French and other languages.