Development
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Rethinking African Higher Learning |
| Africa’s political leaders have to ensure that they act in a manner that truly respects the views of the African intelligentsia with regard to the African Renaissance and the birth of the African Century. The African dream should no longer be a gigantic mirage that shimmers as a false hope on the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert.... |
Q&A
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Food Aid or Food Aids? |
| "There's nothing in anything I've written that says we should let people starve to death, that we shouldn't help people. What I'm saying is that what we're doing isn't helping people, and, in fact, it's hurting people. People are having trouble making that conceptual leap-that helping people is hurting people," says Maren.... |
Regions
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The Poor Now Absorbing Wealth |
| The advantage of solidarity group lending is that neither collateral security nor credit history is a prerequisite to qualify for borrowing. The group members also undertake careful screening of prospective group members and are usually careful to avoid risky, untrustworthy people.... |
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Africa’s Toil with Oil |
| There is at least one southern hemispheric leader who has a full appreciation for oil industry dynamics. What’s more, he has taken direct and dramatic steps to prevent exploitation of the people he leads.... |
Profiles
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History of Swaziland |
| Swaziland, officially known as Kingdom of Swaziland is bordered on the South, West, and North by the Republic of South Africa and on the East by Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Mbabane.... |
Commentary
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When States Turn Criminal |
| The whole governance system is grinding to a halt so that even the good things that Obasanjo's regime is doing are lost in the controversies. He is losing control of the state machinery and is on his way to become a President with no respect for law and order, the constitution, elected institutions in a precipitate slide towards becoming not just an incompetent government but a failed state.... |
Book Review
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A Dirty War in West Africa |
| Sierra Leone, became independent in 1961. From there on her weaknesses dogged her superb strengths, seeing this former “Athens of West Africa” passing through all kinds of leaders, political systems, development paradigms and elites, who, like most African elites, do not understand their country, and in the process blew the country into pieces.... |
Agriculture
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Famine in Africa: No Excuse! |
| To hit targets of high agricultural productivity, we must rethink our farming strategies. Put up water stations for drier areas, embrace better technologies and give farmers more options in the seed market.... |
