All articles in 'Perspectives'
African women are benefiting from a formal education and are determined more than ever to create wea...
10th May 2017Inventing Africa’s venture capitalist communities and constructing the capital bridge to Africa’s de...
10th May 2017Africa’s greatest resource is the skills of its people, especially the youth
3rd May 2017It does not make sense to support entrepreneurship and oppose privatisation at the same time. This i...
3rd May 2017The main trouble with Somalia lies with the nature of the postcolonial state and the political cultu...
28th April 2017What is the legal basis and validity for the UK to declare Genocide in South Sudan?
28th April 2017Africa must possess the capacity to lift the cargo it generates, be they dry or wet, if it must qual...
28th April 2017The Tana Forum, one of Africa’s foremost think tanks on peace, security and development, will devote...
27th April 2017Annually, I am invited to fora or gatherings that aim to examine the subject of growth, especially a...
27th April 2017Some 40 years from now, the world will be totally different. We will have driverless flying cars; we...
25th April 2017Some 40 years from now, the world will be totally different. We will have driverless flying cars; we...
22nd April 2017the shareholders of mining companies make a profit, but the local communities are left with water de...
22nd March 2017The electricity deficit in Africa is immense. Today, 645 million people do not have access to electr...
22nd March 2017frica should remember Sobukwe and the victims of the senseless massacre which was carried out today...
22nd March 2017Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat.
15th March 2017Terrorists are celebrating the arrival of the new US president Donald Trump who recently offered the...
8th March 2017Sixty years after those heady days, too many of our people continue to wallow in unacceptable povert...
8th March 2017Current projections indicate that, by 2020, a mere 3% of all IT related jobs will be occupied by wom...
8th March 2017The ideas of Sobukwe, Mothopeng and Tiro must form the kernel of the curriculum of South Africa’s un...
1st March 2017Reckless abandonment of the core values of Ubuntu will only lead us into a clumsy and irresponsible...
1st March 2017Lagos State is the 5th largest economy and fastest growing city in Africa with a population of over...
1st March 2017Western Sahara thus remains the continent’s last colonial outpost, occupied by another African state...
22nd February 2017A predator, “America First” administration may seek to normalize discrimination and deepen structura...
22nd February 2017The majority of AU Member States prefer a diplomat from a less influential state to lead the AU Secr...
15th February 2017Experts at Dakar event point to a significant cause of investment losses, work stoppages and violenc...
15th February 2017Africans should define their role in a globalized world
8th February 2017We have everything needed to succeed. To fail Africa again would therefore be unforgivable.
8th February 2017We, peoples of Africa, have the means and the genius; together, we can fulfill the aspirations of ou...
8th February 2017The youth potential represents both our greatest hope and our most vexing challenge
8th February 2017These times, though full of challenges, also present vast possibilities for Africa to claim her plac...
1st February 2017