All articles in 'Perspectives'


Kenya Risks Being Sold to the Highest Bidder

Corruption benefits competing geopolitical interests. It breeds leaders without focus.

15th March 2016
Africa Is Ready for Business

 Akinwumi A. Adesina Let me restate that the “Africa is rising” story is still alive and...

22nd March 2016
President Zuma Should Give South Africa Hope

Life wins out over and above all our tombs, healing breaks through even the most stubborn grief, hop...

11th April 2016
Are African Universities Ready For Diaspora Academ...

Members of the academic diaspora are dependable ambassadors for universities in Africa in the face o...

10th April 2016
Africa in Geopolitics and Why Nothing is Innocent

What Africa? Africa has thousands of social – economic and political ecosystems. This has made som...

11th April 2016
Kenya State of the Nation Speech

President Uhuru Kenyatta gave a good state of the nation speech in parliament in the face of raucous...

11th April 2016
Africa Must Unite

The brain-washing of Africans about their own potential is today manifest in the failed departure fr...

11th April 2016
Trump Presidency: What Implications for China-Afri...

A Trump Presidency will certainly pursue the strategic goal of dismantling China-Africa strategic pa...

2nd May 2016
Why Africa’s Industrialization is Still a Mirage

One can transplant industries to Africa but not industrialization. The responsibility is on Africans...

3rd May 2016
Culture in Financial Services - A Regulator's...

Trust is important. Consumers need to be confident in the firms that they choose to use, and inevita...

23rd May 2016
Africa in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolut...

The OAU was transformed into our present day African Union (AU) in 2002 in Durban. The leaders of ou...

30th May 2016
Russia: Ignoring the Realities of Business in Afri...

Since Soviet days, Russia has pursued a pragmatic policy aimed at enhancing multidimensional ties wi...

10th June 2016
Unemployment and Somalia’s Youth

The biggest employers in Somalia today are the governmental institutions funded by international don...

14th June 2016
Juba City: Infrastructure, Services and Environmen...

Infrastructure and service provision are failing to keep pace with the expanding town

21st June 2016
Africa-China Cooperation: Taking Stock

The media has an important role to play in publicizing and promoting the investment opportunities in...

21st June 2016
Brexit and the Politics of Micro-Nationalism in Af...

Secessionist groups will argue that just as the people of the United Kingdom have been given the opp...

28th June 2016
What Can Africa Learn From The UK Referendum?

What impresses me the most is the fact that Europeans respect their people and institutions.

28th June 2016
The Brexit Vote: Should Africa Be Concerned?

Our journalists should expend their energies and efforts in the direction of Africa's continent...

4th July 2016
Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Museveni Perspectiv...

Down with terrorism, long live the freedom of all the peoples of the world and justice to all the pe...

7th July 2016
UN Reforms: Towards a Common African Position on A...

For seven decades, we have allowed our voices to be muffled, for seventy years we have accommodated...

19th July 2016
Despite Headwinds, Africa's Economy is Still...

The African Development Bank, in its latest African economic outlook, forecasts economic growth in A...

1st August 2016
Despite Headwinds, Africa's Economy is Still...

African Development Bank, in its latest African economic outlook, forecasts economic The growth in A...

1st August 2016
The Role of Intellectuals in Shaping Leadership in...

Africa can take a quantum leap into the loop of modernity through the genius of its people and the a...

22nd August 2016
Social Effects of Digitalisation

Men can’t leave their phones alone, experiment shows. Women wait twice as long to touch their phones...

23rd August 2016
Russia-Africa Business Ties: Dreams Verses Reality

The "Russian – African Forum" has become an integral part of the program of the exhibition and it is...

29th August 2016
TICAD VI Nairobi Declaration

TICAD continues to play a unique role in the development dialogues on Africa through its innovative,...

29th August 2016
African Youth: Hope of Africa’s Food Security

There is no doubt that Africa has made progress at the policy level and that there have been major d...

12th September 2016
Decisions and Commitments from the 2016 African Gr...

The AGRF once again proved to be a multi-stakeholder forum bringing together a diverse range of infl...

12th September 2016
Loving Your Dark Skin

It makes it hard to build your self-esteem in a world where you are considered “ugly” or “unworthy”...

16th September 2016
Africa's Public Diplomacy and Soft Power Defi...

The sky is the lower limit for Africa in terms of public diplomacy and soft power. But Africa must t...

23rd September 2016
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