All articles in 'Perspectives'


Infrastructure and Prosperity in Africa

It is unwise to generalise in a continent as diverse as Africa. But despite the global economic slow...

16th 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
South Sudan's Media and Acamedia Must Be Proactive

Academics and Journalists can change and shape the trajectory of South Sudan – if the government lis...

28th March 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
The Lies that Black Adults Tell Black Children and...

We tell our children that an afterlife will be better for them than their present life.

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
The Role of Business Champions in Africa

While other regions may breed and encourage WINNERS, Africa MUST encourage CHAMPIONS! It is NOT AN O...

28th April 2016
West Africa Missing Out in Russia’s Tourism Boom

West Africa tourism destinations remain largely untapped for the huge number of potential Russian to...

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
Not Yet Uhuru for Africa

The statement that the recent swearing-in of President Museveni for the fifth consecutive term as le...

15th May 2016
Obama: The Trail Blazing President

President Barrack Obama continues to trail-blaze in American foreign policy where other presidents n...

31st May 2016
Prioritising Capacity Development for Africa&#039...

Capacity building challenges for achieving the objectives and goals of Agenda 2063 are enormous

5th June 2016
Unemployment and Somalia’s Youth

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

14th June 2016
Mindset Change: Key to Africa's Propserity

Our development ought to be informed by what is in our possession and comparative advantage

14th June 2016
What Does Brexit Mean for Africa?

The biggest news item of the past week was Britain voting to cancel its membership to the European U...

28th 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
Operation Thunderbolt: 40 Years After and Israeli...

Prime Minister Netanyahu aims to deepen and expand cooperation with Black African countries

4th July 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
Critique of African Economic Development

Those who control the economic empire are also in a position to frustrate the political aspirations...

17th July 2016
UNCTAD 14: Soft Power Opportunity for Kenya

With a good chunk of the 194 UN-member states represented, there are innumerable possibilities on wh...

19th July 2016
The Role of Green Energy in Achieving Sustainable...

Although Africa has immense renewable energy potential, harnessing the same is still at a nascent st...

25th 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
Socio-Economic Transformation

By mixing both the capitalist and socialist stimuli to the Chinese economy, the Chinese Communist Pa...

15th August 2016
Africa and the Election Farce

If one goes to a list of rigged elections around the world in Wikipedia, South Africa’s 1994 rigged...

22nd 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
Nigeria: A Country Overwhelmed in Self-determinati...

Nigeria as we got it is not working out. It has proved incapable of exploiting the enormous assets o...

4th September 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
In Memory of King Shaka

With the passing of King Senzangakhona ka Jama in 1816, a new chapter opened in the history of the Z...

3rd October 2016
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