All articles in 'Perspectives'


Michael Sata: Zambia’s Better-Mourned President?

In the coming days, President Sata’s political and economic legacy will be reviewed, without emotion...

17th November 2014
Prosperity: New Global Development Path

To eradicate poverty and to get all countries into the single prestigious category of developed nati...

17th November 2014
Oil And Gas Exploration In Somalia: The Dilemma

Billions of dollars are spent each year in the name of the Somali people with nothing tangible to sh...

17th November 2014
Africa Rising: A Critique

Nevertheless,I think that the last two years have shown why we cannot therefore assume that the cont...

18th November 2014
The UN Must Style Up - Uhuru Kenyatta

The body is antiquated and ill adapted to fulfill its tasks. Some regions of the world do not have r...

18th November 2014
Somalia: Towards a New Legacy

For decades, Somalia was synonymous with pirates, terrorists, and complete lawlessness. But this Som...

24th November 2014
The UN and Africa: Who Should Style Up?

If assets germane to Africa cannot be built by Africans, what makes President Kenyatta think that th...

24th November 2014
Black Sainthood: A Rethink

We should be wary of those who try to ascribe happy endings to history; who spend longer praising th...

25th November 2014
The Poor in Africa Not a Curse

Systems that enhance access to financial and communication services have transformed the way low inc...

25th November 2014
De-Tribalizing the Hakainde Hichilema Presidential...

In historical as well as political parlance, no tribe has dominated politics in Zambia as is often a...

1st December 2014
Oil Dependency: Nigeria Needs Shock Treatment

In the case of Nigeria, with a population of 165 million people, about 4 times the entire GCC region...

1st December 2014
Kenya Security: Radical #OurSecurityOurReform Reco...

The framers of our Constitution provided for a single, integrated, reformed, restructured and credi...

1st December 2014
Entrepreneur: Oh No! Not Another Court Case!

I write this a frustrated business man. Frustrated because just like you and I, you have watched man...

2nd December 2014
Great Lakes Region Conflicts: Actors and Interests

The challenge for peace negotiators, therefore, is how these actors, in their interest, can be persu...

2nd December 2014
Relocating Kenya's Capital City

A motivation for moving central government services to a new location would be the potential for cre...

8th December 2014
Policing Sierra Leone Police

The APC government should re-tame its criminal police force and make it fully law-abiding.

8th December 2014
Real Estate Market in Kenya: A Review

It is not that the real estate is growing, people cannot afford to buy, the only other option is to...

8th December 2014
WTO and Africa Optimism

A recent survey of global public opinion found that it was not the people of Asia or North America w...

8th December 2014
Human Solidarity: Need of the Hour

Poverty is itself a function of social, economic and political exclusion. In short, a lack of human...

8th December 2014
Private Sector Role in Achieving Africa’s Economic...

No Active Indigenous Private Sector, No “Africa Rising,” No Inclusive and Transformative Growth.

9th December 2014
Rising Above the Group Mentality

Martin Luther King did not say ‘WE’ Have a Dream.’ He said, “I HAVE A DREAM.” Where is the ‘I’ in th...

9th December 2014
Migrant Labour: Need for Policy Rethink

Migrant workers are confronted with ruthless exploitation by employers, racism, xenophobia, sexism a...

15th December 2014
Effective Technology for African Entrepreneurs

The current mushrooming of technological innovations and ground breaking discoveries have continued...

15th December 2014
Africa and Bedroom Democracy

Grace Marufu Mugabe is the most influential woman in Zimbabwe now. She’s currently scheming to inher...

15th December 2014
ECOWAS: Looking Ahead

Internally, within the Community Institutions, there is an urgent need for structural reforms in ord...

16th December 2014
Africa: The Continent of Wonders

I have travelled a little bit, to all parts of the World. And I can tell you there is no place which...

20th December 2014
UN-AU Partnership: Progress and Future

Looking ahead to 2015, there will be further challenges for the UN and African Union to surmount tog...

20th December 2014
Zambia Politics: The Beautiful Ones Not Yet Born?

If the opposition front in Zambia were a force to reckon with, one of these two, either Hakiande Hic...

20th December 2014
Oil In Kenya: Can the Middle East Experience be Re...

Many countries sign bad contracts that give a disproportionate share of the resources’ value to priv...

23rd December 2014
Domestic Textile Market Activation in East Africa

Cotton is not only the basic source of income for almost 20 million farmers and their families, but...

20th December 2014
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