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Kagame: Ravaging DR Congo?

It is critical to take interest in Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s critical challenge dealing with t...

6th February 2012
DfID Aid Castigated

UK aid is supporting a series of corrupt African governments, is impossible to audit, causing inflat...

7th February 2012
India-Africa Hydrocarbons Linkage

Today, more than one-fifth of India’s crude oil imports are from Africa, with the major suppliers be...

14th February 2012
Ghana: Review and Re-Negotiation of Stability and...

Ordinary Ghanaians are expressing concerns and reservations about the social and economic benefits t...

14th February 2012
Nigeria: Is Wake Keeping a 'Fleecing' Business?

Igbo-Nigerians in US, unduly impose on others with unwarranted expectation in times of death.

14th February 2012
China 2012 – The Fall of The Chinese Miracle

The crash of "the Chinese model" is only a matter of time, keeping in mind the dynamics of economic...

14th February 2012
Africa: Are Rip-offs Paying Off?

In Africa, stealing public monies is not a crime apparently. Challenging or opposing a president is.

20th February 2012
'Real Estate' or 'False' Estate in Africa?

As long as land conveyance is still the preserve of local/state and federal government functionaries...

20th February 2012
The London Conference on Somalia: An Act of False...

The Somalis were never consulted with about the scope, nature and intentions of the Conference.

20th February 2012
Ghana: Alfred Woyome and Corruption

It appears the NDC has quickly forgotten its roots and is now embroiled in a US$40 million corruptio...

21st February 2012
Africa Needs to Sign a New Social Contract

Academics must pull Africa from the 14th Century to 21st Century by advocating the signing of a new...

27th February 2012
Education: Has Africa Missed the Point?

Learning is appreciated and better recognized when it has relevance to one's current situation or of...

27th February 2012
Nigeria: Operation Adopt A Looter

Regardless of how much growth our national economy is showing on paper, a country that cannibalizes...

27th February 2012
Ghana: The Tribal Support of Gargantuan Crimes

The Tongu chiefs’ visit is backward and undermines Ghana’s multi-ethnicity, especially in 2012, wher...

27th February 2012
Bungled Corruption Trials in Nigeria

Nigeria’s full market of corrupt criminals should have made EFCC busier than the New York Stock Exch...

5th March 2012
Africa: Why Rear Views are Counterproductive

I have no idea what MLK would do were he alive today. He probably would have been overwhelmed by cha...

5th March 2012
Bankrupt Britain: What Lessons Can be Drawn?

That the UK has been broke for quite some time helps explain why former British premier Tony Blair a...

5th March 2012
Inexcusable Corruption in Black Africa

The World Bank and the 'World Bank Group' whose President is Robert Zoelick are literally working to...

5th March 2012
The Black Man’s Burden

Driving global economic growth abroad, whilst benefiting little at home is the “black man's burden.”

5th March 2012
Wade: Will He Make It?

Let Senegalese make it possible for Wade to pack and hit the road to oblivion.Will the opposition go...

5th March 2012
Africa and Africans in the Diaspora: Time for Acti...

Africans in the Diaspora must do for Africa what the Chinese and India Diasporas have done in the re...

7th March 2012
Kikwete: Globetrotting Interrogated

Tanzanians want their president to be tamed and be held accountable for the hard-earned taxpayer mon...

12th March 2012
Governance and Economic Development

Nigeria does not have to wait 230 years to realize it is wasting its resources engaging in non-produ...

12th March 2012
Unlocking Africa’s Potential

Africans themselves (ourselves) are leading the growth in investment across the continent, and displ...

8th March 2012
Decent Work and Dignity for Domestic Workers

In many countries such as Brazil or South Africa, domestic work is the most important source of wome...

9th March 2012
Kony and Obama's Intrigues amongst Africans and Af...

This century America will look to cart three Cs out of Africa: Crude, Capital and China

19th March 2012
China Captures Africa from the West

The US remains by far the greatest world power today. However China is progressively chipping away a...

19th March 2012
Uganda and the Paradox of Plenty

With proven reserves of 2.5 billion barrels of oil so far confirmed in the Albertine Rift exploratio...

19th March 2012
Corruption: Virtue or Vice?

Corruption can spur positive results in terms of economic and political development.

23rd March 2012
Africa - China Relations: Africa Must Tread Carefu...

As much as China has presented a window of opportunities to Africa, its increasing influence is ass...

23rd March 2012
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