All articles in 'Perspectives'


Together, We Can Light Up and Power Africa

Together, we can light up and power Africa. Let us hear the voices of the 645 million Africans witho...

25th January 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
Africa is Outgrowing the Object of Pity Condition

Africa is getting out of the pitiable condition that underlined negative stereotypes about the conti...

27th June 2016
Africa Must Rethink Extremism and Radicalization

Africa is not about goals and objectives; dealing with Africa involves a commitment towards the Afri...

29th August 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
Juba City: Infrastructure, Services and Environmen...

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

21st June 2016
Local Grassroots Prosperity is World’s Prosp...

There is no single country in the world today that is powerful, smart or moral enough to take care o...

23rd September 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
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
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
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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African Perceptions of the Eur...