All articles in 'Perspectives'


President Xi Jinping Visit and Africa’s Dilemma

President Xi Jinping’s visit should incite all Africans to reflect on the wisdom of Kwame Nkrumah:...

19th March 2013
Oil: How Could Liberians Settle for Only Five Perc...

Liberia has recently discovered oil in commercial quantities but has only 5% share

25th March 2013
“Terra Nullius” Sovereignty in Africa: Kenya's Mil...

Politicization of perceived unresolved injustices has drawn cracks from which the al-Shabaab may fur...

25th March 2013
Ntaganda: Terminator who Terminated Himself

Compared to Nkunda, Ntaganda is but a novice. When will Nkunda be booked and accommodated in The Hag...

25th March 2013
Nigeria: A Declining Regional Power?

Many who have watched Nigeria since the late-1990s are feeling uneasy about her declining status.

29th March 2013
A Win-Win in Infrastructure – The Durban BRICS Sum...

The new world order comes to Durban this week – for the fifth BRICS Summit, and the first in Africa....

26th March 2013
BRICS: A Global Regulatory Factor

Existing global structures, first of all the Bretton Woods institutions, are no longer capable to ad...

26th March 2013
Africa Investment Returns and Growth: Real or Hype...

Why discuss or paint Africa on brush? Be that as it may, it is what it is in Africa. Afr...

29th March 2013
Zimbabwe: Victim of Low Self Esteem?

In what other country would a Shona-speaking mother and a Shona-speaking father produce an English-s...

29th March 2013
Poverty Eradication : The Elusive Dream

                 Graphics courtesyPoverty could be mankind’s biggest modern-day problem....

2nd April 2013
US-Africa Summit: Is US Playing Catch-Up?

The West may be forced by facts, created by the non-West, to change its attitude towards Africa.

25th August 2014
Foreign Capital Delusion: Why SMEs Should Be Cauti...

It helps to raise capital for your business. But the myth that a foreigner will more likely fund you...

26th August 2014
Factors Hindering the African Renaissance

For the leaders of the African Union and Heads of African governments, African renaissance is a perf...

27th August 2014
Women: Creating the Africa We Want

Women make up just over 50% of Africa’s growing population and their under-representation in social,...

1st September 2014
Africa’s Sovereign Debt Rally: Spectacular Footste...

Africa is almost fully out of the donor aid dependency days.Its competitiveness on the global space...

2nd September 2014
Consumptive Politics: Africa's Bane

Arguably, an economy that places productive property in private hands invariably confers great wealt...

8th September 2014
Africa’s Financial Markets: Looming Crisis

Can the Sub-Saharan African states strengthen the macro-economic fundamentals that buffered them aga...

8th September 2014
Role of Information Partners in Policy Influence

The Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research Organization (STIPRO) is a Tanzan...

22nd September 2014
Excuses: Africa's Undoing

If Africans do not respect and carry themselves with dignity, they will never attract respect and or...

22nd September 2014
Rethinking Africa’s Engagement With the World

There is no rule that says Africa has to be poor or dependent. If there is one, Africans should reve...

16th September 2014
Peace in South Sudan is Achievable and Desirable

Signing an agreement is one thing. Fulfilling its requirements is another. The signing o...

16th September 2014
Chasing A Dream: Can it Ruin Career?

When we are growing up, our parents teach us to ‘work hard, get good grades, graduate with first cla...

16th September 2014
Economy Transforming Mindset

We need to start with a conversation about the attitudes required to find solutions and get things d...

23rd September 2014
The Global Business Case of Diversity: An Engineer...

Good Leaders value differences and they use these differences to get rid of statistical (and psychol...

23rd September 2014
How to Make Africans' Dreams Valid: Thought Leader...

Key Outcomes of the 4th IREN Eastern African Thought Leaders Forum on How to Make Africans’ Dreams V...

23rd September 2014
Change: The Inevitable Constant

Time and time again, history has shown us that the changing of a world begins with the power that re...

29th September 2014
Political Irrationality: A Check List

It is axiomatic that the attribute of being rational is what sets humans apart from othe...

29th September 2014
Who is an African?

Are there levels of “African-ness” and are some more African than others? Who allots this African-ne...

30th September 2014
Africa: The Search for Identity

What we have battled with as Africans is to nurture our own African identity and to understand that...

7th October 2014
World Bank Should Give Ubuntu a Chance in Africa

Africa’s indigenous market’s values need reconstruction, refining and repositioning to enable the co...

7th October 2014
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