All articles in 'Development'


Media in Search of Compass

Worldwide, journalists continue to risk their lives in the pursuit of truth, in the interests of the...

28th March 2006
Museveni: The West is Wasting Africa’s Time

There has been a debate about aid and trade. I have repeatedly stated that aid cannot develop a coun...

28th March 2006
African Leaders: Your Days are Numbered

Other people and nations have their ideas about what we should be doing, where we should be heading...

4th April 2006
The Thinking Dearth in Africa

African leaders should think afresh about the place of our continent in a rapidly globalising world....

4th April 2006
Reversing Permanent Backwardness

Permanent Secretaries, for instance, are ‘Permanent Nothing’! If you are a permanent Secretary, what...

4th April 2006
Reversing Permanent Backwardness

When the human resource is not developed, it will be stuck; but in the end it may mean slavery, or w...

11th April 2006
DFID: Citizens Must trouble Their Governments

Citizens have a right to know why they are paying taxes; how much they have to pay; what to expect;...

11th April 2006
Western Intellectuals Killing the African Dream

African intellectuals are a big let down. When will they independently scrutinize some of these so-c...

11th April 2006
Subsidies: Put US Under Pressure!

The whole of Africa is waiting in anticipation for deliberations that will yield positive results in...

17th April 2006
Trade: EU Shortchanging Africa

Africa has a right to insist that an outcome of the Doha Round negotiations that does not take adequ...

17th April 2006
Learning from Childhood Dreams

The developed world views its people, irrespective of age, as an investment without which they can f...

19th December 2006
Africa Reaping Dividends from Privatization

Countries have abolished or significantly reduced requirements for government participation in busin...

20th December 2006
The Land and Labour Dilemmas

Ownership is not a relation between a person and a thing. It is a relation between a person and a pe...

20th December 2006
Is Africa Passing on Poverty as a Legacy?

Ever wondered why politicians ride on people’s backs, plunder and squander wealth while their poor s...

2nd January 2007
The Private Sector: Key to Meeting Millennium Deve...

If current trends continue, Africa is most unlikely to meet the targets. There is considerable scope...

2nd January 2007
Sino-African Ties Vital for Africa’s Growth

Against the background of the widening gap between North and South and the unabated rise of global t...

9th January 2007
Youth Dynamism Should be Tapped

Effective youth entrepreneurship education prepares young people to be responsible, enterprising, pa...

9th January 2007
Public Higher Education in Crisis

It has not only failed to respond to the aspirations of the people, sustain an acceptable standard o...

9th January 2007
Neglected Values: Recipes for Growth in Africa

Nothing thrives in a value vacuum – not even profit inspired trade. Africa is lagging behind economi...

9th January 2007
China- Africa Ties Rattle the West

The China-Africa cooperation has given Africa more expansive room to diversify its contact with the...

16th January 2007
Ride On! Oprah Winfrey!

Africa needs cheerleaders, and Oprah Winfrey has taken the lead. Negative public perceptions of the...

17th January 2007
Oil Curse: More Tact than Emotion Required

Africa needs informed people. How do you deal with an enemy who you do not understand? How do you de...

23rd January 2007
Are Bankers Holding Countries Hostage?

A Quantum shift in the way we perceive, generate and use money has a lot of answers to the poverty s...

23rd January 2007
Africa Does Not Need CDC/Citigroup Funds

Africa does not require the $200 from Europe. What Europe should do is to open up its countries for...

30th January 2007
Another Africa is Possible!

If we built Europe and America without wages; how can we succumb to modern evils of economic dispari...

6th February 2007
Which Way for Youth Empowerment?

True empowerment is more than bequeathing millions of shillings to the youth. It is the removal of b...

6th February 2007
Africa: Glory of the Past, Hope for the Future

Why is Africa being dismissed from history? Why is little mention of African achievements done? A gr...

13th February 2007
The Third Partition of Africa

Surely, China, India, Brazil and the West, share one thing in common: hypocrisy!

13th February 2007
Big Governments Restrain Wealth Creation

Africans themselves are responsible for perpetuating a system of government that is entirely unsuita...

27th February 2007
Peace and Development: Which Way for Africa?

If Africa’s capacity for peace operations is to be increased with efficacy, more attention needs to...

27th February 2007
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African Perceptions of the Eur...