Analyst examining the trends and insider data shaping investment, enterprise, and development across Africa.
Senegal lit up Africa's hopes when they won 2-1 against a stubborn Poland that had proved to provide some sort of intransigence. Poland looked uninspiring for the longest time, and a hint of luck aided the tenacity of the Lions of Teranga in handing Poland a well-deserved defeat.
The economy is taking a nosedive. Prices of main export commodities are falling due to global macroeconomic shocks. Inflation is high – youth unemployment is heightening – purchasing power is low – real wage of civil servants is being highly impacted by inflation – poverty has rendered our people hopeless. In this 21st century,
Tension is building in Namibia over the apparent delay tactics employed by Germany as regards talks about an apology and reparations for the genocide of its indigenous Herero and Nama. It has been three years since the talks commenced, but the inaction from Germany is making tempers flare in the
On the 19th of February, the media were filled with reports of how Boko Haram insurgents invaded an all girls boarding school in Dapchi, a town in Northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe State, capturing 110 girls in the wake of the attack. The attack in Dapchi brought back memories of the
I was sitting in the meeting room of one of my clients. We were going through a laborious invitation to tender process, perfecting the edges of each single documents included in a commercial offer that was to be submitted to a major manufacturing corporation. The review was carried with the
After the Hirak of the Rif and that of Zagora and lately the one of Jerada, the needy of Morocco resort to another form of civilian resistance to fight those who, literally “own the country,” and, ultimately, hit them where it hurts the most: their businesses, pockets, gains and political
Of the menaces to afflict humanity, poverty is simply a huge indictment on the dignity of a human being. It pushes one to do that which may be abhorrent, that which society may label as a non-starter completely. But it's poverty, that is what it does, it forces
By Moses Uneh Yahmia In life, as in history, it has been proven that there can be no objectivity in the rendering of historical verdicts. Historians analyze historical accounts based on their own class interest. For example, American bourgeois historians will never heroically record the role of Brother George Lester
It is not figurative. Africa is really splitting up but it has little to do with the crack discovered in Kenya. Face 2 Face reports that, "After heavy rains and seismic activities on Monday, the earth has split open at Kenya’s Rift Valley leaving a huge tear that
On the 1st of July 2017 some 100 Youth from 19 African Countries gathered at Kenyatta University holding conversations on Peace and Development. Almost a year to the date, the Group has successfully convened elections for an Executive Committee which will manage the workings of the Continental Network. The Nairobi
In this second edition of our series “The Red Rooster from Ducor”, we are spotlighting: 1. Foreign Missions and Embassies of Liberia 2. The arbitrary arrest and despotic imprisonment of Central Bank employee Alfred Cheeks. The Rooster’s Crow: 1. Foreign Missions and Embassies of Liberia Liberia has spent over
The Africa Continental Free Trade Area could potentially become the most important agreement African leaders have ever come up with. With a market of 1.2 billion people and a combined GDP of $2 trillion, the trade area is poised to become a prime exhibit of the value that integration
Very much like what happened with Somalia many decades ago, after the overthrow of its dictator Siad Barre in 1991, Libya is free from Qaddafi and his family but gripped with chaos, lawlessness and instability to the extent that one wonders if the country still exists as such or is
The ignorant would be forgiven for thinking China is a country between Burundi and Rwanda. China's economic success has been at the expense of democracy and leadership renewal is the latest sacrificial lamb slaughtered on the altar of economic development. This is dangerous. It is very dangerous because
It is a simple matter that Marvel outdid themselves with the cinematic production of the highly-acclaimed superhero movie Black Panther. With its Afrocentric theme, the movie has received a wide reception worldwide, and it continues to break records in the movie industry. Black Panther is now the 10th highest-grossing film
Pressure continues to mount on the beleaguered South African president Jacob Zuma to step down as the president of the country. In December last year, he was replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa as the party president of the African National Congress. This alone has made calls for his resignation as state
