Infrastructure, institutions, and the systems that make growth possible — or not.
At the mention of Africa, many will hope to hear tales of suffering in Central African Republic, wars in Northern Africa and political instability in Somalia or at the other spectrum, safaris, luxurious hotels, beaches and wildlife in East Africa, or emerging economies and a battle for development. Besides all
After three years of construction, Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa-Djibouti electric railway was on the 5th of October finally set into full swing at its inaugural ceremony. The multibillion dollar investment has breathed life and excitement into Ethiopia and Africa as a whole as it glows with the radiance of a
South Africa, 22 years after shedding apartheid off its identity still has pockets of institutionalised prejudice and disdain for black South Africans. One upmarket former Model C school in South Africa has been swallowed by a racial storm for its prejudicially charged attacks on black hair and natural hairstyles. A
We have betrayed ourselves by running away from our godsend, intrinsic wisdom. “One does not need to know Bernoulli’s Principles of Aerodynamics and Isaac Newton’s laws of motion so as to be able to learn how to put the bicycle, a product of these laws, in motion.” This
You have to feed what is feeding you. One evening, a look at the prevailing implementation mechanics of the parochial, ad hominem, misguided and money-wasting government wealth-creating program in my home country, Uganda, not only left me appalled but inspired me to transmute my anger and rage to a more
Every morning Sheila has to walk more than six kilometers each way to get to and from school. The fifteen-year-old has to depart home early to get to school in time. While many of her friends have dropped out of school, one of the reasons being distance, Sheila is determined
US First Lady Michelle Obama has urged teens in Africa to keep fighting to stay in school. Michelle Obama in the company of her daughters Sasha and Malia, and the girls’ grandmother, Marian Robinson, was speaking in Liberia where she launched her latest Africa visit on Monday. After being received
