Category: Africa
From Nobel Peace Prize to Civil War: How Ethiopia’s Leader Beguiled the World
Tom Gardner in The Guardian: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about Abiy Ahmed.” The…
Why No One Will Save Sudan
Cameron Hudson in Persuasion: History is repeating itself in Sudan. Tensions between rival security factions,…
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s…
Nigeria: ‘Corrupt Leaders Have No Tribe But United By Common Greed’
By Greenbarge Reporters: Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukayode, has…
Wednesday Poem: Images of Africa at Century’s End
By Ama Ata Aidoo @ Poetry Foundation: Who was it saidthe reason whyyou never seeBlack…
Climate Change Requires Private Sector Financial Firepower
And these efforts cannot be simply country-based. They must be geared to achieve global goals…
Tinubu: Illegal Mining is Major Cause Of Terrorism
By Greenbarge Reporters: President Bola Tinubu has identified illegal mining as one of the major…
The Enduring Pain of Postcolonial Trauma
Farah Abdessamad at Aeon: In 1952, the 27-year-old Frantz Fanon had just published his first…
Byzantine Regained
Jerry Saltz at Vulture: In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division…
The Unique Life Philosophy of Abdi, Born in Somalia, Living in the Netherlands
at Aeon: When viewers are introduced to Abdiwahab Ali, the main character in the short…
The Doctor Who Saw Colonialism as a Sickness
‘The Rebel’s Clinic,’ by Adam Shatz, is an engrossing biography of the psychiatrist, philosopher and…
Ghana, you were doing so well!
Ghana can’t afford to play the game of borrow-and-bailout…Africa needs a development leader By Noah…