Diaspora:-How an African Accent Can Save Your Life In America
By: Paul Omoruyi (Diasporascope) Most Africans in the diaspora would concur with me that when they first immigrated to the United States they wanted to speak, look and swagger like Americans. Eddie Murphy ( Coming-to-America ) This writer was not an exception. Understandably, America is the current world power and an American identity gives some More...
Can Africa’s Lions match Asia’s Tigers?
By: JENNIFER BLANKE AND CAROLINE KO* Recent years have brought a renewed interest in Africa as the next big investment destination given its strong growth and dynamic demographic trends. MIGHTY ROAR: More More...
Africans march upward to economic purgatory.
ANALYSIS By: ADEKEYE ADEBAJO* The great and the good converged on Cape Town recently for the annual three-day World Economic Forum (WEF), Africa’s equivalent of Davos. Security was tight as business and More...
Africa: AU Summit Considers Draft Resolution on Withdrawal From ICC
By:Walter Menya, 24 MAY 2013 The African Union Summit will today consider a draft resolution calling on African states to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. African foreign ministers were expected More...
Africa: The African Union At 50 – Missed Opportunities and Lessons for the Future
By: Yves Niyiragira* OPINION A Post-independent African leaders have failed to realise the aspirations and hopes of self-determination and unity of the African people. There are five basic steps that AU member More...
Africa: AU Coming of Age a Cause for Celebration?
By: Dr Titi. A. Banjoko* OPINION The focus of the next 50 years for the African Union should be to move from being a rigid bureaucracy to an agile organisation, which is able to flex and move at speed in More...
Africa: Development and the Double-Sided Mirror
By: Tunde Jegede* There is a need for a cultural rebirth in Africa as part of the radical economic and social transformation of the continent. A new African consciousness that is free from the chains of ‘colonial’, More...
London’s Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?
By: Brad Evans* Politicians know better than most that words function politically. More than offering some definitive truth to a situation, the use of language conditions what is further possible. An official More...
Farmland – the New “Blood Diamonds” in Sierra Leone?
By: Joan Baxter* (23rd May 2013) For their secret meeting, they’ve chosen a very small village surrounded by forest in Kpaka Chiefdom in southern Sierra Leone. About one hundred men - chiefs, elders More...
Addressing land rights can make social change possible
By: Karol Boudreaux* What elephant lives in your development space? Last week in Cape Town at Grow Africa’s Investment Forum, Rwanda’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, Agnes Kalibata, More...