Hate speech, hurtful speech, Chris Hart and Penny Sparrow
Following a brief period of goodwill over Christmas and New Year celebrations – where the goodwill was likely just people being distracted rather than...
The land grabs in Africa you don’t hear about
In the ongoing global debate about income and wealth inequality, a little known fact with particular relevance for Africa and with far reaching consequences...
Africa to Obama: Mind your own business
United States President Barack Obama is the most admired foreign leader in Africa because he has ancestral roots in our continent.
This is partly the...
Looking beyond Mugabe
It’s not been a good year for Robert Mugabe. When cameras caught him stumbling down the steps of a podium in February, photographers were forced...
Coming to terms; dealing with Africa’s ‘succession problems’
Back in the summer of 2009, President Barack Obama went to Ghana and gave Africans a lecture about democracy, in which he paid tribute...
France’s changing relationship with Africa: Backyard, backstop or backdoor?
Historically, there have been four drivers behind France’s Africa policy: security, people, business and aid, and the importance of an international ‘voice’. These still...
Burundi electoral quagmire
By Elize Keller
The east African nation of Burundi went to the polls last week in an election marred by violence, media suppression and human...
Africa’s knowledge economy dreams still distant
“I wanted to be here because Africa is on the move,” US president Barack Obama told an energetic crowd at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit...
South Africa, let’s burn the granary
An apt African idiom that expresses overindulgence that leads to ingratitude or myopia loosely goes thus; “I am so full, lets burn the granary”....
Three South African teenage girls create Africa’s first private satellite
As opposed to a group of specialist engineers or inventors handling this project as expected, the creation of Africa’s first private satellite is being...
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