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Equating capitalism with colonialism, Africa’s nationalist leaders rejected it and adopted socialism in the 1960s. Foreign companies were nationalized, a string of state-owned enterprises was established and a plethora of state controls on rent, prices, imports, and foreign exchange were …
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The absence of technically organized ideologies in traditional African societies made several historians resolve that pre-colonial Africa had no clear patterns that governed behavior except the unearthing of some ancestral practices. Historians like George Dalton identified the inability of Western …
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In the aftermath of the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), we must resist the slightest extension of what is true and fake. We must resist the temptation to be swept by a social media frenzy fed on ignorance.
A …
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For the first time since the end of colonialism, there are hopes that power can finally be taken from the corrupt old faces and trusted in the hands of vibrant young Africans tired of the rotten status quo. But we …
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It took several years of negotiations for fastjet, a low-cost private airline based in Tanzania, to get the traffic rights to fly between Harare and Bulawayo this July. The flying distance between these two major cities in Zimbabwe is …
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As recently as March 2018, the discussion of neither political reforms nor economic liberalization was inconceivable in the Ethiopian political context. The changes both may have been an internal party decision, particularly after the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front’s (EPRDF’s) …
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Despite the natural resources available and an abundance of tourist sites, Burundi always comes at the back of the pack in the ranking of the tourism sector. This is due to several reasons, including political instability, lack of efficient infrastructure …
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World acclaimed development policy experts, economists and entrepreneurs will converge on Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and commercial nerve centre, to discuss how countries in Africa can collaborate for peace and irreversible economic growth. They will meet at the African …
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