Politics
Zambia’s Hichilema: From the boardroom to State House
Hichilema has built strong networks with influential business groups
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Development,Education
Strive Masiyiwa: Joshua Nkomo loved me dearly, I wanted to honour his legacy
Pan-African businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa recounts what inspired him and his wife to start an education...
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Politics
Africa should be outraged by Ethiopia’s crimes in Tigray
Ethiopia is bringing Africa into disrepute and Africans should be outraged. Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are killing and...
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Media,Society
Ghana’s national security ministry ignites old fears after fracas over photos
By Avinash Paliwal Caleb Kudah, a journalist with the Accra-based Citi TV, didn’t expect that an investigation...
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Food,Technology
Time for Africa to change course on GMOs
Africa needs follow the European Union's lead and rethink its approach to genetically engineered crops
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Development,Food
Tobacco is booming, but growers are trapped by debts to greedy merchants
By Farai Mutsaka Zimbabwe’s tobacco is flourishing again. And so are the auctions where premium prices are...
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Analysis
Shaping the ambiance of Zimbabwe’s Constitutionalism
With the three branches of Zimbabwe’s political system, the executive, legislature and judiciary, striving to advance their...
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Culture
Shock as traditional chief orders that Mugabe be exhumed and reburied
A traditional court in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of former president Robert Mugabe should be...
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Development
Climate change and violence in Africa: no time to lose
By Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo and Ottilia Anna Maunganidze In March 2021, the African Union Peace and Security Council...
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Politics
How Jerry Rawlings used democratic structures to legitimise military rule
Paul Emiljanowicz The late Jerry Rawlings led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in...
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Technology
The digital transformation strategy Africa needs
By Victor Harison and Mario Pezzini Many African countries reacted quickly and effectively to mitigate the health and economic...
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Analysis,Health,Opinion
Time to redefine global health
By Fifa Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo, and Gisa Dang* The COVID-19 pandemic is a bleak reminder...
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Opinion,Society
Slow progress for West Africa’s latest counter-terrorism plan
By Sampson Kwarkye More than a year after adopting an action plan to ‘eradicate’ terrorism in West...
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Society
Young fathers in Ghana are expanding the meaning of manhood
By Gloria Abena Ampim As the world works towards the goal of gender equality, it’s widely recognised...
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Health
Global action is the only way to get ahead of Covid-19
By Mark Suzman This week, we learned that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca...
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Food
As a black Ugandan farmer, people ignore my advice on fighting poverty
The mostly white development sector only funds efforts led by more ‘legitimate’ people. We need support from...
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Opinion,Society
Why the international community must stop legitimising despots in Africa
Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are...
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Society
Can Tshisekedi successfully chair the AU while trying to assert his power at home?
Mohamed M Diatta On 6 February, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi will officially...
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Health
Malawi setting up field hospitals to cope with virus surge
Malawi faces a resurgence of COVID-19 that is overwhelming the southern African country where a presidential residence...
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Health
Africa’s scramble to bury virus dead, get vaccines
Shipping containers have become overflow mortuaries for the dead from COVID-19 in South Africa, while some other...
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Leadership,Society
An Africa roadmap for Biden
By Célestin Monga In recent decades, the US-Africa relationship has disappointed both sides. Republican and Democratic US...
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Leadership,Society
President Mnangagwa claimed Zimbabwe was open for business. What’s gone wrong
Henning Melber, University of Pretoria and Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand In November 2017 Zimbabwe’s military...
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Opinion,Society
The legacy of contested elections in Africa
Barely 3 years ago, Zimbabwe held one of its most contentious elections in the history of the...
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Analysis,Society
Half a million young people have disappeared from Rwanda’s stats
For many years, both the Rwandan government and international donors have invested heavily in development programmes aimed...
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Business,Infrastructure
Even in the Covid-19 era, opportunities abound in South Africa’s construction sector
Construction is a proven resilient industry and this is made clear in the various opportunities that are...
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Technology
Charting Africa’s digital future
The outbreak of Covid-19 has underscored the necessity for nations to rethink existing economic models and laid...
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Business
Why Zimbabwe’s economic growth projection is false
Ncube deliberately did not include the number of jobs bled through the Covid-19 national lockdown over the...
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Business
Kenya is moving aggressively to tax digital business. What next?
Digital enterprises can avoid taxes when their activities earn income from multiple countries and when no one...
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Business
Is Africa the new playground for crypto scams and money laundering?
Africa has the smallest crypto currency economy globally, but the market is growing steadily. The legitimate use...
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Development
US decision to delink the dollar from gold still hounding the IMF, South Africa and Africa
Nixon’s decision breached the US’s treaty obligations. But he had little choice.
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