This article was written for The Guardian How regurgitating stereotypes and prejudice about Africa easily gets you audience in Western media So I chanced upon an article by a one Patience Akumu (`Why Obama doesn’t understand the lust for power of our African leaders’, The Guardian UK, Aug.2). To Akumu, …
Read More »Africa can be redeemed by its people
By Agnes E. Nantaba Elly Twineyo Kamugisha is the Executive Director of Uganda Exports Promotion Board (UEPB). He spoke to Agnes E. Nantaba about private sector led development and the economy. Any three things we don’t know about you? I love Uganda; I have always told people around me to …
Read More »Africa’s demographics not time bomb
By Ghada Hammouda But only if its yieldable socio-economic power can be harnessed by the government and private sector While advanced economies are facing the problem of an aging population, one of Africa’s most attractive assets both domestically and internationally is that it holds the world’s largest youth demographic. To …
Read More »Why Africa should leverage her strength
By Andrew M. Mwenda Our continent needs to focus on its positive attributes and use those to inspire future generations The definitive clash of wills during the Second World War that paved the way for the defeat of Nazi Germany was the battle of Stalingrad. Soviet leader Josef Stalin had …
Read More »Rethinking institutions in Africa
By Andrew M. Mwenda Why poor countries may need a more activist president, one willing to intervene to get them to work Let me do what the Germans call Gedanken (a thought experiment). Political power in most of post-colonial Africa has tended to be personalised. We feel that this is …
Read More »Inside Africa’s major contradiction
By Andrew M. Mwenda Why African elites sound angry and frustrated though continent’s economies grow faster than rest of the world Over the last decade and a half, Sub Sahara African economies have been growing fast and creating prosperity for many. Today, our continent is exporting and importing more and …
Read More »Succession and instability in Africa
By Prof. Morris Ogenga-Latigo Lessons from the trees: even the jungle has rules Although I could have spoken on the very first day when I first entered Uganda’s Parliament in 2001, I did not make my maiden speech until after two months. Instead, being an ecologist, I spent time marvelling …
Read More »`Wonderful things happen in Africa’
By Kavuma-Kaggwa Former President Idi Amin Dada’s words fit perfectly into the behaviours of African president kicked out of power African countries started to achieve Independence from European colonialists in 1960 although Ghana, in West Africa gained Independence on March 6, 1957. Many wonderful things have happened in Africa since …
Read More »Africa’s immunity controversy
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Systems must be put in place to ensure political accountability and minimize double standards The decision by the African Union (AU), after more than five years of preparation, to confer jurisdiction over international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, on the African …
Read More »Africa’s inclusive growth potential
By Viswanathan Shankar Despite new prosperity, people in Sub-Saharan Africa who live in extreme poverty increased by 40% Euphoria abounds in much of Africa nowadays, and rightly so. Seven of the world’s ten fastest-growing countries are there. Recognising the potential and importance of the continent, US President Barack Obama is …
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