Ibrahim prize will stay uncollected — for a while None of the African leaders who have left office in the past three years deserve to be considered exceptional role models for leadership on the continent.
One day, blocs will rule, the AU will wither away On Friday, I attended a launch meeting of the Kenya Futurist Group. The founders hope that in years to come, the effort will have led to the rise of a group of futurists with clever tools to...
Through Brics, South Africa will bring a wind of change South Africa has a strategic interest in extending BRICS co-operation to support Africa’s development agenda, particularly by enhancing measures for implementation as well as increasing financial...
Rwanda to join regional intellectual property body Rwanda is set to join a regional intellection property body in order to protect local innovators from imitations.
The quest for nuclear energy in Africa The nuclear disaster that struck Japan last year following a devastating tsunami is still fresh in the world’s memory, but this is not stopping African countries from aspiring to tap into this...
Ah, these ministers! Stage fright? Ignorance? It is Zanzibar, not Zimbabwe The Tanzanian social media is currently abuzz with the performance of a deputy minister (of education, no less) who apparently told a conference in South Africa
How guns and bombs redrew the economic map of East Africa and the Horn A new generation of leaders seemed to have emerged, and Africans dared to hope that things were finally changing
How 'new’ East Africa was born out of the fires In 1986, when Museveni became president, the region was being pulled in two directions
Africa is ripe for the serious investor Standard Chartered forecast Africa’s economy to grow at an average annual rate of 7pc over the next 20 years.
When demigods turn into mortals, expect body bags Last week on Thursday, Uganda went to a very frightening and dark place where it last was probably 35 years ago.
