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POST-COLONIAL AFRICA IS ENTERING A NEW PHASE historically, socio-politically and economically. Many events unfolding in recent times bear eloquent witness to this fact. Countries within the continent are faced with existential challenges such as food security, social security, economic security, climate change and health challenges. Almost all of these challenges are traceable to bad leadership, […]

MANY EVENTS ARE UNFOLDING FAST. On the global stage, a number of such events are worrisome and are a cause for alarm. Even those considered as happening far away have proven their immediate and long term implications for specific countries and regions. That is where Africa’s possible implosion seems to gain more traction. In the […]

SOME SILVER LININGS MAY actually be showing up around the dark clouds coalescing over Africa’s sky. Depending on some unfolding realities, the continent may be able to weather the storm. If Africa is able to seize on the gathering momentum as well as the opportune moment and sustain a tempo of positive change, some harms […]

SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA has become a region that can no longer be ignored. Disregarding the potential vulnerability of the region over the years has opened the vast area to a variety of assaults – from environmental to social and economic. Now, the region is in serious crisis, one that has many dimensions and requires […]

SLOGANS ARE GOOD when they aim at specific subjects, particularly when the spirit and the letter in the slogans are in full agreement. Beyond that, slogans will forever be incapable of solving any existential problem, especially when not backed with sincere, determined, focused, coherent and consistent actions. The African Union’s (AU’s) campaign on “Silencing the […]

A CASCADE OF EVENTS that may define Africa’s future has started in West Africa. The era of coup d’état has returned. This week, no fewer than nine per cent of African countries are currently under military rule. In less than two years, three democratically elected governments have been truncated, with a replacement by military in […]

THE NEXT TWO WEEKS will be a busy period for the African Union (AU), a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. From the previous weekend to early days of February, leaders within the continent are expected to begin and continue discussions on an array of issues considered to […]

ENERGY TRANSITION AND CLIMATE ACTION will dominate many major global policy and investment discussions in the foreseeable future, particularly in the next decade and a half or even far beyond. The reasons are clear: the world urgently needs to be rescued from self-fulfilling prophecies arising from the massive and unabated technological developments that have held […]

MANY ASPECTS OF EVOLUTION of modern economies have undergone radical and complete transformation so much so that there seems to be little or no relationship between the past and the present. It is a fact, however, that the past laid the foundation for the present even when the changes seem unrelated. The industrialised countries which […]

HISTORIES OF AFRICA’S legendary under-development have many underpinnings in forms of anecdotes, allegories, illustrations, folklores, causes and effects of disruptions to traditions – real and supposed – or blame games over undesirable past experiences. While they all have their various roles in shaping our understanding of Africa’s past, the realities around us clearly show that […]