Franklin Cudjoe

Imani

African Union Day - Time to Let People and Goods Cross Borders

Submitted by e_mawudeku on 1 June, 2011 - 10:12

by Japheth J Omujowa & Franklin Cudjoe

African Union as a phrase in the description of Africa's past and present would only be true as an irony. In essence, Africa has never been united. For the African Union on this occasion of its day, which it has to be said, is not a day set aside to celebrate Africa's unity, but a day to mark the formation of the organisation.

Franklin Cudjoe : Personal view: Rock-star economics are not helping poor Africans

17/04/2005 Telegraph.co.uk

Have you purchased your obligatory white band? Did Sir Bob Geldof send you an e-mail recently, reminding you to ogle his celebrity colleagues "clicking" away on television? Did you join the all-night vigil at Westminster Abbey to shiver in the cold and "wake up the government" about the need to "make poverty history"?

Franklin Cudjoe : Globalization Rocks, but African Leaders Fail to Understand It

Independent Institute, November 7, 2005

Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa will step down this week, complying with his constitutional term limits. He will be the third African leader in recent times to honorably leave office following the departure of Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Jerry Rawlings of my country, Ghana.