June 20, 2019
June 20, 2019
June 20, 2019
AL Writing Fellows
AL Writing Fellows
AL Writing Fellows
June 18, 2019
June 18, 2019
June 18, 2019
Economics
Economics
Economics
June 1, 2019
June 1, 2019
June 1, 2019
Voice of Liberty
Voice of Liberty
Voice of Liberty
June 5, 2019
June 5, 2019
June 5, 2019
Africa Rising with Ibrahim Anoba
Africa Rising with Ibrahim Anoba
Africa Rising with Ibrahim Anoba
June 5, 2019
June 5, 2019
June 5, 2019
Africa Rising with Ibrahim Anoba
Africa Rising with Ibrahim Anoba
Africa Rising with Ibrahim Anoba
Since its release in March 2019, BET International Best Act, Burna Boy’s song, Dangote, has continued to record impressive playtime in Nigeria. The song was inspired by the personality of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Dangote is …
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Access to more data is vital for economic growth and education. Young people spend more and more time on mobile devices—the fewer regulations and the more competition we have in South Africa, the more they will be enabled to access …
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The recent protest by officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) over unpaid six-year promotion arrears has unfortunately brought the badly run prisons system into the news again. Prisons across the country are ravaged and congested, with up to three-quarters…
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By hanging the fate of South Africa on the shoulders of people like Cyril Ramaphosa and Busisiwe Mkhwebane, we are setting ourselves up for failure. Only reinvigorated institutions that do not depend on the whims of political personalities can arrest …
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Nigeria and Liberia are on the path to tyranny. Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission recently suspended the broadcast rights of privately-owned media outlet, DAAR Communications and its subsidiaries, Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Ray Power FM. In neighboring Liberia, the government …
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Nigeria’s Otigba Computer Village is arguably the biggest information, communications technology (ICT) market in Africa. It started off as a one-man business on a street called “Otigba” in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State. Within a short time, it grew …
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During the recent 7th annual conference of the Renewable Energy Solutions for Africa Foundation in Ethiopia, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vera Songwe, gave an all too familiar advise when she said the continent needs to …
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A small group of naïve billionaires in the United States are lining up begging for higher taxes on the super-rich. I say naïve because they itemize a whole list of problems they imagine can be solved with this additional tax. …
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The crackdown on internet fraudsters by the Nigerian government is in the news again after the controversy surrounding the prosecution of singer, Afeez Fashola (also known as Naira Marley) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Fashola is facing …
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The most important price in an economy is the exchange rate between the local currency and the world’s reserve currency — the U.S. dollar. As long as there is an active black‐market (read: free market) for currency and the data …
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