In Mali, jihadist groups have taken control of more than half the country since 2012. How has such a fundamental change been possible in a country previously praised by international observers as a bulwark against radical Islam in Africa?…
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South African Airways (SAA) is a bloated and inefficient state-owned enterprise. If the government listened to reason rather than empty rhetoric, SAA could emulate the post-privatization successes of Kenya Airlines.
Like SAA, Kenya Airways was a state enterprise owned by …
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Robert Colvile’s excellent article on Prince Charles’s misunderstanding of the causes of African poverty provides a good opportunity to take a closer look at Africa’s economic history.
African poverty was not caused by colonialism, capitalism or free trade. As I …
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Along with Frederick Douglass, the most famous slave in history was probably Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was an Igbo, though there was no way for him to know that until his own Middle Passage. As an African ethnonym, the word Igbo …
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Sometimes last month, Ethiopia made a bold move in advancing its economic prospects by announcing a visa on arrival policy for any African willing to visit the country. It was an important win for advocates of regional integration, especially for …
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It is important going into this article to specify how the success mentioned in the title is measured. Success is typically seen as a fulfillment of a function, but if Socialism as a system is measured in this way, then …
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The fight against famine in some parts of the world is being lost. This was the sobering verdict delivered earlier this month by United Nations humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock when he was speaking on the humanitarian situation in Yemen. More …
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Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa unsurprisingly fired the head of the South African Revenue Services (SARS), Tom Moyane. This is considered a good move that ordinarily should not raise an eyebrow but the interesting thing about the whole process is …
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Discovery CEO Adrian Gore mentioned at the recent Leadership Summit that there is an element of “declinism” – a pessimism about the state of one’s country – in South Africa, and that it did not accurately represent the situation facing …
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Sometimes last month, the African media space was agog with anti-Chinese rhetorics in response to China’s unexpected but imminent stern body language on debt servicing by its African beneficiaries. Out of all these, the one thing moderates and critics of …
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