Asian investment into Africa totals billions, but the continent needs to focus less on commodities to keep the cash coming As Africa reduces its reliance on aid as its traditional source of finance, it positions itself...
Africa in Fact
CARTOON: African Union
Imagining and forgetting
The AU’s glossy new headquarters conceals the site’s notorious past as an execution chamber and burial ground for dissidents, vagrants and criminals The concrete skeleton of the new African Union (AU) headquarters...
Democracy hypocrisy
Instead of toppling autocrats across Africa, the AU’s lip service to democracy props them up Critics have long argued that the African Union (AU) supports the authoritarian rule of many of the leaders of its member...
Putting the US first, at Africa’s expense
US President-elect Donald Trump © George Skidmore, Flickr Donald Trump’s “America first” election posturing gave some insight as to how his administration might handle trade relations with the continent In...
Resourceful consensus
Resource governance is crucial to growth © Helge Fahrnberger A new natural resource governance vision aims to build Africa’s economies through cooperation between the extractives industry and the continent’s other...
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