Africa's collective electricity supply is bedevilled by weak legal frameworks and regional rivalry An estimated 580 million Africans lack access to electricity, three quarters of the global total. The International...
Nick Branson
Closing ranks under pressure
Liberation movements: after the war More than any other continent, Africa boasts an abundance of former national liberation movements serving in government. Understanding the history of these organisations,...
Local Content in the Oil and Gas Sector: Will Tanzania follow Nigeria’s lead?
Thick black smoke billows from a pencil-thin chimney at the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Rivers State. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI As in Nigeria, there are concerns in Tanzania...
EDITORIAL: Dispelling the ‘resource curse’
Welcome to the first edition of Africa in Fact for 2018 – and the first to appear on shelves at selected bookstores. The topic is natural resources, which is also one of our core programmes at Good Governance Africa....
EDITORIAL: Africa’s dinosaurs: overstaying their welcome
The role of presidents is currently one of the hottest topics in Africa, hence the theme of this edition of Africa in Fact: “The Presidential Issue”. Nelson Mandela once said, “In my country we go to prison first, and...
From compromise candidate to ‘petty dictator’?
Tanzanian president John Magufuli quickly became power struck once in office Tanzanian president Dr John Pombe Magufuli has an uncanny ability to undermine his own anticorruption crusade through his intolerance of...
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