Economies are growing, émigrés returning and attitudes towards corruption beginning to change. Jonathan Dimbleby reports on a continent in transition .
Again and again, at every level, people told …

A Chatam House report states that:
African countries are playing a more strategic role in inter-national affairs. Global players that understand this and develop greater diplomatic and trade relations with African states will be …

Your vision for Africa’s future is a controversial one. Do you really believe that aid is dead?
If aid were a private-sector business or a political system, it would definitely have gone by …

Zambian-born economist, Dambisa Moyo, talks about her new book, ‘Dead Aid’, and how she believes that stopping the flow of aid to Africa could help the continent escape the cycle of extreme poverty, …

Africa’s information and communication technologies sector is attracting unprecedented levels of private investment, and can help the continent address some of its pressing socioeconomic challenges,  according to Dr Hamadoun Touré, the secretary general of the …

A forthcoming book by a former Harvard researcher says Western interference with Africa’s most successful Aids prevention programme drove up HIV-infection rates and ended a dozen years of the largest decline in …

Cheetah Blog Commentary: Though very pro-Kagame, Michael is hitting the nail on the head. The misunderstanding of the continent and mostly Afro-pessimism are the main causes of the current status quo in many countries. It …

World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Africa Development Indicators, and Global Economic Monitor are now free, open, and easy to access at:
data.worldbank.org
Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group …

I SPENT March with a delegation of activists, entrepreneurs and policy wonks roaming western, southern and eastern Africa trying very hard to listen — always hard for a big-mouthed Irishman. With duct tape over my …

Ghanaian economist at American University, recognized authority on Africa and Economic Development, and author of the influential book Africa Unchained . He has coined the term “the Hippo and Cheetah generations” referring to the old …