It’s uncanny reading the article below side by side with the one written exactly 10 years ago (HERE)
It looks like the Economist, the world leader in Afro-pessimism is finally turning around and seeing the facts …

Even for those of us who have seen a great deal in our long lives, the popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East have been exciting and inspiring. They underlined that people, whatever …

Tax havens have been blamed (and lauded in some quarters) for many things. But a new book that is causing quite a stir says they are a key reason behind African poverty and underdevelopment.
“Treasure Islands: …

So far there hasn’t been much political fallout in the rest of Africa from the revolts in the northernmost states.
Of course there are lots of differences between sub-Saharan African countries themselves let alone …

“This is an African solution to an African problem,” was African Union chief Jean Ping’s reasoning for another round of negotiations to resolve Ivory Coast’s bitter leadership dispute.
Regional leaders and the outside world …

In the FT:
It has taken just six weeks for the arrest of a fruit-and-vegetable seller in Tunisia to spark a chain of events that now threatens to topple the government of Egypt. Watching …

DOHA, QATAR — When Patrick Awuah left his native Ghana in 1985 to study abroad, he had little notion of the opportunities that would await him back home 13 years later.
More than a decade of …

Any keen follower of African politics would realise that there is the gradual change over of presidency from fathers to sons. Another infuriating pattern is the constitutionalisation of autocracy. The latter has …

The birth of a new state is always dangerous. New borders tend to be settled by violence.
Today, voting begins in a referendum on independence for the southern part of Sudan. The poll, generally expected …

There’s a fascinating (and rather beautiful) map of facebook connections around the world, which you can find here.
No surprise that looking at Africa, large areas are blank – there aren’t many facebook users in …