By David Stevens This week marks the start of President Obama’s African Leadership Summit. The summit marks an effort to bring African business leaders, heads of state, entrepreneurs, and civil society together with their counterparts in the U.S.’s private and NGO…
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By Ufrieda Ho It’s busy and noisy in the fast food joint not far from the old Hong Kong airport where Mak Yin-ting is sipping a cold red bean drink at a corner table. The noise doesn’t bother the journalist,…
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By Adeyemi Adewole “Average per capita health spending is low in Africa, but higher than in South Asia. Yet South Asia, in general, has better health outcomes. So Africa not only needs more money for health, it also needs more health…
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By George B.N. Ayittey, Ph.D. Despotism and dictatorship did not exist in traditional African political schemes. In fact, the famous British economist, the late Lord Peter Bauer, noted this in his book, “Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in Economics of Development”…
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By George B.N. Ayittey, Ph.D. King Mswati III is Africa’s last absolute monarch of the tiny kingdom of Swaziland, wedged between South Africa and Mozambique. The king lives an extravagant style while his people live in abject poverty. His lavish…
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By Joannes Paulus Yimbesalu As a newly appointed Global Youth Ambassador for A World At School, an initiative launched by the United Nations to forge a movement of young leaders working to improve access to education, I want to call attention…
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By Dr. Gertrude Fester It is an irony of history that in April 1994 while South Africans celebrated their first democratic elections, Rwandans experienced trauma of genocide. At the same time that Nelson Mandela was being inaugurated as South Africa’s…
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