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The Need to Unleash Africa’s Ideas

David Stevens August 6, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

African Angle, African Leadership Summit, economy, United States

Hong Kong’s Warning Signs for South Africa

Alexandra Boggs July 16, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

Censorship, China, Hong Kong, Investment, South Africa

The Role of Institutions in African Development

Alexandra Boggs June 11, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

African Angle, Environment, Health, Nigeria

The Imported Tradition of African Dictatorship

Alexandra Boggs May 28, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

African Angle, Kings, Monarchy, Swaziland

A Vulgar Caricature of an African King

David Stevens May 14, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

Institutions, King Mswati III, Kings, Monarchy, Mswati, Swaziland, tradition

Education: Africa’s Unfinished Business

David Stevens April 29, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

Cameroon, Education, Gender, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, United Nations

Rwanda & South Africa: Unfinished Journeys

David Stevens April 15, 2014 0 Comments

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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African Angle

Democracy, Gender, Rights, Rwanda, South Africa

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Bringing Data to Africa’s Climate Fight with the ENACTS Approach

The ENACTS Approach, by Dr.Tufa Dinku and his research team at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, outlines a new strategy for getting high quality climate data from low resource environments in Africa.

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