July 2, 2026
Every African negotiator arrives at every climate summit holding the same number: four percent — the continent's share of the greenhouse gas…
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Africa’s strongest card at the climate table is also the ledger of its poverty. The way out is not to play the card better, but to build past it.
The IIAG reveals that Africa’s governance gap is not structural but institutional, smaller states succeed by building disciplined systems, while larger underperformers can close the gap by embracing transparency, inclusion, and rule bound institutions.
When, in June 1976, thousands of South African secondary school students marched against the imposition of Afrikaans as a language of instruction in schools,
In many Kenyan communities, a man can pay school fees or chair a school committee without anyone questioning his role in a child’s life. But
In recent years, Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a resurgence of military coups, particularly across the Sahel and parts of West and Central Africa. Countries
In 2019, I boarded a one-way flight from New York to Accra with a simple ambition: help tackle youth unemployment. The scale of the
Being in North East Nigeria, I have learned to read global economics and politics through local realities. One week the price of fertilizer shifts,
Exactly one year ago on May 28th, 2025, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiongo departed this earth. In a manner of scholarship uncommon in the era
The world’s most powerful development institutions recently gathered in Washington for their 2026 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Africa was discussed at great length. Its
The 12th annual Africa CEO Forum was held on May 14–15, 2026, at the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda. The gathering brought together over
Africa’s strongest card at the climate table is also the ledger of its poverty. The way out is not to play the card better, but to build past it.
The IIAG reveals that Africa’s governance gap is not structural but institutional, smaller states succeed by building disciplined systems, while larger underperformers can close the gap by embracing transparency, inclusion, and rule bound institutions.
When, in June 1976, thousands of South African secondary school students marched against the imposition of Afrikaans as a language of instruction in schools,
In many Kenyan communities, a man can pay school fees or chair a school committee without anyone questioning his role in a child’s life. But
In recent years, Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a resurgence of military coups, particularly across the Sahel and parts of West and Central Africa. Countries
In 2019, I boarded a one-way flight from New York to Accra with a simple ambition: help tackle youth unemployment. The scale of the
Being in North East Nigeria, I have learned to read global economics and politics through local realities. One week the price of fertilizer shifts,
Exactly one year ago on May 28th, 2025, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiongo departed this earth. In a manner of scholarship uncommon in the era
The world’s most powerful development institutions recently gathered in Washington for their 2026 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings. Africa was discussed at great length. Its
The 12th annual Africa CEO Forum was held on May 14–15, 2026, at the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda. The gathering brought together over
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Part of the problem facing Africa is that the agency to articulate the trials and tribulations of Africans has for long been usurped by foreigners. As a principle, everyone should get involved in debates on Africa, of course. However, rather than Read more