Governance

Just across the border in Mozambique there is neo-colonial exploitation underway. It is not Europe or the United States that are dominating, but rather countries which are often looked up to as challengers, such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Migration is not only a fact of human life: it is arguably part of the human condition. Our history as a species has been driven and shaped by migration, as our ancestors moved out of Africa to all parts of the globe.

Second generation Africans are a group of people who represent an untapped potential and who can play a significant role in ensuring that Africa becomes a major player on the international stage. Today, Africa stands at the precipice of an industrial revolution.

It wasn’t long ago that I sat among other young African diasporas at Brunei Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and attended the launch of African Foundation For Development’s (AFFORD) new initiative, ‘Africa-Gives’.

As the Founder and CEO of Diaspora for African Development (DfAD), an African diaspora-led non-profit organisation that aims to contribute to Africa's sustainable and social economic development through harnessing the potential of the African diaspora for development, I have inevitably put myself

As Africa celebrates this year the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and almost a little more than a decade since the formation of the African Union (AU), Africans will ask themselves to what level the AU and its institutions have succeeded to put the co

Kenyans were rightly outraged when their already well paid legislators asked for a pay rise. Some were louder and more creative in their outrage than others.

Twenty years ago, exactly on June 12, 1993, Nigerians trooped out to vote in an election that has come to be adjudged as the best in the country.

The revolutionary momentum currently making waves in Egypt once again is not primarily a revolt against one man or even one state, but an uprising against conditions which are fast becoming universal features of the current crisis-ridden world economic order: permanent mass unemployment, rampant