Democracy & Governance

Agenda 2063, the African Union’s long-term vision and blueprint for transformation, identifies infrastructure development as one among a few key pillars for Africa’s economic prosperity and sustainable development.

Studies by Food and Agriculture Organisation continue to show that agriculture could be the gateway to poverty elimination and attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa.

2015 was an exciting year for global and African development priorities in terms of innovation and re-invention. Pivotal international summits took place that focused on defining goals and targets for the global sustainable development agenda in the post-Millennium Development Goals (MDG) era.

Beco (not her real name) is a 15-year-old girl. She is still in her first year in secondary school, despite her advanced age compared to her classmates.

The year 2015 saw three international summits, from which emerged an overarching framework for ensuring global sustainable development in the post-MDGs era, and agreement on mechanisms for financing the efforts towards attainment of the goals and targets therein.  

1. Sunday 12 June 2016: Chronicle of bursts, booms, flashes, murders: islamist terrorist outrage in the United States ravages night club in Orlando, Florida, beginning at about 2am, murdering 49 clubgoers and wounding scores and scores and scores – several critic

Few revolutionaries are as well known as the late and great Ernesto "Che" Guevara. In fact, in what is the most ironic bastardization of his legacy, the communist leader’s iconic image is plastered on to T-shirts, posters and other mass-produced memorabilia and sold worldwide.

Mr. Micawber is a character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield who is always in debt and frequently responds that "something will turn up". Maputo feels like that at the moment.

On May 31, my good friend Chido Onumah made a public presentation of his book, We Are All Biafrans. The book is a passionate plea to all Nigerians to work together to ensure that we stop “sleepwalking to disaster”.

I bumped into Philani* during yet another fruitless visit to a public hospital, where I had accompanied someone who was attempting to obtain follow-up medical treatment after being tortured by police last year.