Governance

Countries that are the focus of these reports of phenomenal growth such as Nigeria and Ghana are undergoing internal crises related to the rising cost of living and the need to expand government spending on infrastructural development.

The 1929 Nile water allocation agreement that was signed by Egypt and the United Kingdom (which excluded Ethiopia and nearly all other upper basin countries) allocated 48 billion (65%) cubic meters of water per year to Egypt and 4 billion to the Sudan.

I came to Mwea in 1954 as a detainee having been captured by the colonialists; I was brought to Tembere, which by then was a vast wilderness inhabited by buffaloes and other wild animals and hardly any human beings.

People of Guinea, my people.
I could have been this pauper
A child without milk or roof.
A boy abandoned, faithless.
Young without education,
Adolescent deprived of attention.
A man without confidence.
A shadow without presence.
Idler liar and thief

As the sun sets in the remote border village of Dadajibula and residents take advantage of the cool blowing wind replacing the scorching sun, a group of women use the time to perform the rituals of female circumcision.

In 2009 Mozambicans watched the birth of a new political party, the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (Movimento Democrático de Moçambique – MDM). In only four years the party has managed to gain control of three strategic municipalities.

I have often wondered
Whether I should concede my identity to the mores of the Ivory Tower
Whether I should let the snob define who I am,
And whether I should, in the midst of this madness,
Let my African-ness speak less,
Than this mess that erased,

I

In 2011, Sierra Leone spent more on tax give-aways than on its development priorities, with mining firms the biggest beneficiaries.

The following year, the tax exemptions amounted to more than eight times Sierra Leone’s health budget and seven times its education budget.

What is the future of farm workers in South Africa? From the experience of the past 20 years, it looks grim indeed. Nearly 1 million people were forcibly evicted from white-owned farms in the first ten years of democracy, and jobs were lost at an alarming rate.