Africa in Fact

Africa in Fact is Good Governance Africa’s flagship quarterly publication containing contributions from high-profile academics, journalists, researchers and corporate leaders from across the African continent. Each edition is carefully themed to reflect the major challenges of the day and what can feasibly be done to confront and address them. The content is highly curated, has a credible pan-African reach, and offers significant advertising opportunity to corporate clients.   

Our editorial mission is to provide unique, curated in-depth content on themes as diverse, pertinent and interesting to Africa as the digital revolution, the low-carbon energy transition, liberation movements and informal economies. The publication also provides a platform for a diverse range of pan-African contributors, including GGA’S own in-house researchers, to learn and hone the art of long-form journalism.

Africa in Fact

ISSUE 65

Africa in Fact - Issue 63

Africa in Fact is Good Governance Africa’s flagship quarterly publication containing contributions from high-profile academics, journalists, researchers and corporate leaders from across the African continent. Each edition is carefully themed to reflect the major challenges of the day and what can feasibly done to confront and address them. The content is highly curated, has a credible pan-African reach, and offers significant advertising opportunity to corporate clients.   

Our editorial mission is to provide unique, curated in-depth content on themes as diverse, pertinent and interesting to Africa as the digital revolution, the low-carbon energy transition, liberation movements and informal economies. The publication also provides a platform for a diverse range of pan-African contributors, including GGA’S own in-house researchers, to learn and hone the art of long-form journalism.

Africa Organised Crime Index 2021

The slippery slope

The slippery slope

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is consistently ranked as the top performing tertiary institution on the continent. In the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings released in October 2022, it had climbed to 160th in the world, up from 183rd the previous year. More recently, in February this year,...

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Closing the gender gap in Africa  

Closing the gender gap in Africa  

Systematic and systemic marginalisation and the exclusion of any segment of a population in the democracy-building processes undermine the fundamental architecture of democracy. Aspiration Six of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 calls for “an Africa whose development is people-driven, relying on...

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Bringing the diaspora home 

Bringing the diaspora home 

In a bid to harness the skills and economic clout of its diaspora, Togo’s government has developed an inclusive strategy to encourage citizens abroad to carry out projects in the country and participate in economic, social and cultural development.   The government recognises that the state cannot...

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BOOK REVIEWS

The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara

The Zimbabwean nightmare and tragic optimism of Mutambara

To mention Zimbabwe and the idea of a “dream” in the same sentence, as Professor Arthur Mutambara has done, is to be provocative and challenging. The provocation and the challenge come from the troubling Zimbabwean economic and political condition that can only be accurately described in terms of things nightmarish and horrific. In his latest book, Ideas and Solutions – In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream - An Autobiography of Thought Leadership VIII, Mutambara has written a troubling book about a troubled country. In projecting the “Zimbabwean dream” and describing the possible Zimbabwean “promised land”, Mutambara becomes a tragic optimist who is clear about the trouble that Zimbabweans are in but stubbornly holds onto the faith that the country, its polity and economy, can be recovered from the current state of chaos and dysfunction. In this difficult assignment, Mutambara deploys his formidable brain to describe a Zimbabwean...

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