Review of The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa, The Coloniality of Data, by Everisto Benyera, Routledge, Oxford, 2021 Effusive predictions have been made about the benefits of the fourth...
Africa in Fact
Editorial: Code Red for Africa – and the world
The first issue of Africa in Fact this year takes a hard look at how the decisions, agreements – and disagreements – not to say disappointments that characterised the 26th annual United Nations (UN) global climate...
Africa and vaccine economics
Africa’s fortunes in a post-COVID world will depend on how it navigates the critical questions of vaccine economics – vaccine diplomacy and regional integration. As the continent slowly recovers from the...
African authoritarianism: COVID rules should be regularly reviewed, not normalised
On 11 March, 2020, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally designated COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Citing “alarming levels of spread and severity”, he...
Africa’s policies must leverage pandemic-created opportunities
Two meetings of African leaders in May and July on the region’s post-pandemic economic recovery strategies were not short on big declarations. In Paris, the first summit, facilitated by the French president,...
After COVID it’s time for Africa’s green revolution
The continent is looking to put the green agenda at the heart of its COVID-19 economic recovery, with the proposal of the African Green Stimulus Programme (AGSP) to catalyse the recovery of key sectors hardest hit by...
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