Resource-rich countries are losing billions in revenue through bad and inefficient tax regimes and underselling mining assets The Africa Progress Panel puts it well: if Africa is so resource-rich, why are its people...
Thabo Mbeki
African leaders and the Panama Papers
While the involvement of Africans in the Panama Papers scandal has been described as ‘jaw dropping’, the revelations have resulted in very little action being taken In February this year Jürgen Mossack and Ramón...
African presidential systems and how to fix them
The continent’s systems of governance are evolving, but a transnational approach may be needed to ensure a system that works for the citizenry In Africa, by 2005, about 40 countries had introduced...
How much longer?
The Zimbabwean president managed to hold onto power through a pretence of competition through elections There has been neither peace nor serenity during Robert Mugabe’s 37 years in power. He has been at war in Zimbabwe...
The demon of tribalism
Jacob Zuma’s narrow Zulu nationalism stands in the way of the development of an inclusive South African identity Most African countries were flung together by former colonial powers out of diverse ethnic, religious and...
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