By Gregory Simpkins
By Gregory Simpkins When Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, received the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize “for his efforts to...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been a wave of coups across West Africa and the Sahel since 2020. The region is now widely called the “Coup...
By Gregory Simpkins When US President Donald Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval office in 2025 with allegations of genocide against white...
By Gregory Simpkins At first glance, South Sudan’s macroeconomic trajectory appears almost implausible. The International Monetary Fund projected GDP growth of 24.3 percent for last year...
By Gregory Simpkins Western Sahara, a territory the size of the American state of Colorado is designated by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory, making...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, the United Nations passed a resolution labeling the trans-Atlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity.” This resolution was championed by...
By Gregory Simpkins The United States’ relationship with Cuba has been long and troubled to say the least. At various times, the United States has been...
By Gregory Simpkins Those of us who consume British television shows and movies often see a multicultural society in which Black and White citizens mix easily...
By Gregory Simpkins High levels of debt have long plagued some African countries (as well as other countries worldwide). High government debt can have far-reaching impacts...
By Gregory Simpkins Global conflicts and policy shifts inevitably affect Africa and its Diaspora. In the current expanding conflict in the Middle East, economist Kasirim Nwuke,...
By Gregory Simpkins I recently read an article that peaked my interest in examining Diaspora connections to Mother Africa and her people. Writing in the Worcester...
By Gregory Simpkins Much has been written and said in the wake of the recent passing of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. He was an important figure...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa has long been a target of outside interests looking to capitalize on what the continent has to offer. The 19th-century European exploration...
By Gregory Simpkins In the midst of the chaos surrounding the removal of illegal immigrants in Minnesota, especially Somalis, an immigration change that threatens the removals...
By Gregory Simpkins In recent weeks, the island of Greenland has become a hot international topic. It has been at the top of the agenda for...
By Gregory Simpkins In the most recent Habari Network podcast, Habari director Emmanuel Musaazi asked our guest about how Communalism affected business and entrepreneurship in Africa....
By Gregory Simpkins Throughout 2025, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was considered dead. Legislation extending the trade process failed to get passed in late...
By Gregory Simpkins The recent American incursion into Venezuela and arrest on drug and other charges of de facto leader Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia shocked...
By Gregory Simpkins As we have entered 2026, the world community is experiencing heightened tensions and could lead to global conflict. As has been the case...
By Gregory Simpkins US President Donald Trump often makes grandiose threats and statements without carrying them out. Several weeks ago, he warned of a military response...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about the need for Africa governments to protect their natural and human resources and the need for African leadership to...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about the violence and conflict within Africa endangering the progress that has been achieved thus far. However, the current instability...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa is blessed with natural and human resources. The continent holds 60 percent of the world’s best solar resources, 60 percent of the...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa is home to 11 of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies in 2024, with countries like Niger, Senegal and Libya leading the charge....
By Gregory Simpkins In executing a nation’s foreign policy, of course language and actions give an indication of intentions, but governments also must consider how these...
By Gregory Simpkins Tragically, there is widespread conflict on the continent of Africa. However, none have been quite as vicious and brutal as what has been...
By Gregory Simpkins As I have stated recently, the United States, which strode the world stage as a political and economic colossus after World War II,...
By Gregory Simpkins I am a volunteer contributor to the William O. Lockridge Foundation in Washington, DC, which seeks to inform young people in the less...
By Gregory Simpkins Since the end of World War II, the United States has been a superpower, able to impose its will on much of the...
By Gregory Simpkins Now that there is a peace accord signed in Gaza, attention to charges of genocide there are now giving way to examination of...
By Gregory Simpkins When the United Nations General Assembly reconvened in September, there was a renewed call for Africa to assume at least one permanent seat...
By Gregory Simpkins In all the time I have analyzed African politics and economics, I have refused to refer to groups such as Zulu, Fulani, Acholi...
By Gregory Simpkins I have been associated with the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) since House staffer Mike Williams wrote the first draft. I worked...
By Gregory Simpkins As written on our pages recently, Ethiopia officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in a landmark ceremony led by Prime Minister...
By Gregory Simpkins When most of us went to school, we learned geography through the Mercator map of the world, not realizing just how inaccurate this...
By Gregory Simpkins Donald Trump took office in his second term as President determined among other things to go after countries that in his opinion prevented...
By Gregory Simpkins In a period of intense currency volatility, gold has become a hedge for many including in the Diaspora, creating a 21st century gold...
By Gregory Simpkins The global society is currently in a frenzy to acquire critical minerals, such as rare earths, lithium, (tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold) 3TG,...
By Gregory Simpkins During the two terms that I worked for Chairman Chris Smith at the House Africa Subcommittee, we encountered Christians persecuted in Africa and...
By Gregory Simpkins The implementation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) was supposed to encourage a mindset of broadening opportunities for all people in America. Instead,...
By Gregory Simpkins Recently, I wrote about US President Donald Trump’s global peace efforts. One of the peace efforts involved the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
By Gregory Simpkins The wave of coups in Africa’s western region, including the Sahel, offered hope that Pan-Africanism had taken hold and that neocolonial powers, notably...
By Gregory Simpkins US President Donald Trump appears to be more determined than ever to pursue his international tariff policies, even through the several reversals of...
By Gregory Simpkins In a recent statement, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights reported that the death toll from antigovernment protests in the country had...
By Gregory Simpkins The second administration of US President Donald Trump has come under significant criticism for several perceived failings – from shutting off development aid...
By Gregory Simpkins It took our world until 1804 to reach the first billion in population and another 218 years to reach the second billion. Our...
By Gregory Simpkins After the recent conclusion of the US-China trade negotiations, US President Donald Trump praised the agreement reached on social media as “a great...
By Gregory Simpkins When the Soviet Union dissolved more than three decades ago, hope rose globally that an end to the Cold War would allow democracy...
By Gregory Simpkins In the last few years, China and Russia have used the coalition they created – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) to...
By Gregory Simpkins The recently-concluded African Diaspora Investment Symposium 2025 (ADIS2025) commemorated a decade of the promotion of Diaspora investment in Africa by the African Diaspora...
By Gregory Simpkins Let me begin by saying that there is no genocide in South Africa. According to Article II of the United Nations Convention o...
By Gregory Simpkins South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (Madiba – clan name of respect in the Xhosa language), Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah (Osagyefo – redeemer in the Akan...
By Gregory Simpkins At the outset of the current Trump administration, it was widely believed that his transactional mindset would facilitate US-Africa trade and boost both...
By Gregory Simpkins When the French colony of St. Domingue achieved its independence as Haiti on January 1 1804, following a 13-year revolution to topple French...
By Gregory Simpkins Throughout history, people with strong beliefs have often taken their beliefs too far, provoking an opposite reaction from those who believe otherwise. Such...
By Gregory Simpkins Since the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, and in fact even before then, various foreign nations have had an abiding interest in...
By Gregory Simpkins During the last decade, the international economic order has been in significant turmoil – from the immediate and ancillary impacts of the Russia-Ukraine...
By Gregory Simpkins Within hours after taking office, US President Donald Trump set about dismantling Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programming in the US government. Needless...
By Gregory Simpkins With the Trump administration’s effort to curtail foreign aid, ostensibly due to concerns about corruption and misdirection of funds, US relations with the...
By Gregory Simpkins The United States and Israel have floated the idea of moving Palestinians from Gaza to East Africa so that peace will allow for...
By Gregory Simpkins The destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is just about complete. Even Prosper Africa, administered by the agency and created...
By Gregory Simpkins The so-called Scramble for Africa refers to the cooperative effort by European powers to exploit the people and resources of the continent of...
By Gregory Simpkins Seeing the photos and video of erstwhile colleagues given only 15 minutes to clear out the desks and offices they left behind when...
By Gregory Simpkins Over the years I have worked on analyzing international politics, economics and social issues, I have found that not only is each situation...
By Gregory Simpkins When Donald Trump won re-election as President last November, there were some in Africa and the Diaspora who expressed continued bitterness over his...
By Gregory Simpkins The first two weeks of the second administration of US President Donald Trump were chaotic to say the least. A wave of executive...
By Gregory Simpkins M23 Rebels Gain Ground in Eastern DR Congo The Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement (M23) rebels, who are steadily gaining territory in eastern Democratic...
By Gregory Simpkins Over decades of working on African issues – analyzing governments and economies and working with businesspeople wanting to enter African markets – it...
By Gregory Simpkins On his way out of the White House, President Joe Biden pardoned, among others, the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey who had been convicted...
By Gregory Simpkins For all of my adult life here in the United States, I have constantly heard how the African Diaspora in America (especially those...
By Gregory Simpkins France, one of the European colonial powers that divided up the African continent at the infamous Belin Conference of 1885, is on the...
By Gregory Simpkins As I have written about previously, the international community has discussed what to do about climate change for decades. Many promises of help...
By Gregory Simpkins As I have written previously, South Sudan is critically placed in the geopolitical context. For example, waters that form the White Nile River...
By Gregory Simpkins When we read articles about the economic health of countries, we often encounter one recurring item: Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It supposedly describes...
By Gregory Simpkins When Abiy Ahmed became Prime Minister of Ethiopia in April 2018, the country had been ravaged by a protracted conflict with its neighbor,...
By Gregory Simpkins Debt is a cancer that eats away a government’s ability to manage its economic affairs. It prevents governments from providing required social services,...
By Gregory Simpkins By the time this is posted on our website, there will be only days until the 2024 national elections in the United States....
By Gregory Simpkins When President Joe Biden promised during the December 2022 African Leaders Summit to visit Africa before his term ended, many observers probably thought...
By Gregory Simpkins As the international community moves toward an energy future featuring renewable energy, the source of critical minerals and the location of their processing...
By Gregory Simpkins While the international community focuses on Israel’s war with Hamas and now Hezbollah, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and speculates about a possible struggle involving...
By Gregory Simpkins As I have written about previously, as many as four billion people globally experience water shortages for at least one month a year,...
By Gregory Simpkins The pan-African publication African Arguments asked a very pertinent question in its September 10 issue: When will African leaders resist the neocolonial summons?...
By Gregory Simpkins Most of the world is experiencing a population decline. According to a August 31 article in the New York Post, for the first...
By Gregory Simpkins In recent decades, women throughout the African Diaspora and the rest of the world have struggled to attain some level of equity in...
By Gregory Simpkins During the African democratization wave in the early 1990s, I was privileged to be part of the U.S. effort to encourage the move...
By Gregory Simpkins For more than a decade, Western nations have pressured African governments and societies to accept lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBGTQ) rights...
By Gregory Simpkins For nearly half a century, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), established with the Treaty of Lagos in 1975, has endeavored...
By Gregory Simpkins African and Caribbean nations and organizations are increasing collaborating. For example, the African Export-Import Bank has opened a Caribbean office in Barbados. The...
By Gregory Simpkins The transition of colonies in the developing world have been difficult over the years to say the least. In this phase, colonial powers...
By Gregory Simpkins The international community has been discussing and debating the issue of climate change for decades. In the United States, the dichotomy was climate...
By Gregory Simpkins I was blessed to have been involved with the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) from when it was a legislative proposal while...
By Gregory Simpkins The Republic of South Africa has long been considered the hub of the wheel of the southern Africa region. It is the most...
By Gregory Simpkins The prevailing world economic order since the end of World War II, established by the major powers at that time, is coming unraveled....
By Gregory Simpkins Summertime is a prime season for tourism, and there are Americans who will want to visit Africa, this year again, or for the...
By Gregory Simpkins For more than a year now, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) coalition has been pressing hard for replacement of the...
By Gregory Simpkins The South China Morning Post reported on March 29, 2024 that by 2050, it is projected that only a quarter of countries in...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been significant discussion within Africanist circles about the multiplying coups in Africa, the ongoing conflicts and several other issues. However, there...
By Gregory Simpkins Following what has been described as intense negotiations, the U.S. government has agreed to withdraw its drone base from Niger. This base is...
By Gregory Simpkins After a few years of discussion about what renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) would look like, Senators Chris Coons...
By Gregory Simpkins When then-Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade congratulated his opponent on his victory and peacefully stepped down following the 2012 election, he was internationally praised...
By Gregory Simpkins In a May 2000 issue with a lead article headlined “Africa: The Hopeless Continent”, The Economist magazine unleashed a flood of discussions about...
By Gregory Simpkins The global environment is changing at an accelerating pace. The post-World War II arrangements have broken down to be replaced by an emerging...
By Gregory Simpkins Many of us are familiar with Africa as a concept, though not necessarily as distinguishable, individual nations nor Caribbean nations as more than...
By Gregory Simpkins Although half a world apart, lower-income South Africans and Americans are facing increasing challenges to their economic wellbeing due to the influx of...
By Gregory Simpkins In the late 1800s, European nations consolidated their colonization of Africa at an 1885 conference in Berlin to ensure that each colonial power...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been significant discussion over the past year about replacing the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The dollar has held...
By Gregory Simpkins The seismic shift in the world order is causing many economic and political changes. The determination to replace the U.S. dollar as the...
By Gregory Simpkins It is said that necessity is the mother of invention but that desperate times call for desperate measures. Well Ethiopia has a desperate...
By Gregory Simpkins I have been blessed to be a part of some important developments involving African issues: the creation and extension of the African Growth...
By Gregory Simpkins Since I was a young boy, Africa has fascinated me. Some of my early friends were from Liberia, and I grew up feeling...
By Gregory Simpkins In December 2022, the Biden Administration convened a summit with African governmental leaders, as well as African and American businesspeople and civil society...
By Gregory Simpkins December 10th is commemorated as Human Rights Day in honor of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights by the United...
By Gregory Simpkins We live in a time of great upheaval worldwide, and according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), there has never...
By Gregory Simpkins The African ‘coup train’ keeps on rolling with the latest coup attempt in Sierra Leone. This time, however, the coup was thwarted before...
By Gregory Simpkins Djibouti is viewed as a small country on the northeastern edge of the African continent. It is little known globally despite its advantageous...
By Gregory Simpkins “The world is aflame in conflict.” How often do we hear some version of that? It is, of course, quite true, but the...
By Gregory Simpkins Since its signing into law in 2000, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been the main trade program for the United...
By Gregory Simpkins I recently came across an intriguing headline in the New York Times: “The World Is Becoming More African.” The point being made is...
By Gregory Simpkins It probably escaped the notice of most people that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in October 2023 declined to prosecute Maxime Mokom, a...
By Gregory Simpkins Investors, especially American investors, are overly cautious in terms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. They require extra assurance of the viability...
By Gregory Simpkins Africa was the world’s cradle of civilization, and the people who left over the millennia (as well as those who remained) offered new...
By Gregory Simpkins For the past several years, African governments and their non-African supporters have lamented the continuing exclusion of African governments from seats on international...
By Gregory Simpkins The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the decision-making body of the United Nations effort to combat climate change. It has met every...
By Gregory Simpkins The current wave of coups in Africa demonstrates a disdain for following through on democratic governance in Africa – mostly by impatient military...
By Gregory Simpkins Since African nations began the road to independence in the 1950s, there have been about 100 coups in which militaries overthrew elected governments....
By Gregory Simpkins At the recent 123rd National Black Business Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, I told a panel audience that I have been blessed to be...
Obviously, such thoughts or feelings may, no doubt, be alien to our Caucasian neighbors
A Biased Interpretation In the first place, Wednesday January 6, 2021 started like any other ordinary day in January. It was cold. Capitol Hill was abuzz...
In an age when the socio-political movements can impact civilizations everywhere, now is the time for the African diaspora in North America to be more active...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network An exclusive interview with Mabior Garang de Mabior, Spokesperson for the Sudan’s People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) INSET: South...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network China has released its White Paper on Defense which seeks to modernize China’s military in what Beijing calls...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network This week world leaders gather in Beijing to attend the 2nd Belt and Road Summit. The Habari Network’s...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network An Interview with Prof. David Kiwuwa, Associate Professor in International Studies, University of Nottingham, Ningbo China. Full...
Felix Tshilombo Tshisekedi: A brief profile It is true; I don’t have experience in bad governance, or in pillaging my country… But I have experience...
An Overaching Interview Based on a glorious past – including brokering an end to the Ethiopian-Eritrean war in 1991 – former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief, The Habari Network A quandary currently engulfs us: how do you deal with a situation where there are just not enough advocates...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief, The Habari Network It Started with a Car Gaetano Fettucci is quite striking; complete with well-coiffed silver hair and a day-old beard....
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network The U.S. Trade Representative’s goal of negotiating a “model” bilateral deal with an African country could be...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network Washington, DC | I am exactly the wrong person to write a treatise on what is wrong with...
By the Habari Network Editorial Board October 4, 2017 Washington, DC | If Donald Trump’s scandal-plagued presidency has, at infancy, successfully tottered past a plethora of...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network Washington, DC | Just when one is about to provide a solid rationale for the phenomenon – no,...
By Dennis Matanda Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network New York | While Barack Obama and some of his predecessors contributed to what one ought to expect...
By Dennis Matanda, Editor-in-Chief | The Habari Network While its almost faux pas to suggest that African countries must look abroad for short-term solutions to their...
It’s quite alright for people to be skeptical. After all, how does one expect 55 countries to come together to create a free trade agreement, and...
The Habari Network Editorial Board Toronto/Washington/Addis Ababa: Over the next 5-year period, there’s a chance that a road will run from Boma, in central South Sudan,...
THE OBAMA EFFECT By Dennis Matanda, Emmanuel Musaazi and Ryan Elcock Toronto/Washington/Princeton | Because of his outsider status – with a brand of antiestablishment politics, and...
By Dennis Matanda | Editor – The Habari Network Obama has been one of the most effective American presidents One day before the 2016 General Election,...
By Dennis Matanda, Ryan Elcock & Emmanuel Musaazi | The Habari Network Attempting to box Donald J. Trump appropriately is an arduous task. The larger-than-life man...
By Dennis Matanda, Ryan Elcock & Emmanuel Musaazi | The Habari Network At some point during his first debate against Hillary Clinton, Donald J. Trump made...
Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server adding to her woes? In 2009, just after she was appointed Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton solicited and received...
In watching Mr. Trump’s run for the American presidency go off the rails, we really must hearken back to 2008. Then, Hillary Clinton was a woman...
By Dennis Matanda, Ryan Elcock & Emmanuel Musaazi | The Habari Network In Part 1 of this series, we started on an alarmist note; we introduced...
By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda Washington, DC | July 18, 2016 In preparing this paper, Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda leverage their extensive first-hand experience...
A few short months ago, we would have argued that the temperature and volume of anger amongst the American populace was infinitesimal. After all, we mused...
It is much too easy to pass judgment on these United States. With all manner of television shows, an outsider could say that Americans are backward...
While it would be foolhardy to intentionally solicit rancor and acrimony from a bipartisan group of colleagues, it really does not help us to remain mute...
We neither come to condone nor criticize. We are cyphers. We are sirens of old. We are interpreters of entrails, and this week, the entrails belong...
Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee For the past 15 years, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has been the thing...
Unlike American politics where you are never really surprised, Africa can truly and even pleasantly surprise you. Retired General Muhammadu Buhari won the 2015 Nigerian Presidential...
In this age of social media, commercial diplomacy, YouTube videos of kittens and the capacity to send money to one’s mother via her mobile phone thousands...
With his American accent, American education and conservative bona fides, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the perfect leader. In fact, if Republicans had their way,...
Let’s make it crystal clear: If the United States does not give Africa the kind of preferences program the continent badly requires, do not blame the...
Last week, in what can only be considered a historical feat, the African Union dispatched a delegation of African Ministers of Trade to Washington, D.C. to...
Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiongo Africa’s best and brightest ought to be very afraid. In 2015, many of us – writers, theorists, exemplars, journalists, editors, inventors, university...
The New Year, 2015 Washington, DC Just as commonplace as it is to see images of starving African children in the Western Media, its almost gospel...
Perhaps, the best thing about 2014 was not the beginning or the middle, but the end. And this is not about the euphoria that comes with...
Many people are puzzled; wondering why it took so long to announce that the Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri was not going to indict Officer Darren...
By Djifa Kothor Corporate social responsibility demands that corporations are not solely concerned with profit but also with the well-being of people. In Europe, and North...
By Papiso Matsau Ethiopian portion of the Cape to Cairo highway. PHOTO/File “So, what time is your flight?” my mother asked. “We are not flying, we...
By Djifa Kothor In 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), came to Lome, Togo to sign a peace accord. The agreement...
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has indicated that it will be prioritiszing investments in West Africa going forward. PIC CEO, Elias Masilela stated, “We have broken...
The ascent of China as a contending economic superpower with United States and Europe (the west), has opened up an alternative philosophical and economic path for...
AU Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, AU Chairman Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso at the...
The principle of state sovereignty has been an integral part of international relations since the end of the Second World War and this principle guarantees smaller...
African Union Peacekeepers in Dafur, Sudan. PHOTO/Abd Raouf/AP In the last decade, the African continent has experience dramatic political, economic and social progress. Thus changing the...
In 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History proposed that a week in February each year be reserved to remembering Abraham Lincoln,...
The pace of development in today’s Africa is like a steam train whose cadence is – much to everyone’s surprise – getting into bullet train territory....
By Papiso Matsau The idea of borders has always intrigued me. Having grown up near the Caledon River in Lesotho, where you could walk down the...
U.S. Cpl. Mark Stickney assists Moroccan Army personnel to correctly apply riot control baton techniques during a period of instruction on non-lethal weapon techniques presented on...
Precisely 3 weeks ago, we sat opposite a cabinet minister of an East African nation. When the subject of regional integration was broached, the Honorable scoffed at...
Over the next three weeks, the Editorial Team here at The Habari Network is going to be busier than a hive of bees. Not only are...
Bill O’Reilly, Host of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News. PHOTO/Fox News There is a huge difference between the American media and the rest of the...
On October 1, 2013, the federal bureaucracy of the world’s richest economy was partially shut down. To many, this was, simply ridiculous. Cynics...
On January 21, 2017, we predict that the drag on the U.S. economy will, finally, be lifted. Just as would have happened if Mitt Romney had...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. PHOTO/File By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda | Just like Kenya deftly managed a post-inferno crisis that shut down its international airport...
Ask anyone with insider knowledge of Africa’s regional economic communities – and they will tell you that most of the issues keeping Africa apart are not...
In the week of September 16, various African governments and their business executives made presentations to various Washington, DC audiences. These 5 days were presentation galore!...
While we neither have an issue with the Santo Domingo-based government of the Dominican Republic, nor disagree with international trade, much less the regional kind, we...
Churchill Road – Addis Ababa | Ethiopia A few short years ago, while one prepared to land at Bole Airport, Addis Ababa, they saw a dearth...
In a thorough first-of-its-kind study, the Brookings Institution made an excellent point: The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of 2000 has always had an excellent...
As if the task to generate a more effective African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was not arduous enough, a bill (S. 1331) to extend the...
To beatify someone – in the Catholic Church sense – is to recognize that they...
From left to right, President Macky Sall of Senegal, President Joyce Banda of Malawi, U.S. President Barack Obama, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, and...
The greatest trick the devil ever played, according to Charles Baudelaire, was convincing the world that he did not exist. Here, it does not matter which...
Have the luxuries in North America managed to make the people here soft in the head? This is the kind of question many in Africa or...
A Group of ACP Country Delegates – Courtesy of the World Bank Just last week, in what was termed ‘the first official high-level structured dialogue between...
In the month when it was confirmed that the U.S. president would, finally, grace the continent of his forefathers with a visit, the Obama Administration has...
Absurd as it may be, America’s economy could be in its current ‘malaise’ simply because the President is black. And more than anything else, it may...
While the U.S. Federal Reserve prints the greenback with what some may refer to as feverish abandon; and much as this may, in negative extremity, lead...