In recent years, African sovereign wealth funds have demonstrated their capacity to implement innovative mechanisms such as public-private partnerships in the utilities, roads, ports, airports, telecoms-infrastructure,...
Vaccination rates in CARICOM countries are too low
African entrepreneurs need to adopt the organizational mindset which is linked to higher business success
Increase in staple grain imports in various African countries, combined with slightly better domestic grain production conditions in some, has slightly shielded the region
If Africa is to overcome barriers to structural transformation and industrialization, a broader strategy, based on developmental regionalism, will be needed
Chauvin guilty verdict, should have consequences for policing in the United States
The racialized trauma from police killings adds to the growing sense of alienation and frustration felt by African Americans
China’s FDI into Africa is more seeking to complement its own development than replicate it elsewhere.
The Global Pandemic has had significant economic, monetary and fiscal ramifications for Africa
Research shows Chinese companies hire large numbers of local employees
Sub-Saharan Africa is the second fastest-growing, and the second most profitable banking market in the world, partly because of the rapid adoption of new technology
Dear President Biden, As you know, the economic relationship between the U.S. and Africa has always attracted bipartisan support from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and in the...
By Representative Karen Bass Chair, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights & International Organizations The United States House of Representatives Over the past decade, several synergies...
The late president required that previous contracts be renegotiated and tightened for increased assurances and more revenues for Tanzania
Editor’s Note: State Councilor & Foreign Minister Wang Yi started 2021 by making his first foreign visit to Africa, a tradition dating back 31 years. 2021...
Introduction Manuel is well-known and well-regarded in the financial sector in Africa and abroad. He is easy going, ambitious and unforgettable. His former boss at the...
By Admassu Tadesse The Eastern and Southern African Trade & Development Bank (TDB) has had growing working relationships with America’s foremost public and private sector financial...
Editor’s Note & Introduction At 6.30 a.m. in Palo Alto, 2.30 p.m. in London, and 9.30 a.m. in Washington, DC, Prince Heto and David Luke sat...
Val Okaru-Bisant, ESQ & Frank Samolis, ESQ Those who subscribe to the isolationist viewpoint suggest that U.S. charity should begin (and stay) at home, caring for American...
By the Habari Journal Editorial Board It feels like we are living through the worst days of the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC). Even if that...
Caribbean people would prefer a Caribbean with one currency, one passport, free to travel between, to invest, to benefit from its abundant collective wealth
African countries have already taken a bold range of actions, from ambitious public health interventions to flatten the curve, to the expansion of social safety nets,...
Black-owned companies, which on average had fewer resources to draw upon going into last year, were hit particularly hard by the downturn and were less well-served...
The power gap between China and African countries, nonetheless, is real. To rebalance this relationship, African countries need to be more transparent in negotiating with Chinese...
What makes our democracy strong is that people spent years organizing and building the capacity to educate and motivate voters.
Pandemic has highlighted a number of areas in which Africa is weak or faces threats.
CARICOM wants to work alongside the US and other international partners within a robust multilateral framework to build back better.
Contrary to widely held beliefs, China-Africa relations are surprisingly adaptive, dynamic and resilient to the challenges and criticisms that they encounter.
AfCFTA, the largest global free trade area by countries participating, could transform the continent's economic prospects. It aims to be a model of cross-border cooperation in...
Smaller countries proved more agile than most of their larger counterparts
Given the new challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries should consider reducing the sustainable development goals.
Until the 2000s, sub-Saharan Africa was actually de-industrializing. Then they turned it around.
For more than half a century, the U.S. was the center of global innovation for financial technology, inventing credit cards, ATMs, and online banking. Now, however,...
Appointment of female Commissioners is in line with the Maputo Protocol, requiring African states to ensure the participation of women at all levels of decision making.
Sustainable energy offers not just economic but critical social and environmental fortification.
We need to ask whether current agricultural practices in Barbados do in fact produce high quality food that is healthy and nutritious to eat.
Tech platforms are vital for nation to support Black-owned businesses amid pandemic
South Sudan is seeking investment in hydrocarbon exploration, infrastructure development and power generation capacity, with opportunities to be showcased at the upcoming South Sudan Oil &...
Guterres is the UN Secretary-General that has paid the greatest attention to the concerns and challenges of the countries of CARICOM
In order to boost intra-African trade, we need to improve infrastructure. Infrastructural development is the key to all aspects of social and economic transformation.
Key technologies like the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Big Data must be central to the monitoring and evaluation on the performance of...
The US is a neighbor, a friend and a development partner for the Caribbean. A more cooperative US is therefore a welcome change from the “America...
The landmark trade agreement has the potential to transform Africa
For years, the US-Africa relationship has fallen short of what it could be, owing to misaligned priorities and a mix of neglect and contempt on the...
Blockchain has the potential to help resolve many of the problems with the Caribbean finance sector; blockchain could also be helpful in connecting the region’s economies...
Any discussion of HBCUs and money must begin with a simple fact: HBCUs have less in the way of financial resources than do colleges in general.
African Union Passport may serve as a powerful tool to unify trade and labor mobility.
Continental Integration: Uniting a revitalized Africa
The benefits of empowering women to participate in the digital economy are obvious. The key to success will be initiatives to teach digital literacy and expand...
The "Build Back Better" plan offers many commitments including one to pursue “a dedicated agenda to close the racial wealth gap".
AfCFTA could transform Africa’s economic landscape and create productive opportunities. The potential increase in manufacturing jobs, commercial enterprises and agribusinesses could change the lives of millions...
African Continental Free Trade Area presents an opportunity to both bolster intra-regional trade and increase Africa’s negotiating position on the international stage.
If you apply a double standard, you lose the authority to tell anybody anything when they do wrong.
African nations and businesses face unique challenges. Shutting down funding for gas projects on the basis of climate action only hurts the continent’s people, and limits...
Abrams, 46, a lawyer, entrepreneur, and novelist apart from being a Democratic politician, became the minority leader in Georgia’s lower chamber in 2011, and began strengthening...
Spared the worst medical effects of COVID-19 with among the world’s lowest virus infection rates and fatalities, Africa nonetheless suffered due to deep economic fallout. Declining...
The incoming administration says racial justice is a top priority. Only a top-level adviser will be equipped to fight 'crisis unparalleled in the modern era.'
A Candid Conversation with Prudence Sebahizi & Stephen Lande By Dennis Matanda Addis Ababa, Nairobi, & Washington, DC ______________________________________ While a giant pond separates them, Prudence...
The pandemic has not only negatively impacted the creative sector in Africa, but it has also exposed its shortcomings.
Oprah Winfrey joins efforts to promote such entrepreneurs, but economists cite limits in addressing economic inequality through shopping
Applying modern e-hailing technology to private mass transport could produce mobility solutions that reduce congestion and car usage.
Africa is already at the point where mobile phones and mobile phone minutes are used for transactions, it is only a few steps away from moving...
For CARICOM representatives to engage effectively with the US Administration, CARICOM needs to have a clear policy and strategy to guide its representatives in Washington DC,...
Mobile broadband is vital to support access to education, work, healthcare, social networks, goods and services. Its effects were larger for those households that were exposed...
More than 40 percent of African American engineers are HBCU graduates. These colleges and universities have played a critical role in closing the achievement gap by...
A repository of real-time information on current trade negotiations is needed to track the rules that shape development outcomes in Africa, writes David Luke — Trade...
Ghana hopes to have a highly industrialised economy. It has singled out nuclear power as a key vehicle of development.
To avoid a lost decade similar to the one Latin America experienced from its 1980s debt crisis, the international community must help African countries avoid disorderly...
Beijing is Africa's most important trading partner, with Sino-African trade currently in excess of US$200 billion a year.
By Francis Mangeni, Stephen Lande, and Dennis Matanda A Growth Engine for the Next Fifty Years Even though a particularly disruptive global pandemic has had a...
Women and girls are being particularly affected by the pandemic, in areas such as health care, education, and personal safety.
By Benjamin Kagina Scientists are working around the clock to develop and test vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Experts agree that widespread use...
To stimulate stimulate growth, to put the economy on a new path of increasing prosperity, Barbados requires new investment, in hotels and tourist facilities, in renewable...
By Francis Mangeni In this fourth and final part, we provide a series of responses, starting with the bane of regional integration in Africa. The Bane...
By Francis Mangeni In this third of a four-part article, I focus on the typology of Africa’s regional integration. Typology of African Regional Integration The ultimate...
Universal basic income helped Kenyans weather COVID-19 - but it’s not a silver bullet.
By Patrick Gathara The 2020 election in the United States seemed both familiar and strange. Familiar because it looked very much like the last 2 Kenyan...
By Ronald Sanders Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries should by now have worked out a strategy for securing the early attention of US President-elect, Joe Biden, and...
China’s growing engagement with Africa has had a positive, albeit uneven, effect on Africa’s economic growth, economic diversification, job creation and connectivity.
When it comes into effect, the AfCFTA will remake African economies - and the world’s.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is considered one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources. It boasts a thriving mining...
What now for Black Lives Matter? Whatever happens under Biden, the role of African American women will be vital
Mature democracies don’t treat political opponents as wartime enemies.
In the wake of a continent-wide recession, a recovery designed and financed largely by Africans is well within reach. While the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting the...
Following over a decade of service at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Dr. Francis Mangeni is now Head of Trade Promotion and...
Africa needs digital skills across the economy - not just the tech sector.
Nigeria’s population growth is a product of persistent high fertility and consistently declining mortality.
COVID-19 has revealed “horrendous legacies” of inequity
By Erastus Mwencha, Francis Mangeni, Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda In this brief Manchester Trade paper, we argue that unless intra-African trade under the African Continental Free...
By Francis Mangeni Introduction In this first of a four-part article, I would like to elaborate on Africa’s economic integration efforts as a corollary to universalism...
The US presidential election highlights the gap between the promise of freedom and justice and reality for African Americans fuelling the recent protests.
One of the big boons for the region from the AfCFTA will be unblocking the trade barriers between Kenya and Ethiopia - the two largest economies...
China's productivity has increased faster than the world average. As a result, Chinese made products offer better value for money.
People from all over the world who have been colonized are sending the message that they are no longer accepting this system of “civilization” and that...
If female entrepreneurs received as much support as their male counterparts, the global economy could experience a boost of US$5 trillion.
Refusal of reparations denies 'the criminal nature of colonial crimes'.
An inconvenient truth often ignored or denied is that Chinese economic activities on the African continent are not worse than (and often not even as bad...
By Dennis Matanda/Nairobi/Toronto/New York I write this in the aftermath/afterglow of watching Senator Kamala Harris debate Vice President Mike Pence. Although I was not with them,...
By Dr. Francis Mangeni/Lusaka – Zambia While evident that the raison d’etre of Government – if it is acting as ideally as a government – is...
Building food security through agricultural industries needs an integrated and inclusive strategy.
By Mario Egie and Aly Madhavji The ease and convenience of services backed with the emerging techs can dramatically improve the financial landscape in Africa. Africa...
U.S. diplomacy has failed. African diplomacy can’t afford to. The dam dispute is an African issue and so requires an African solution.
CARICOM countries are still quite dependent on revenue from import duties.
New director-general could also address colonial patterns that hold back the continent - extractive patterns of trade with ones that provide more jobs and income at...
Several referenda have failed in other Caribbean countries to alter the constitution to allow the Privy Council to be replaced by the Caribbean Court of Justice.
How to maximize the economic opportunity of sub-Saharan Africa.
Jamaicans renewed their longstanding demand to select their own head of state
Africa must be an alternative source for the much-needed goods in the booming service sector in China.
By Jenna Delport and Pedro Guerreiro The 21st century is widely touted as the ‘African Century’, a period promising unprecedented economic and technological growth for the...
There can be no alternative to a prosperous, inclusive, and integrated Africa.
Currently, researchers are working to determine how many medically relevant strains of SARS-Cov-2 are circulating and what the consequences are for treatment and vaccine development.
Governments in Africa must refocus the mindset of the people to understand that we have the market and the natural resources which if exploited successfully easily...
Power and the presidency in Africa.
Priority recommendations - to overcome the challenges faced by Caribbean countries during COVID-19.
Africa offers Black business owners more affordable and diverse business opportunities, and a young entrepreneurial population who would make great business partners.
The formidable challenges that black women must overcome to achieve positions of prominence are like the fire that tempers steel.
Black Americans are protesting because they are tired, because they are worn out, because they are exhausted by violence against themselves and their communities.
Can mentoring decrease the challenges facing young African scientists in their research careers?
Ghana has generated $1.9 billion so far from the Year of Return.
Most African states will have high public debt as they use all available lines of credit to secure resources to fight the pandemic.
African nations may not duplicate the Asian development path, but they can learn from their peers’ experiences, avoid their mistakes and replicate their successes.
African citizenship can provide sanctuary for diasporic Africans from racist persecution.
Tanzania’s case shows that no country is pre-ordained to remain underdeveloped.
CARICOM has proved to be politically resilient with all parties recognizing that there are more benefits in retaining the organization than abandoning it.
By reducing enrollment and disrupting instruction, the COVID-19 pandemic is generating financial distress for all colleges and universities.
Regional responses to the pandemic are essential, and although regions acted quickly, results have been mixed.
In post-pandemic Africa, small businesses could be key to recovery.
If American consumers directed just a small portion of the US$13 trillion they spend each quarter to black businesses, that surge in revenues might help build...
The short-term shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout will have a significant impact across Africa. But the continent has a newfound resilience and...
African governments need to prepare proactively to safeguard the lives of their people - aid or no aid.
International solidarity with the African American civil rights struggle comes not from some kind of projection or spontaneous sentiment; it was seeded by centuries of black...
Resurgence of police brutality has started the rise of a standard within the Black community that may pose a strong counter to the racially charged ideologies...
Africa finds itself with fewer COVID-19 cases than other heavily populated regions.
African Americans suffer the consequences of an economic, political, and social system that glorifies and privileges whiteness and uses violence to limit the freedoms, rights, and...
Across Africa, goods once made at home are now being bought and sold. Rural Africans spend only 40 percent of their work hours on their farms,...
When America goes through a trauma as it has since the killing by the police of George Floyd, the impact is felt worldwide. Floyd’s death has...
More than ever before, African leaders should rethink their economic positioning and strengthen their odds.
African governments’ COVID-19 strategies must reflect the local context, the evolving nature of the pandemic, binding resource constraints, and weak international collaboration.
After Ghana discovered oil and gas in 2007, the government and civil society aspired to avoid the “resource curse".
Our relationship with America has been unhealthy from the beginning. We are loved by America when we are entertaining or laboring to build wealth for people...
Africa can mount a stronger COVID-19 response strategy by using regional trade blocs to coordinate, consolidate, and connect resources across the continent.
Examples of innovation aren’t getting the fanfare they would do if they emerged from Europe or the US
The group is still doing important work, but after Donald Trump became president liberal America stopped paying attention.
These organizations galvanize the collective power of black people, enact legislation to promote equity, and implement policies that address disparities. These organizations force change.
Limiting cash is then a primary focus of the long-term COVID-19 response by African governments.
By Wale Akinyemi The world counted losses from the worst pandemic to hit the earth in modern times. People reminisced about the companies that used to...
Three ways COVID-19 could actually spark a better future for Africa.
Africans should re-purpose their relationship with China to fuel the African renaissance.
By Josephine Moulds Africa’s swift action to contain COVID-19 has been effective in suppressing transmission so far. There is broad support for stay-at-home orders, but this...
How racial health disparities will play out in COVID-19 Pandemic.
East African nations can teach Americans how to fight a pandemic.
COVID-19 is a grave concern for Caribbean governments and citizens, with rightful cause.
Here’s why protectionism is weakening Africa’s response to COVID-19.
China's Coronavirus aid to Africa will build political support.
Barbados now has an opportunity to acquire test kits, personal protective gear and medical supplies and equipment, to cope with possible surge in COVID-19 cases.
By Linus Unah While government resources are under strain, the private sector in many African countries has stepped up to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigeria’s...
Africa and other regions of the Global South have already demonstrated that they are far from passive centres for medical experimentation. Rather, they are the sites...
How black colleges fostered generations of leadership and activism.
Africa is neither a laboratory nor the continent of disease.
By Ronald Sanders The image and standing of Guyana are being tarnished throughout the world. Yet, a small window of opportunity remains open for the country...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) grinds the world economy to a halt
By Chris B. Bennett Two weeks ago, talked to many African American business owners about the effect that COVID-19 has had on their business, and there...
Situation is worse for those Caribbean countries that also rely on cruise ships as part of the overall contribution of tourism to the economy.
With governments in Europe and the US fighting desperate national battles of their own against COVID-19, the continent may seem a remote concern. But if there...
In the absence of the virus being identified, many are concerned that COVID-19 will spread rapidly throughout Africa’s densely packed cities.
At the time of writing, the Caribbean region has 34 cases.
By Charles Onyango-Obbo As most people continue to run scare over what the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared to be a Coronavirus pandemic, there...
AfCFTA has charted a transformative course for African trade - it is up to African states, businesses and banks to navigate the way ahead
In a shift in fortunes, African countries – whose citizens often have to prove their health status to even get a visa to travel to Europe...
There is a road to prosperity ahead for Barbados, but major obstacles remain in the path.
Uganda's economic growth no longer high enough to create more and better jobs for its population.
By Ronald Sanders On February 20, the UN Security Council received a grim report of deteriorating human rights and collapsing rule of law in Haiti. The...
In Africa, Pompeo found a continent too pre-occupied with its own agenda to pay attention to his message.
It is also hypocritical for countries and people who enjoy the security, greater life expectancy, comforts and economic opportunities associated with plentiful, reliable energy to say,...
By Hilda Imali Ngusale The thought of death stings deep in the hearts and minds of loved ones but it does different things to those seeking...
By Jonathan Donner • The ‘skills gap’ in Africa represents a threat to the continent’s digitization. • Online marketplaces are increasingly investing in training that goes...
The long-standing dispute between Guyana and Venezuela is set to be taken to court.
By Misheck Mutize There is renewed concern about the sustainability of rising debt levels in many African countries. Much of this debt is being incurred through...
By Delisle Worrell Wind and solar power offer an exciting prospect of rapid growth and energy independence to a sunny island-nation like Barbados, set out in...
By Heather Greenwood Davis and Starlight Williams Last summer in Ghana, Tiffany Heard followed her guide to his hometown of Kumasi. There, in a courtyard in...
By Alexander C. R. Hammond We should be thankful that the once-dubbed “hopeless continent” is hopeless no more. Following the dawn of a new decade, a...
By Brian Stout The European Union does not treat the African Union as an equal partner. Unless the AU resets relations, it’s in for decades more...
By Hanan Morsy The continent’s governments are falling short. Here’s how they can do better This year, Africa will account for almost all of the US$21...
By Jaymes Pyne and Eric Grodsky When seeking graduate and professional degrees, African Americans take on over 50 percent more debt than white students. On the...
By Henry Wilkins African Union (AU) leaders are expected to renew calls for greater involvement in efforts to resolve Libya’s long-running conflict at a summit held...
Ghana's 'Year of Return' a resounding success
By Ronald Sanders Caribbean countries are being warned by the United States government and US writers that they should limit their dealings with China. In the...
Despite decades of concerted effort, no comprehensive deal between all 11 countries that share the Nile river basin has ever been reached.
Germany committed genocide in Namibia
South Africa looking to nationalize health care by 2026
A boycott of fossil fuel in Africa would be misguided. Here's why
Successful implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement set to have a profound impact on the continent’s energy sector.
When Ghana gained independence, Freddye Henderson facilitated African American tourism to the new nation.
The transformative potential of 4IR in Africa is substantial
By Joshua Alexander Baker I have always viewed education as a vehicle for progress and mobility. I understood that the best opportunity for both socioeconomic advancement...
By Landry Signé By now, many observers are familiar with the broad outlines of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) economic story: a relatively small country rising...
By Meghan McCormick Africa is the world’s most entrepreneurial continent. According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), more than 1 in 5 working-age Africans are starting...
By John Reosti A recent bank failure and a new legislative effort are drawing attention to the struggles of black-owned banks. City National Bank of New...
By Andre Perry It is past time America paid its debt to Historically Black Colleges and Universities – HBCUs. It is hard to place a dollar...
By Jurica Dujmovic Among the world’s 30 fastest-growing cities, 21 are in Africa You’ve heard of fast advancements in Asia’s economy. Now get ready for Africa....