By Emmanuel Musaazi When I heard about the formation of (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) BRICS bank with South Africa as one of the...
By Emmanuel Musaazi Reading Peggy Noonan’s article titled “Apathy in the Executive” her analysis and portrayal of U.S. President Barack Obama as a failed leader in...
By Philip Ochieng Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) with his deputy William Ruto. PHOTO/Billy Mutai – The Kenyan President relinquished power in order to free the...
By Djifa Kothor Much has been said about the rising economic prosperity of Africa. In fact, it’s been widely reported that on average, the continent has...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. PHOTO/File A judge has ordered Haiti’s former president Jean Bertrand Aristide placed under house arrest and barred him from leaving the...
An un-armed Eric Garner, arrested and killed by an illegal chokehold by the New York Police. PHOTO/You Tube Phobias are lethal. Phobias are extreme aversions. They...
By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne This week’s Newsweek magazine cover features an image of a chimpanzee behind the words, “A Back Door for Ebola:...
By Richard Schiffman Wigton wind farm in Manchester, Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner Lefties Food Stall, a pint-sized eatery serving Barbados’ signature flying-fish sandwiches, recently became the first...
By Jimmy Kainja Malawian President Peter Mutharika addresses the nation shortly after he was sworn into office, June 2, 2014. PHOTO/AFP Slightly over 20 years ago,...
By Yoweri K. Museveni I remember 2 portions from the Christian Scripture. One is from our Lords’ Prayer. The relevant portion I am interested in says:...
By Olusegun Obasanjo When Nigeria announced recently that it had become Africa’s biggest economy, you could be forgiven for thinking that oil was the only reason. After...
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...
By Christopher E. Smith Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Getty Images When I heard that my 21-year-old son, a student at Harvard, had been stopped by New York...
A Harvard professor said developing countries were forced down an economic path in the 20th Century that lacked innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. As a result, he...
China’s enduring importance for Africa was strengthened again in 2013, when trade between the globe’s most populous country and the African continent soared to a record...
by Tan Sri Andrew Sheng IN April I shall be starting on a new series of articles that explore the challenges that Asia faces in its...
Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lower it stake demand from mining project in the country following an outcry from investors in the vast mineral-rich nation,...
By Paul Frimpong DEAD AID: Why TRADE facilitation is necessary but not AID Indeed to realize the potential of Africa, there is the need to develop...
By Jakkie Cilliers A new paper by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), called South African Futures 2030, outlines several plausible scenarios for the country, based...
If your neighbors get a cheap loan to build their new railway, you are going to want one too. But Hannibal cannot help worrying about the...
The implications of the shared geological history between Angola – currently producing 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) – and Brazil – 2.1 million bpd –...
Leaders never miss an opportunity to remind us of the positive changes since the end of the civil war in 2002. Take a ride on the...
The old colonial capital of Luanda is being reborn. Work is well advanced on the new multibillion-dollar international airport. Rows of luxury skyscrapers are under construction:...
By Bright Simons In May last year, China’s President Xi Jinping announced during a visit to Tanzania that the great Asian power shall be providing $20bn...
Analysis by Liesl Louw-Vaudran Last week, the world’s rich and influential once again gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum...
By Mercy Karanja New technologies and ideas – from mobile phone information systems to new crop varieties – are rapidly transforming agriculture across Africa. Yet the...
By Tony Elumelu (Reuters) – To Africa’s many challenges, add one more: unemployment. Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that...
By Bitange Ndemo Kenya is a frontrunner in technology and communications, but it must not slacken pace: the next decade will throw up opportunities to succeed...
Irrigated farming in Tanzania. PHOTO/Peter Arnold, Inc./Ron Giling Helping smallholder farmers adapt to changing climate conditions and lower their risks will be crucial to ensuring food...
By Carlos Lopes This year Africa celebrates fifty years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); never before has the continent been so...
Africa’s top trading partners. COURTESY/U.S. Senator Chris Coons According to Standard & Poor’s, the U.S. government shutdown ‘… shaved at least 0.6 percent off of annualized fourth-quarter...
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...
By Carlos Lopes Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)-management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500...
By Ryan Elcock The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a small heap of earth;...
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...
By Nicholas Norbrook Governments across the continent are looking for new development models after the policies of privatization and liberalization seem to have run their course....
By Ryan Elcock It is amazing how much clarity one can have when they take time to process all the crazy things that have transpired over...
By Carlos Lopes and Kemal Dervis Everyone stands to gain if Africa can sustain and accelerate its progress in tackling poverty and finding jobs for its...
By Carlos Lopes It is unquestionable that Africa is on a major ascendance path, a trend shared by the rest of the rising ‘South’. Despite the...
Studies looking at the impact of Western aid programs have revealed that there is zero correlation between per capita overseas development assistance and changes in gross...
By Chiamaka O. My Africa is not hungry. My Africa is just a giant that has failed to take giant strides. Africa as a continent has...
African American leaders at an NAACP Protest Rally for Trayvon Martin held early 2012. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – The not guilty verdict in the fatal shooting of...
By Nicholas Sengoba The Western media took up these two issues with the usual manipulative aim of creating a new narrative. The story of South Africa...
Obama visits his grandmother in Kenya before his presidency By Yetnayet Z. Demissie and Dennis Matanda While its well within some people’s right to gripe about...
By Sanou Mbaye In recent years, China and Africa have formed one of the modern era’s most successful economic and trade partnerships. China benefits from Africa’s...
By Ryan Elcock “Defeat the enemy from within by infiltrating the enemy’s camp under the guise of cooperation, surrender, or peace treaties. In this way you...
By John Fraser for The Inter Press Service As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, it is still younger and less integrated than...
By Tolu Ogunlesi Africa is all the rage these days. Every week, it seems there’s yet another Africa conference somewhere outside the continent – investors, bankers,...
Africa is rising not only on the growth charts of economists. The continent that was a byword for poverty, chaos and bloodshed only a few decades...
For all its challenges, Haiti was free of cholera for about a century before a United Nations peacekeeping force arrived from Nepal in October 2010. Although...
Florie Liser, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa 10:00 a.m. – March 11, 2013 By Dennis Matanda With the flair of a seasoned storyteller, Stephen Lande...
By Emmanuel Musaazi U.S. President Barack Obama making a point during one in a series of meetings in the Situation Room of the White House discussing...
By Michaëlle Jean Haiti does not seek charity, it seeks to found itself anew and provide opportunities for all. Too often, charity is the term that...
By Ryan Elcock Yesterday, I was enjoying the third season of Spartacus: War of the Damned; rightfully called so because even though Spartacus was victorious in...
By Stephen Hayes Why aren’t American businesses doing better in Africa? I was recently asked by a news researcher to provide names of companies who have...
Reviewed by Nahal Toosi After 2 1/2 years in Haiti, Jonathan Katz was preparing to leave the impoverished but intriguing nation in January 2010. His next...
By Dennis Matanda Image/Sonido – Silencio By Dennis Matanda In their infinite wisdom, the Yoruba say that one who lives on the riverbank should not use...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian By Fred Ojambo Africa’s middle class is growing at a faster rate than that of its...
The following is a compilation of individuals who we feel have made tremendous contributions to world, and have impacted the lives of people globally descent during...
By Stephen Lande + Dennis Matanda In September 2012, just as the 3rd Country Fabric was about to expire, the non controversial African Growth and Opportunity...
Africa is growing rapidly, yet the continent, which is faced with an energy deficit, is keen on finding new sources. Speakers at a recent meeting dubbed...
Author’s Note | November 23, 2012: An 800 word editorial for The Habari Network morphed into longer commentary following comments from economic policy and trade doyens....
At 10:03 p.m. on Tuesday night, we might actually start the process of closing our books. While people may be a little more effusive, we are...
My Ballot Paper for November 6, 2012 On a cold evening here in Princeton, New Jersey – an evening where many people in America’s North East...
By Ryan Elcock If you have been following the US 2012 election, you will agree that this one has been the most contentious since the Bush-Gore...
By Robert Bates Once ‘hopeless’ and now ‘rising’, Western narratives around Africa may tell us as much about what’s going in the West as in Africa...
Tonight, in the last debate between President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts came out looking like he could be America’s...
This’ probably the best way to describe the debate of October 16, 2012: The Debate for America’s Future. Obama came in tonight to prove that he...
By Ryan Elcock Like many of you, I was tuned into the debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama and I must say; Romney came...
Time check: 11:41 p.m. The Vice Presidential Debate ended more than 45 minutes ago – and on all the television networks, pundits are dissecting things; checking...
By Emmanuel Musaazi A rule of thumb in American politics is that if you are conservative, then you are more likely to be white and vote...
By Dennis Matanda Barack Obama lost his first debate tonight. He allowed his challenger, Gov. Mitt Romney to walk all over him; Obama did not push...
By Javier Cuñat According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from 2000 to 2010, six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa and...
By Ryan Elcock Between 58 to 51 BC, as he was successfully bringing the Gauls under the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar is said to have remarked...
By Emmanuel Musaazi According to the World Bank Group’s 2012 – 2015 strategy for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, new developments in telecommunications, in...
By Emmanuel Musaazi Made infamous by Pres. George W. Bush in his first term of office, the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations was invoked while pitching...
By Dawn Nagar and Mark Paterson As Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa could substantially enhance the continent’s development prospects — particularly if they...
By Ryan Elcock As Africa and the Caribbean continue to develop their own economies and bring prosperity to their people, there are sure to be hiccups...
Sub-Saharan Africa is shedding its reputation as an “economic laggard”. The West should pay attention. In the first decade of the 21st century, six of the...
By Julianne Malveaux The Olympic games are a celebration of excellence and athleticism. Whether we are cheering the Williams sisters in their gold medal-winning doubles match,...
By Mark Weisbrot Time to Clean Up One of the UN’s Biggest Crimes The people of Haiti have had a long and arduous struggle just to...
By Ryan Elcock, In this third and last installment of the series on how blacks intellectualize and rationalize themselves into oblivion, I examine the Caribbean and...
By Emmanuel Musaazi China has become the new cash cow on the block. Money from China is being sought worldwide and countries are lining up bowl...
By Dennis Matanda It is most frustrating to be cut off from the soil. Those of us who live in this cyberspace of the Diaspora spend...
Haiti is reportedly on the cusp of a gold rush, with exploration proceeding apace for an estimated US$20 billion worth of precious minerals buried beneath the...
Generations of Americans have learned to pity Africa. It’s mainly seen as a quagmire of famine and genocide, a destination only for a sybaritic safari or...
By Kevin Taylor There comes a time when one ought to look into aiding their own people. With so much going on in the world today...
By Ryan Elcock In Part 1, I, illustratively, asserted that we are, indeed, intellectualizing and rationalizing ourselves into an abyss from whence we might never recover....
Alice Walker The author Alice Walker is the latest African American celebrity to condemn Israel for its treatment of Palestinians by refusing to allow an Israeli...
With domestic labor costs rising, many Asian manufacturing producers are now looking to relocate their factories in other regions of the world. Could Africa replace Asia...
By Ryan Elcock If someone asked me whether we were intellectualizing and rationalizing ourselves into oblivion, I’d have to say ‘Yes We Are!’ In our quest...
Haitians protesting the presence of the United Nations peace keepers. PHOTO/File The accomplishments of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti have been overshadowed by scandals, from...
By Ragnar Gudmundsson In the past, when the global economy weakened, sub-Saharan Africa fared very badly. Not so in recent years. While the global economy spluttered...
By Ali Bongo Ondimba What is your perception of Africa today? Do you see Africa as the “dark continent” of old, with famine, wars, poverty, tribal...
By David Jessop Trinidad and Tobagos Point Fortin LNG terminal. PHOTO/File In March 1980 David Renwick, the Trinidadian journalist, and I wrote an extended feature for...
Tony Elumelu Africa, the second largest continent, is in a fix. It is rich in natural resources. It has a relatively young population, but years after...
By Ryan Elcock I recently stumbled upon an interesting article from the Jakarta Globe called, “China Extends its Economic Influence to the Caribbean Region” which got...
Give Africans a piece of technology and watch them invent a thousand uses for it. This idea was of course exaggerated for laughs in the 1980...
France has a new president, a new regime and a ‘new’ philosophy in the middle of Europe and a world that had, apparently, gone the way...
By Kevin Edmonds As part of her election campaign, Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of Jamaica announced her intention of breaking ties with the British monarchy and...
Electronic toll gate structure on Gauteng highway. PHOTO/Yuri Madonsela South African unions and big business are united in opposition to proposed tolls to pay for road...
A good way to start redefining African risk would be for African-owned financial institutions to establish their own rating agency. The idea that risk analysts and...
There is no doubt that a good education can open up the door to future opportunities, as well as equipping young people with life skills and...
The United States is clearly worried about China’s rising economic and political influence in Africa. As recent comments by a State Department official and independent analysts...
By Ryan Elcock As the Trayvon Martin tragedy unfolds day-by-day, I have discovered that we black men have some pretty awesome powers – not the kind...
If Bill Gates were black, it would be less important that President Barack Obama is black. This is no slight to President Obama. It is an...
African American voters. PHOTO/File For more than two weeks, tens of thousands of African-Americans have been marching on public streets to demand justice for Trayvon Martin,...
Racial profiling — the targeting of individuals because of race, ethnic identity, national origin or religion — has no place in our nation. The recent, tragic...
Newspaper vendors in Senegal. PHOTO/File After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as...
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP The shooting to death of a young teen – Trayvon Martin, in Florida three weeks ago is every parent’s nightmare,...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council September 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan....
President Barack Obama has a public relations problem when it comes to Afghanistan, to say the least. Once the must-fight war for America, the decade-long mission...
Joseph Kony. PHOTO/AFP This week’s biggest Africa news isn’t from Africa. It’s from a massive online and social media campaign launched by the American advocacy group...
Taking a walk in the downtowns of major African cities, one can see bustling shopping malls and streets populated not just by domestic restaurant chains but...
By Dennis Matanda For the record, I do not think that feminization equals a reduction in status. However, bear with me while I pontificate on how...
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File The GOP primary in Florida on January 31 highlighted a fundamental problem the Republican Party will face in...
Rwanda may be on track to become one of the most compelling case studies in favor of foreign aid since South Korea emerged as an economic...
Queen Nefertiti. Image/USA Today, August 13, 2003 Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he takes you on a journey to discover a wealth of African history...
As Black History month commences, we will continue to highlight black men, women and sometimes children who have stood out and made great contributions, better themselves...
Dante Carver. PHOTO/Japan Today Dante Carver an New York native moved to Japan in 2005, and by 2008 had become the most popular male actor in...
They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore...
The presenter asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social...
January 20 was the third inauguration anniversary of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the US. President Obama was inaugurated on the January 20,...
By: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Cornel West wrote in 1985 that the black intellectual was “caught between an insolent American society and an insouciant black community.” Twenty-seven years...
By Dennis Matanda Because it is very subjective, one cannot prove, with considerable certainty, that another is racist. Circumstances and conditions have to be taken into...
By Dennis Matanda In his seminally impressive book Not Even Past, Thomas J. Sugrue makes a valid point about race and racists. He concurs that there...
Nigerian billionaire., Aliko Dangote Millionaires and billionaires have budgets – they are financially successful – all the more reason why we could borrow a leaf from...
By Dennis Matanda Although the title of this article is taken from Franz Fanon, it does not, under any circumstances, advocate violence. While Fanon was deeply...
Canada’s self-image as a tolerant nation perversely allows racism to flourish. If you are a Black Canadian, studies continue to show that you are less likely...
Brazil’s public self-image of a ‘racial democracy’ is being challenged as black Brazilians struggle to overturn centuries of racism Aleixo Joaquim da Silva was working in...
A barrier for Cuba’s blacks Six-foot-two, brown skinned and with semi-curly hair, Denny walked confidently into a government warehouse for a recent job interview. Sitting across...