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By Stephen Lande and Dennis Matanda Washington, DC | May 18, 2016 United States Trade Representative Ambassador Froman should be lauded for his recent suggestion at...
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By Kelsey Lilley and Stephanie Sparrow Barack Obama’s historic election as President of the United States in 2008 was the first time an American of African...
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By David Muhammad Over the last week, there have been many disturbing statements coming out of Trinidad & Tobago regarding our Caribbean Jamaican family. Things have...
By Donald Kaberuka The apparent end to the commodity super-cycle has sent shock-waves through the global economy. It has sparked turbulence in world stock markets, put...
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By Valentine Rugwabiza Africa, it is often said, is a continent that leapfrogs various intermediary stages of technology. From fixed to mobile telephony, Africa leapfrogged the...
By Ngozi Okonja-Iweala The rise of Africa is in danger of faltering. After years during which the continent’s economy grew at an average annual rate of...
By Simplice A. Asongu When it comes to relations with China – and development strategies more generally – there are two opposing camps in Africa. But...
By Andrew Sweeney Global trading blocs are now becoming more common in an increasingly inter-connected world, and Africa, which already has several trading blocs, has just...
By Jonathan Dove Some of the assumptions about China’s presence in Africa appear unfounded. China’s overseas investment has long worried Western observers. From the constant updates...
By Daniella Bien-Aime Haiti is at a turning point right now. For the first time in Haiti’s history, there are tools that we can use to...
By Marvin Peart A color-free Academy Awards is indeed a strange anomaly, in an America more enriched every day by its people of color. But the...
By Rhonda Jaipaul-O’Garro The lack of racial diversity in the tech industry is a big problem, one that Silicon Valley’s largest firms are trying to solve....
By Lear Matthews An integral part of the diaspora experience is the sending of cash and goods, and the transmission of services, from immigrants to their...
By Steven W. Thrasher Since it’s original sin of slavery, America has been obsessed with the fear of black men. Rather than atone for its own...
By Maha Rafi Atal Last week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Nairobi, Kenya for its regular ministerial conference. The meeting produced several breakthroughs, including...
By Jeffrey L. Boney U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is...
By Alan Hirsch The fallout from President Jacob Zuma’s decision to dismiss South Africa’s respected Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene was felt immediately in the foreign...
By Song Guoyou As more and more Chinese enterprises expand into Africa, there has been increasing interest in China’s economic activities in the continent. As well...
By Jenerali Ulimwengu The recent tug of war between the Nigerian government and Africa’s biggest telecommunications company – MTN, comes as an instructive development for the...
By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar America has always had a complicated relationship with our athletes. When it comes to Game Day, athletes are warriors whose acrobatic actions on...
By Ryan Opsal The border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela has been ongoing for around two centuries, and Venezuela still claims large, resource rich swathes of...
Eritrea – a small east African country implemented its self-reliance initiative – it did something that at the time, was virtually unheard of in sub-Saharan Africa....
By Dan Aceda “If Nigeria moves, then Africa moves. If not, then we must wait.” I do not remember where I first came across the quote...
By Walter Baets If you ask people what they consider the world’s most prestigious business degree, most are likely to answer, “An MBA.” Indeed, the Master...
By Alex Perry Africa is standing up. After centuries of poverty, the world’s largest continent is developing fast. Economic growth in Africa will be around 5...
Guyana’s President David Granger said on Tuesday neighboring Venezuela had launched an “extraordinary military deployment” in the east of the country, near a disputed border area...
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By Ronald Sanders The Caribbean regional integration project is often described and criticized almost entirely on the uneven benefits of trade to member countries. But, important...
By Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo U.S. President Obama has left the continent. During his historic and inspiring visit to Kenya and Ethiopia, he announced several new initiatives...
By Opeyemi Agbaje In 2010 as I traveled across 10 African countries in west, east, central and southern Africa on some strategy and consulting projects, I...
By Valerie Montgomery Rice As president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, I am proud of Davon Thomas, M.D., for many reasons. Davon Thomas recently...
By Jon Queally On the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, proponents of the landmark legislation are saying the law not only deserves to be...
By Robert Stitt African Americans comprise 13.7 percent of the United States’ population, making them the second largest racial minority group behind the Hispanic/Latino population. Of...
By Frank Sieren U.S. President Barack Obama cannot do much more in Africa. Asia, especially China, is so far ahead that the United States won’t be...
By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda Manchester Trade Limited, Inc On June 25, 2015, after what were years of advocacy, the House of Representatives and Senate...
By Jake Bright As entrepreneurship takes off in countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, the U.S. President Barack Obama will be looking for more ways to boost...
By Allan Olingo China’s push for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to endorse its currency, the yuan (or the reminbi -RMB), as a global reserve currency...
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By Thebe Mabanga The 7th Summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) member states – the five major emerging national economies –...
By Ghada Hammouda While advanced economies are facing the problem of an aging population, one of Africa’s most attractive assets both domestically and internationally is that...
By Raymond Joseph Officials in the Dominican Republic, are poised to deport thousands of Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent to Haiti in an ethnic-cleansing...
By Calestous Juma and Francis Mangeni A major trade deal signed in June 2015 is about to remake Africa. Dubbed the Tripartite Free Trade Area, the...
Hundreds of thousands of people die each day. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 56 million people died worldwide in 2012. Most people died...
By Michal Ortner Undergraduate and graduate degrees are widely available in partial or completely online classes that are offered by for-profit institutions of higher learning. In...
In reality, things are not really as complex as people think they are. Many people think that any partnership between the West and much of Africa...
By the time my suitcase made it down the carousel at Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos, my white shirt was no longer as crisp as it...
By David Shipley Good ideas sometimes die not from opposition but from mere neglect. Case in point: the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). This is...
By Molla Mitiku Ayenew Some three decades ago Ethiopia was in a dire situation. Millions of Ethiopians were affected by a devastating drought that displaced thousands...
By Efam Dovi After passing the “Right of Abode” law, which grants African Americans an indefinite “right to stay,” Ghana became the first African country to...
By Garikai Chengu Black people in America live in a police-state-within-a-state. The African American police state exercises its authority over the black minority through an oppressive...
Being back in Africa these past two weeks, I did a few things I am not accustomed to doing: I spoke to young people; I hit...
It rained for much of Sunday, April 26, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. And for some reason – like happens on a rainy day – lethargy set...
Watching American politics today can be a little frustrating for those in the know, and extremely confusing for the neophytes. The vast majority of this world’s...
By Razia Khan The All Progressives Congress (APC), led by former military leader General Muhammadu Buhari, has won Nigeria’s presidential election, unseating the People’s Democratic Party...
Every smartphone video, every outraged community, and every sadly trending hashtag tells an individual story – an incident that should not have happened, a sign that...
By Obinna Chima The incoming administration must ensure that its economic policies are geared towards elevating the living conditions of Nigerians as well sustaining the country’s...
Like everyone in the know will tell you, passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) appears to be imminent – and we, probably, have...
By Brian L. Pauling I am saddened and frustrated every time I hear about the academic achievement gulf that exists between Black students and their White...
In these difficult times, one can easily feel helpless. Japan just refused to grant some desperate Syrians asylum. Somalia is still in dire straits. Drowning on...
Due to the tired and well-worn Western narrative of Africa – that of a continent continuously engulfed in war, poverty and disease – armed conflicts are...
By Dennis Matanda Robbinsville, NJ | 8:58 p.m. | March 14, 2015 Over the past three weeks, our readers from across the Atlantic; in Europe, in...
By Erastus Mwencha A few days ago, in meetings with both members of the United States Congress and the Obama Administration, each of the officials reaffirmed...
Watching Binyamin Netanyahu address a joint session of the United States Congress, I could not help but feel sorry for those in attendance. Not only were...
Basis for Proposal Amendments Paul Ryan, Orin Hatch and Michael Froman are saying things that could mean that the 114th Congress and the two last years...
I wish, at the very outset, to express appreciation to the African Union Commission for, firstly, inviting me to this meeting of the High Level African...
By Emmanuel Musaazi When I caught a glimpse of Uganda’s Draft AGOA National Response Strategy, my patriotic heart soared. I was, especially, proud that Uganda has...
Sometime last year, a high-ranking Ugandan Minister sent an email to a contact in a United States Agency. Like any good college alumni, Mr. Minister had...
This past January, with the 15-year old African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) program set to expire in September, the African Union dispatched a high-powered delegation...
Liberata Mulamula says that for a market access program like African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) to benefit a country like Tanzania, it must, first and...
“This trade and investment deal or partnership between these United States and an African country like Malawi where I am from really comes down to women...
By Murithi Mutiga So what that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is the new African Union (AU) chairman? How many people know whom he replaced in that...
By Nnanna Ochereome It is strange that a section of the political class in Nigeria cannot find in their ranks a suitably qualified, intelligent and competent...
By Wang Xiangjiang In recent years, the West has conjured up fantastic theories like “neocolonialism”, “China is exploiting Africa’s resources,” etc., effectively throwing mud at China...
Almost a week after Barack Obama’s 6th State of the Union address to a seated bicameral United States Congress; after much hoopla has been made of...
As you may have heard, Target, a behemoth of an American retailer, failed quite miserably in Canada. The Walmart-like retailer did not collapse under its own...
In the Apartheid era, Americans – black and white – lobbied the U.S Congress and the White House for sanctions against South Africa. That movement, no...
Witney Schneidman The Priority The legacy of the Obama administration in Africa is very much a work in progress. Several initiatives address genuine opportunities and concerns,...
By Emmanuel Musaazi The recent unlawful killings of unarmed black men by white police officers and their subsequent acquittal by a grand jury has brought issues...
I live in a mostly white neighborhood. The other minorities will, except for the occasional black family, be Asian. Because I rarely leave the house when...
It is much too easy to find fault in how sub Saharan Africa has managed its relationship with the United States. There’s no doubt that the...
It is amazing how little the beneficiaries of America’s largest program for Africa know about the opportunity it presents. Go to any meeting on the African...
Editor’s Note: Dr. Schneidman’s article was published both on the Brookings Institution website and also at www.agoa.info. But what should be most instructive is how the...
By Stephen Lande and Loulou Geboers After more than 50 years of doing trade policy, my thoughts are now crystallized around the ideal partnership between the...
Editor’s Note: Mr. Ngwenya is especially instructive on what can be achieved in both the short and long run when it comes to regional integration. COMESA’s...
By Eyob Tekalign Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation. Yes, the truth is that most countries have not been able to take advantage of AGOA; not...
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...
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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...