Why Africa must stop confusing potential with strategy
By Daki Nkanyane Every society eventually confronts an uncomfortable truth: institutions cannot outgrow the people who build them. Across Africa today, cranes dot urban skylines, fiber-optic...
By Daki Nkanyane There is a moment in the life of every society when progress accelerates faster than understanding. It is a moment filled with movement,...
By Mark-Anthony Johnson Can a West African nation plagued by poverty replicate Asia’s most audacious economic miracle? In the pantheon of ambitious national rebranding exercises, few...
By Victory Azimih For centuries, Africa has endured the label “the dark continent” – a phrase that speaks not to any absence of value, but to...
By Victory Azimih A troubling contradiction haunts African development: we discuss building the continent everywhere except where construction actually happens. African leaders, policymakers, and investors shuttle...
By Victory Azimih The world is reorganizing into powerful, consolidated blocs. Africa cannot afford to remain the outlier, negotiating as 54 fragmented voices. The cost of...
By Des H. Rikhotso In boardrooms from London to Singapore, Africa is often discussed in binaries: risk versus reward, chaos versus opportunity, poverty versus potential. Yet...
By Des H. Rikhotso From 2008 to 2022, Africa defied monolithic narratives. While the continent is often painted with a single brush – either as a...
By Dishant Shah For decades, the world’s understanding of Africa has been shaped not by Africans, but by distant cameras, foreign correspondents, and outdated tropes. The...
The African Development Bank revealed that it has developed a 10-year plan and strategy that would focus on the economic transformation of the African continent. In...
Africa’s top trading partners. COURTESY/U.S. Senator Chris Coons The U.S. can’t afford to ignore investment and trade with Africa now that countries like China and India...
