On 25 May 2013, Africa celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). This organization was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on…
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Category: Policy & Advocacy
Equity in Africa’s Extractives
Below is an article I wrote for the FAIR OBSERVER° online magazine. As is common with media outlets, the original piece submitted underwent significant…
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Animation for Africa Progress Report 2013
CHECK OUT this animation accompanying the just released Africa Progress Report 2013. The APR2013 was launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape…
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Africa Progress Report 2013 Video: Imagine an African continent by Kofi Annan
Video message accompanying Africa Progress Report 2013 dubbed, “Equity in Extractives: Stewarding Africa’s natural resources for all” launched on May 10 in South Africa.
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Africa — Engineering a bust-less boom
The World Bank’s released the Africa’s Pulse Volume 7, in which it’s Africa Department made some prognostication about Africa’s future. I’d like to share a snippet with…
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Hopeful Africa Revisited
Some of you would remember my blog article titled Hopeful Africa. I wrote it in disagreement with all the negative prognostication of certain media…
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Monumental Shift of Economic Power: New Architecture Needed?
At a Stanford Graduate School of Business guest lecture, James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank tells of an incident he witnessed at a…
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International Scourge of Conscience: The Case of Rwanda
Ramblings of a young dissatisfied African A very ugly scar on humanity’s collective conscience and a pointer to the hardness of our hearts as members…
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Why the UN Security Council has evaded reform
I wrote this piece in search of possible reasons why efforts to modernize or reform a principal organ of the United Nations (UN), the Security Council,…
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George Washington and John Adams’ Safeguards for Good Government
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. Observe good faith and justice towards all nations;…
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Manipulating Financial Markets
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy the magnitude of which surpasses General Motors, Washington Mutual, Enron, and Worldcom combined according to CBS news.…
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AFRICA, AN ALTERNATE EXPLANATION
Having lived on 3 continents, I have encountered many well-meaning folks from different parts of the globe from ordinary citizens, academics, politicians, and businessmen who seek to…
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