African Thinker Ghana

Delivering incisive analysis and forward-looking insights on Africa's pressing challenges and opportunities.

Latest

How social media can change actions that drive gender-based violence

What we say and where we say it matters for preventing discrimination, and social media is now a priority.

When a government goes rogue – the case of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party have finally stopped pretending that elections in the southern African country…

Can Zimbabwe emerge from its current crisis?

Economic and political chaos will likely persist through Zimbabwe’s elections next year, risking violence and regional spillover.

The struggles of content creators – A founder’s viewpoint

As a content creator, you will be judged on everything you produce: language, message, appearance

Botswana on path to seeing no babies born with HIV

Being told her baby, Lesedi, was born without the HIV virus was “probably the happiest news I’ve heard”, says Neo…

Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe’s forgotten intellectual and leader

Sithole was the most prolific black writer in colonial Rhodesia from the 1950s until the country gained independence as Zimbabwe…

Africa cannot be Europe’s gas station

Germany and Italy are telling Africans that we should saddle ourselves with fossil-fuel infrastructure that will soon become a drag…

Africa’s security depends on action – not just commitment

Will decisions on addressing terrorism and coups taken at the AU extraordinary summit bear fruit or fall on fallow ground?

Book on Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe’s legacy has many flaws

David Moore's book is bereft of exceptionally revealing findings about Robert Mugabe’s leadership, legacy and the politics of Zanu-PF

Workers bear the brunt of Chinese investments in Southern Africa

There is increased reliance on confidential contracts between Chinese lenders and African borrowers which has prevented citizens from knowing the…