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Sports tourism: The key to economic development in Africa
Sports tourism can provide opportunities to jump start tourism and travel economy post COVID-19, harness community togetherness, accelerate cultural and…
For Africa’s Manufacturers, Going Green May Offer Profits
The days of smokestack economies are slowly winding down. As evidence of climate change mounts and governments take urgent action…
For Africa’s Manufacturers, Going Green May Offer Profits
The days of smokestack economies are slowly winding down. As evidence of climate change mounts and governments take urgent action…
Small cannabis producers the losers in policy changes across Africa
Cannabis is a drug crop with a long history in Africa. Alongside coca and opium poppy, it has been subjected to international control for…
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How I reconstructed an unwritten ancient African language
Africa is humankind’s home continent. Homo sapiens, with the anatomical and cognitive capacity to have human language as we know…
Is democracy in decline in Africa?
The problem isn’t the system of government but poor leadership that opens the door to despots and coup plotters.
Reforms won’t fix Zimbabwe’s economy, ethical leadership would
The Zimbabwean economy has continued to experience turbulence, despite having managed to weather a devastating spell of hyperinflation which peaked…
Bridging Africa’s health-care divide
While the United States and other rich countries in the Global North start to administer COVID-19 vaccination boosters, only 8.5%…
African ingenuity and resilience of the ‘Kayayie’ in the streets of Accra
It is a common sight within the clustering population of urban Accra to see female-head-porters known in Ghanaian parlance as…
Citizen-government coalitions could help reform African cities
Cities across Africa are growing at an astonishing rate. All 20 of Africa’s fastest growing cities have experienced average growth…
Industrial policy paved the way for Dangote’s empire. Why it didn’t deliver for all Nigerians
Dangote Industries Limited dominates the Nigerian cement market and is a key player in the rapidly expanding African cement business.…
Time for the US to rethink its sanctions strategy on Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe will reach two decades under United States economic sanctions in December this year. The sanctions have had a debilitating…
A global supply chain in crisis
There are an estimated 170 million shipping containers across the globe transporting 90% of the world’s goods. Quarantines, lockdowns, labour…
Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks
Zimbabwe is ranked in the top 20 countries in the world most affected by extreme weather between 2000 and 2019.…