Museveni on Qaddafi
Museveni writes a nuanced article on Qaddafi in Foreign Policy. I agree with Chris Blattman’s analysis.
Category Archives: Africa
Nigeria, vote wisely in the 2011 Elections
I just got this in the mail: While walking down the street one day a corrupt Nigerian Senator was tragically hit by a car and died. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. ”Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a… Read More »
Video of BBC World Debate: Is Homosexuality un-African?
BBC World Debate: Is Homosexuality un-African? from Ben Cashdan on Vimeo. HT Africaisacountry
Kofi Annan on the threat to Africa’s fledgling democracy
The piece is mostly about Côte d’Ivoire, as one would expect, but he ends it with this: National leaders must learn that to provide democratic legitimacy, elections must be free and fair. The international community must understand that every time it turns a blind eye to electoral abuse, it becomes complicit in degrading democracy’s potential.… Read More »
Africa banking rising
According to a report by Bain & Company, quoted in a Reuters article: Bain Partner Andrew Tymms said the continent’s financial services industry will continue to grow at a compound annual rate of 15 percent to 2020, outpacing gross domestic product growth. “Retail banking will grow faster than corporate banking … to make up 38… Read More »
A review of Teju Cole’s Open City
In The New Yorker: The narrator of “Open City,” Julius, is in his final year of a psychiatry fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian, and the book covers roughly a year, between the fall of 2006 and the late summer of 2007. He is around thirty, and tells us that he came to America as a university… Read More »
Former Google Nigeria manager singlehandedly codes solution for Nigeria’s voter registration
China’s soft power in Africa
China will put up 10 ICT-driven model primary schools in Kenya as part of a project that aims at constructing 1000 such schools across the African continent. Source.
Reflections on the non-existent health system
Seye Abimbola, a research fellow at the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria, uses the case of a country without a proper health system (Nigeria) to reflect on how one might build a health system for the 21st century: The world is at a watershed, on the brink of monumental change in what… Read More »
How far back to go in telling the stories? – A response
This is a guest post by Keith Hart (cross-posted). It is partly in response to Benson Eluma’s piece here on Achebe and Hart. You can leave your comments here or at Hart’s blog. Benson’s post refers to my previous one, Africa’s hope, which in turn took off from Chinua Achebe’s NYT oped piece. I will not… Read More »