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 »
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 »
… in Newsweek. Which undermines the argument that one should pay attention to the message and not the messenger. As if the two could ever really be separated.
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 »
A guest post from Benson Eluma, a NigeriansTalk contributor. WHAT ARE THE differences between Achebe and Hart? Achebe says we have to go back 500 years to understand the problem of Africa; Hart says no, the required span is ‘the last century’. I feel that by the time we get to the start of Hart’s… Read More »
Chinua Achebe, one of the greatest writers Nigeria has ever known, recently wrote an op-ed article titled Nigeria’s Promise, Africa’s Hope for the New York Times. The piece starts out with the injustices of colonisation and how Africans had no idea about what to do with independence after having gained it. The following two excellent… Read More »
1. Google’s Africa play 2. Microsoft opposes a filing by Apple that seeks to trademark the phrase App Store 3. When the whole family is staring at screens, maybe it is time to try tech detox? 4. The informal economy: a story of ethnography untold
1. Africa is now one of the world’s fastest-growing regions 2. Now more hopeful in Africa 3. Africa’s urban revolution in the 20th century 4. Romania declares witchcraft a legally-recognized (and taxable) profession 5. What happens to your digital footprints when you die? 6. “The fault lines that have divided us as a people extend… Read More »
Mallam Lamido Aminu Sanusi has been named as the Central Bank Governor of 2010 for both the African continent and the entire world, by the prestigious Banker Magazine. The editor of the magazine, Brian Caplen, says that few candidate names generate an overall consensus on judging panels, and yet, when it came to finding the… Read More »
1. We learn that Nigerians are the happiest people in the world. Again. 2. Is Estonia boarding a sinking Titanic? 3. HSBC releases a report titled The World in 2050 4. Obama in Africa: To go or not to go? 5. “The scooter traffic [in Vietnam] more or less lives up to reputation.” 6. “In… Read More »