Analyses

Without addressing internal governance crises, structural poverty and ethnic divisions, Tinashe Sithole argues African states will remain fragmented and will not achieve the vision of a borderless Africa, anchored on unity and shared prosperity for the continent. Kwame Nkrumah, the leading pan-Africanist and the founding leader of Ghana, addresses the…

In his Seven-Point forecasts and analysis of the continent’s political, social, and economic landscapes, Desire Assogbavi posits that Africa is on the verge of a transformative era, provided the continent is effectively managed and stakeholders make the right choices. Raster illustration Africa map with countries names isolated on white background. African…

As African Union Member States elect a new senior leadership of the AU Commission in February 2025 Professor Ulf Engel identifies six areas where the coordination and harmonisation function of the future chairperson will be of utmost importance. The three candidates for African Union Commission chairperson: Mahamoud Ali YoussoufMinister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of…

For the African Union to remain relevant, its leaders should be judged by their capacity to renew Africa’s broken multilateralism. Raila Odinga, Former Kenyan Prime Minister and one of the frontline candidates for the chairship of the African Union Commission The African Union Commission is gearing up for new leadership…

For African media to play its natural role of enlightening, sensitizing and educating African citizens about the import of the landmark trade pact, the promoters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) must, as a matter of urgency, incubate and roll-out a sustained media campaign to bridge the wide…

Africa is the world’s youngest continent whose youth population is projected to reach 1.3 billion by 2100 –  representing almost half the world’s  youth population at the time.     By Adam Alqali   Yet one of the biggest contradictions of Africa’s recent economic growth is the continent’s staggering youth…

“If we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria” – President Muhammadu Buhari (2015)     By Adam Alqali Not even the euphoria that greeted Nigeria’s 1999 return to democracy equated that of the reemergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the country’s leader in 2015. His past stewardship of Nigeria (1984-85)…

As Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria’s sluggishness in signing the AfCFTA and its subsequent failure to ratify the agreement over a year later, is a major concern among stakeholders in the AfCFTA process   In a bid to bridge the huge gap in intra-African trade, thanks to numerous tariff and non-tariff…

Nigeria’s quite proactive response to COVID-19 offers other African countries immense learning opportunities     On Friday, February 28, Nigeria confirmed its index case of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), making it the second African Union Member State (after Egypt) and the first in Sub Saharan Africa, to do so.…

Long before the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) arrived in Africa via Egypt in mid February 2020, everyone knew its emergence on the continent was a matter of when and not if…     Having first emerged in China’s central city of Wuhan in late 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus…