Monthly Archives: October 2012
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: “Leymah Gbowee is too young to know what we’ve done to reach peace and security in our country” – By Magnus Taylor
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, combines a matriarchal exterior with a sophisticated economist’s intelligence. First elected in to office in 2006, she has headed a ... -
Ghana: Security Forces and Civil Society Weigh in on Mining Sector – By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo
Mining is probably Ghana’s most established industry. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the as yet un-formed country was the world’s biggest producer of gold, constituting ... -
Kenya and the Obamas: a half sister and an election – By Magnus Taylor
I was in Kenya at the time of Barack Obama’s election to US President back in 2008. Actually, I was in Uganda on the night of ... -
Uganda: battle over national oil company reveals strains of the sector – By Angelo Izama
When Beatrice Atim Anywar received a call from a reporter to ask if her daughter had applied for a scholarship with an oil company, she laughed: ... -
Rhino poaching in South Africa: organised crime and economic opportunity driving trade – By Keith Somerville
As you enter the region of Hoedspruit in South Africa’s Limpopo province – the gateway to the world famous Kruger National Park – you see big ... -
Managing Risks in the Extractive Industries – By Lionel Badal
Rising demand fuelled by emerging countries, most notoriously China and India, has led to increased competition for natural resources. Despite recurrent volatility in the markets, the ... -
There was a Country: Chinua Achebe makes peace with Nigeria – By Tolu Ogunlesi
Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There was a Country, has appeared fifty-four years after the author’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, today arguably the best-known novel ever written ... -
Africa and the War on Drugs: Guinea-Bissau, Coups and Africa’s Cocaine Equation – By Joseph Kirschke
This piece is part of the Africa and the War on Drugs debate – a series of articles and reviews commissioned to coincide with the launch ... -
Ethiopia: a tale of two development models from the valley where we began – By Richard Dowden
Amentu, Ethiopia The Rift Valley in Eastern Africa is our hole in the ground, where we all come from. Not far from here our earliest ancestors ... -
Tanzania: natural gas boom masks degradation in rule of law and social stability – By Tom Savory and Subiro Mwapinga
Things are changing in Tanzania. Large gas finds off the country’s coastline look set to shake up a country generally considered in continental economic analysis as ...
