Yearly Archives: 2012
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Post-Marikana South Africa: country not as old, boring and uncertain as business might believe – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica
By their nature, risk analysts can overly-attune their eyes to perceptions of risk. This may, however, be at the expense of opportunities that exist alongside such ... -
Sudan and South Sudan: a civilised divorce – By Ahmed Badawi
Divorce with kids involved is often a painful affair. But once the recriminations have been cast and the tears have dried, the two protagonists, it’s hoped, ... -
Ethiopia: Nile waters diplomacy and the Renaissance dam – By Seifulaziz Milas
Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam, built on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian border with Sudan, is all about producing electricity. And electricity is a key to Ethiopia’s ... -
Is Africa’s digital revolution under threat? – Dele Fatunla
Back in the 1990s, before everyone had two mobile phones and Skype was still a distant dream, if you were an African living elsewhere, with a ... -
African economies rising – but are they taking the people with them? – By Richard Dowden
After 26 years of the most horrific war, Liberia seems to have settled down despite noisy disenchantment with the rule of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, now in ... -
Mugabe Pushing Zimbabweans to the Brink? – By Marko Phiri
In Zimbabwe, serious questions are being asked as to whether President Robert Mugabe is bent on stirring the country back to the political chaos of 2008 ... -
East African Oil and Gas: proper environmental planning needed to avoid disaster – By Thembi Mutch
East Africa is about to experience a hydrocarbon induced economic boom. However, the disconnect between what oil and petrol companies say is happening regarding the development ... -
African Business Culture Tips: Part 5 – Courtesy Should be a Line Item
So I had dinner with an African country chief of one of the world’s top 5 most recognised brands. And in the course of conversation he confided in ... -
African Business Culture Tips: Part 4 – Sentiment Matters
It is not always a sign of rudeness for someone to barge in without an appointment. Sometimes it is a simple sign of affection. It is ... -
African Business Culture Tips: Part 3 – Don’t Confuse “Culture” with “Structure”
This is hard. There is a long-running battle in the social sciences about which worldview – the cultural or the structural –best explains human systems. You are not ...
