African Arguments
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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 ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
African Business Culture Tips: Part 2 – CSR is Dead
There is a very deceptive paradox in the fact that in places like Africa the conversations around CSR are hopelessly archaic while at the same time ... -
African Business Culture Tips: Part 1 – The Cult of Precision
A common complaint I have heard business partners and employees of global (“˜westernised’) companies in Africa often make is that the latter are too obsessed with ...
