Relations between the US and Africa are unlikely to improve while Trump remains president. But that doesn’t mean the continent should remain passive.
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The US secretary of state’s visit to five African countries didn’t have much to offer by way of investments and commerce.
Some young East Africans believe that there is nothing wrong with corruption – except in Rwanda.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma’s bad behaviour damaged his image and the ANC’s.
Graft is common in the way that markets in Kinshasa are run.
Meeting the challenges from the opposition will strengthen the ANC’s dominance. How well its new leadership copes will become clearer over the next few months.
Youth participation in elections and governance processes in Zimbabwe is low.
Adequate and quality childcare determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.
The US Secretary of State’s mission to Africa will produce few benefits for the continent or for US-Africa relations.
The number of piracy attacks has certainly declined. But the risk of being attacked at sea remains.
What makes a successful presidential performance and does South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa stack up?
The way South Africa’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa has constituted his cabinet reflects the distribution of power within the governing ANC.
Overall South Africa’s new president has a cabinet that forms a team with whom he can work.
Both the state of the nation address and budget speech didn’t leave a sense that there has been much reflection on the depth of the economic malaise gripping South Africa.
South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, poses a danger to democracy by continuiing to blur the lines between the state and the party.
The obituary of the Zuma administration can be summed up with its ethos: grab as much and as fast as you can.
No one is immune to change in leadership that has led many African presidents to lose their coveted top job.
Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.
A tumultuous era has ended and there’s a silver lining to the cloud that has been hanging over South Africa.
The decision to repatriate migrants is a welcome intervention. But, it fails to consider the fundamental causes.
Zuma will go down in history as South Africa’s most corrupt head of government since Cecil Rhodes was prime minister of the Cape Colony.
The speech was delivered with panache and confidence. It had style, declaring to the nation and the world that he, Cyril Ramaphosa, was in charge.
Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki sought to use South Africa’s diplomatic service to enable the country to punch above its weight.
Kenya cited national security when it crossed into Somali territory in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants. But there were numerous other potential aims at play.
Despite spirited efforts to douse the flames of infighting within the MDC-T, matters came to a head at a recent rally in Chitungwiza.