The creation of a continental free trade area across the African continent poses unique conflict of interest challenges for the signatories. In March, African leaders descended upon Kigali, Rwanda, the Land of a Thousand Hills’ capital, to ink an...
Black Panther makes sense for black Americans who have never stayed long in Africa, people who want a Marvel Comic of their own. Since 1979, I have wandered and worked all over Africa. That work has been in the slums of great cities, innumerable war...
The continued abduction of schoolgirls by Boko Haram across Nigeria raises questions about both the government’s competence and its willingness to deal with the rebel group. On February 19, nearly four years after the abduction of...
After the seizure of a port facility by the Djibouti government, questions arise about the safety of investing in Africa. Following a legally dubious seizure of the Doraleh Container Terminal and the abrupt termination of DP World’s contract by...
Should the DRC slip back into the kind of conflict that characterized the previous war, the intervening years of peace will become nothing more than a footnote in a bloody history. For years now, we’ve been seeing headlines about violence and...
