With India on the rise globally, Africa could benefit from a more engaged and ambitious New Delhi.
Politics and Society
Politics and Society Offloading climate responsibility on the victims of Climate Change
An interview with Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey.
Politics and Society Multiparty democracy is in trouble in South Africa – collapsing coalitions are a sure sign
In South Africa coalitions are weaponised as extensions of elections.
Politics and Society Cartoon: United States of Africa — Dream gone with The Brotherly Leader?
October 20 marks the day former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi was deposed. 11 years on the country is still in chaos despite efforts to put it back on the road to recovery. Before he was deposed Gaddafi pushed the dream for the United States of Africa, which he saw as the only way Africa could develop without Western interference, is his dream dead?
Politics and Society The forsaken people of Northern Kenya
Article 204 of Kenya’s constitution mandates the government to use the Equalisation Fund to provide basic services (water, roads and health facilities) to marginalised areas to bring the quality of services in those areas to the level enjoyed by the rest of the nation. Will Pres Ruto’s government give Article 204 its due attention?
Politics and Society Kenya’s big railway project makes life even harder for the poor by ignoring their reality
Mega-projects tend to represent the interests of state and business elites.
Politics and Society The curious case of Zimbabwe sanctions
African leaders have strongly condemned sanctions against Zimbabwe but rarely condemn its deplorable human rights abuses.
Politics and Society It matters that Rishi Sunak has become the UK’s first prime minister of Indian descent
Sunak’s grandparents were born in India before travelling to East Africa, where his parents were born.
Politics and Society Who is Rishi Sunak, the new UK prime minister?
Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.