A topsy-turvy year full of dramatic reversals left sub-Saharan Africa still in search of of the balance that would harness good governance to economic progress, says Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie.
A great economic transformation across the world presents Africa with new opportunities in which its diaspora should play a key role, says Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie.
Mariano Aguirre, Fride
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, Afford
Patrice de Beer, journalist
Brian Brivati, Kingston University
Camilla Toulmin, IIED
Godfrey Hodgson, author
Ruth Lister, Loughborough University
Nasrin Alavi, author
Abdul-Rehman Malik, Q-News
So, here we are again. Two years on from the July 2005 gathering at Gleneagles, Scotland, the acceptable face of African leadership is preparing to assemble on the steps of
Also in openDemocracy, Gregory Maniatis of the Migration Policy Institute critically assesses the 2005 report of the Global Commission on International Migration, Migration in an interconnected world: New directions for
We have made 2005 history "Africa's year", in the eyes of its political and celebrity champions in the west, as if every year were not Africa&
Protocol is no small matter to most Nigerians. Rising to address a public meeting of Nigerians in London recently at which he was guest speaker, an eminent Nigerian supreme court
* Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie
* Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
* Michela Wrong
Michael Holman, writer and journalist
Defusing the peoples passion
Is Africa better off after Gleneagles? The continent's profile is higher, debate
The welcome focus on Africa in western media and political discussion before the G8 summit has clarified the continents problems: corruption, dependency, tradition, and bad leadership.
That is: corruption,
