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Visionary Leadership: The Key to Unlocking Africa's Potential

Africa stands at a crossroads, rich in natural resources yet struggling to translate this wealth into sustainable development and prosperity for its people. The continent's progress is hindered by a myriad of challenges, including politica…

Published: 15 Aug 2025 at 15:37hrs | | by Tatenda Hwari

Democratic Journey for Africa: Elections a Pathway to Progress

Across Africa, elections serve as a cornerstone of democracy, offering citizens an opportunity to shape the future of their nations. From the vibrant streets of Accra to the avenues of Harare, the electoral process reflects people's aspira…

Published: 04 Mar 2025 at 15:05hrs | | by Sibanda Nomagugu and Masukume Nompumelelo

Africa declares Mpox public health emergency amid surge in cases and deaths

Africa's top health authority, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), has declared an outbreak of mpox a public health emergency ac

Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Milan spoke against the policy of neo-colonialism in Africa

Two events were held in Milan in support of the peoples of Africa: inscriptions demanding the end of the policy of neo-colonialism on the continent were broadca

Published: 18 May 2024 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter

The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'

Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It's the imbecility of Emmanuel Macron that opene…

Published: 18 May 2024 at 09:43hrs | | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Decoloniality vs mental re-orientation

PART of the duty and responsibility of today's academics and intellectuals is to find answers to Africa's development challenges.This is because the post-independent African State has done nothing, but inherit the colonial political-admini…

Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Activists condemned EU for the oppression of African people

A protest was held in the Swiss capital, Bern, against the oppression of African peoples by the United States of America and European Union.&nbsp;The action too

Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 20:08hrs | 18 | by Staff Reporter

Change is inevitable. Is Africa ready?

CHANGE is one of the few constant factors in our lives, perhaps since the beginning of time. Unless driven by the people, the fear of change is another constant. This is because humans, by nature, are creatures of routine because that give…

Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 05:29hrs | 3 | by Tapiwa Gomo

Africa: Embattling a Continent

When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and supplied by America and all NATO countries. As the IMF staffer…

Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday

The burdened party politician

As the 2023 elections draw closer, jockeying and jostling for political party candidature will soon become the order of the day. The process itself is far from clean.It involves pleasing the entire hierarchy of all levers of party politica…

Published: 23 May 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Despotic leaders to blame for Africa's economic morass

ON May 25, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the African continent in marking the 59th anniversary of Africa Day.The day has tremendous significance for Africans and w

Published: 23 May 2022 at 05:40hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko

Black Americans and black Africans relations

THE relationship between black Americans and black Africans has been a subject of interest for social scientists and writers for a long time.Some black Africans, especially students who go to live in the United States are often unprepared …

Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Miriam Tose Majome

Which African countries stand to benefit from AU-EU Summit?

AFRICA has a huge opportunity: The EU's new strategy for critical raw materials calls for diversification in supply chains, potentially opening up a big market for Africa's lithium, graphite, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements, not to …

Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:10hrs | | by Conrad Onyango

10 reasons to consider African trade and investment opportunities in 2022

1. Visible green shoots â€“ rising commodity pricesThe pandemic closed borders and stopped trade, other than for essentials, across the continent and was the principal reason for a decline in investment in 2020. A lack of available capital…

Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:19hrs | | by Lerisha Naidu

Population growth in Africa a concern to Europe?

EXACTLY 150 years ago, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck became the Chancellor of the Germany Empire. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as its first Chancellor until 1890, in which capacity he dominated European …

Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo

Joe Biden's simple message to Africa: Save yourself

I went to university during the days of United States president J F Kennedy, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and the American dreamer, the Reverend Martin Luther King.The last 20 years have been dogged by mass immigrations of persecuted people runni…

Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 18:44hrs | | by Ken Mufuka

Africa is not as bad as is portrayed by media

I AM really concerned about the role of mass media in this century. Firstly, because there is so much of it, secondly, because it can easily distort perceptions and understanding of what is really going on and its significance. Social medi…

Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Bill Gates should stop telling Africans what kind of agriculture Africans need

Africans have long been told that our agriculture is backward and should be abandoned for a 21st-century version of the Green Revolution that enabled India to feed itself. Western science and technology, in the form of seeds modified by sc…

Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 21:58hrs | | by Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe

POEM: Africa My Africa

Africa, my Africa, land of natural splendor and natural glamour, Where impish eagles whistle and dominate the skies while hawks screech and scream! The fight fo

Published: 26 May 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Thembani Dube

The controversial role of private military, security companies in Africa

PRIVATE military companies (PMCs) have been involved in conflicts around the world, including Africa, for a long time and and different reasons.The growth of private military contractors raises ethical questions surrounding the commerciali…

Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Jonathan Powell, Christopher Michael Faulkner, Joshua Lambert

Mastercard and Network International Pioneering Africa's digital payment revolution

Civilization has transformed trading and commerce from the prehistoric means which involved barter trades facilitated by the item-to-item exchange. The discrep

Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff Writter

Monarchy: The cornerstone of African existence

PRINCE Phillip is no longer in our midst. Some dark cloud seems to envelope Britain. May his soul rest in peace. A couple of weeks back, Southern Africa seemed to stand still under a similar dark cloud when isilo samabandla, Goodwill Zweli…

Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Zii Masiye

African education has many surprising outcomes

THE African education system has many surprising outcomes. The smartest students pass with first class marks and get admission to medical and engineering schools. The second class students get MBAs and LLBs to manage the first class studen…

Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 19:30hrs | | by Unkown

African universities' science A faculties a mockery

AFRICAN universities should discontinue their science faculties and concentrate their financial resources on the development of the arts, histories and music than misrepresent the sciences through presenting fake and passive models of the …

Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Reinford Khumalo

Stop giving despotics regimes in Africa a free pass

Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient, and they threaten Africa's chances of unleashing the productive potential of its youth, writes Nelson Chamisa.Africa cannot afford to continue with the auth…

Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by MDC Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa.

Africa is not a dumping ground

During the just-ended Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly, which was held virtually, President ED Mnangagwa prompted African leaders to think seriously about establishing an African Pharmaceutical and Research Comp…

Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila

Countering reactionary and authoritarian politics in Africa

Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient. Their only purpo…

Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa

AfCFTA will launch Africa forward post Covid-19

THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was established in 2018 with the aim to create a single market for goods and services, facilitated by movement of persons to deepen the economic integration of the African continent, under t…

Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:03hrs | | by Admire Maparadza Dube

Why some drugs are tagged for Africa only

THE media has been awash with conspiracy theories on the vaccines that have been or are being rolled out to control Covid-19. In Africa a huge fraction of the population might hesitate, or even refuse entirely, to get vaccinated because of…

Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Nevanji Madanhire

Covid-19 where does Africa stand?

Theorists and gossipers are in sixth gear with discussions swirling around great conspiracy to wipe out a big chunk of the world population leaving only a small controllable and compliant size. Some fundis and terrace observers attribute t…

Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:34hrs | | by Murisa

Africa remembers 'Zimbabwe's founding father' former president Robert Mugabe

Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95.Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a

Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter

Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics

The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citize

Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 20:20hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola

Russia rebuilding a bridge to Africa

About 35 leaders of African countries have officially confirmed their participation in the Russia-Africa Summit, Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, said mid-July. "Almos…

Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Kester Kenn Klomegah

Africa in the age of surveillance capitalism, neo-imperialism

One of my first lectures in graduate school was on how "enlightenment era" Europe imagined and mapped Africa. And some of the first maps were silent about the interior save for pyramids to the north, elephants on coasts and an unknown "dar…

Published: 30 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Africa's greatest resource is its young people

Africa's greatest resource is its young people, with their energy, creativity, and resilience. The 21st century could produce an African renaissance if governments and their development partners prioritize in investing in people, especiall…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 12:22hrs | | by Enos Denhere

Africa Day ADF speech 2019

Africa day is about the freedom of the African people, it is not so much more about the trivialisation of the ordinary people of Africa by those in the know or who claim so to be or in power. Africa day came hard after the liberation of se…

Published: 25 May 2019 at 15:14hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda

Africa doesn't need this thing called Africom

Back in the village, the best men are known to ring-fence their interests and defend them to the last stain of their blood. There, the best man is he who, against all odds, crafts a policy that underpins his interests and then structures t…

Published: 10 May 2019 at 05:54hrs | | by Isdore Guvamombe

Africa has no divine duty to heed the West

IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as perfect, on the one hand, while, on th…

Published: 03 May 2019 at 05:48hrs | | by Conway Tutani

Good policies will boost the solar energy and minerals business in Africa

In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including the world's largest reserves of coltan and significant quantities of the world's cobalt. The United States Geological…

Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:02hrs | | by Enos Denhere

Organizing committee prepares for Russia-Africa Summit

On March 19, under the Chairmanship of Yury Ushakov, an Aide to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Organizing Committee on Russia-Africa held its first meeting in Moscow. The Organizing Committee, established by a presidential decre…

Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 08:05hrs | | by Kester Kenn Klomegah

The challenges Russian business face in Africa

Undoubtedly, a number of Russian companies have largely underperformed in Africa, experts described was primarily due to multiple reasons. Most often, Russian investors strike important investment niches that still require long-term strate…

Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:15hrs | | by Kester Kenn Klomegah

Both democracy and authoritarianism are on the rise in Africa

Is democracy in Africa in retreat? Or is it simply suffering "growing pains"? The last 12 months have seen a great deal of controversy and debate on these important questions.There have been some bright spots, like the rise of more resilie…

Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 10:08hrs | | by Nic Cheeseman

Southern Africa's problem of political elite impunity

Former South African deputy foreign affairs minister Aziz Pahad's support for the Maduro regime in Venezuela throws into sharp relief the acceptance by politica

Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Tendai Biti and Mills

Why Africa finds it hard to support Chamisa's MDC

On the 11th of March 2007 the world woke up to shocking images of the bashed faces of Morgan Tsvangirai, Lovemore Madhuku and others after the police had forcibly dispersed an opposition organised gathering in Highfields. Nelson Chamisa sa…

Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova

The growing addiction of mobile gaming in Africa

In contemporary society, interacting with mobile devices and engaging with the variety of activities that can be played on them - such as gambling, social netwo

Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Moyo Roy

How impartial are these human rights organisations?

Dear Zimbabweans, My fellow countrymen I write to you with a heavy heart, especially considering the recent events which reduced us to nothing but barbarians. Yes our conduct and behaviour show that we are not civilised and I urge Donald T…

Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 15:21hrs | | by Munya Shumba

The West judges Zimbabwe differently

The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) use the same low standards…

Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by newZWire

Investors see Africa as the Final Frontier

Many investors see Africa as the "final frontier" as emerging markets like China and India continue to mature. With a population of about a billion and abundant of natural resources, the continent has been a magnet among investors over the…

Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 11:14hrs | | by Enos Denhere

Why has Africa not developed after attaining independence?

Dear AfricaI grew up thinking that Africa was once referred to as a dark continent because most of its inhabitants are dark in complexion. Honestly it didn't bother me because to me black is really beautiful and I surely wonder why most Af…

Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:21hrs | | by Munya Shumba

Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?

Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election observations I've been on, I have not s…

Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Anonymous

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