All Roads Lead Back to China
Across Africa, China has become known as the agent of mass construction, wisely bartering infrastructural development – chiefly mining-specific – for long-term access to strategic resources.
All Roads Lead Back to China
Across Africa, China has become known as the agent of mass construction, wisely bartering infrastructural development – chiefly mining-specific – for long-term access to strategic resources.
Are ‘African Lions’ Really Roaring?
Patrick Bond makes a stinging critique of the recent report of the African Development Bank that claims that ‘one in three Africans is middle class’ and as a result, Africa is ready for ‘take off’.
African Solutions for Cote d’Ivoire: The Deception of ‘No Solution’
The prospect of a new civil war looms on the Ivoirian horizon.
The Death of Nigerian Progressive Politics?
Two weeks before Nigeria’s election, Ike Okonta takes aim at progressive politics in Nigeria – or the lack thereof.
Crisis in Cote d’Ivoire: What Impact on Women?
The political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire has had major diplomatic, financial, economic and social repercussions on the population, including on women and the organisations that defend their rights.
Development Aid: Enemy of Emancipation
In an interview with Basta! at the World Social Forum, Firoze Manji discusses the problems of the ‘aid industry.’
Has the UN Failed Cote d’Ivoire?
The UN is capable of saving Cote d’Ivoire from collapse but it cannot do so as long as it plays ‘second fiddle’ to the western powers that ‘pay the piper.’
Is China Greening Africa?
Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that.
Assessing Women’s Rights in Nigeria
The Nigerian government needs to show commitment to the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa by passing relevant laws and allocating funds to women’s rights.
Patent Grab Threatens Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty in Africa
Under the guise of developing ‘climate-ready’ crops, the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are pressuring governments to allow what could become the broadest and most dangerous patent claims in intellectual property history.
Assessing the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
The Rising Continent assesses the performance of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and UN peacekeepers’ forces in DR Congo (MONUSCO), and concludes that both failed to live up to their mandate:
Big Continent and Tiny Technology: Nanotechnology and Africa
The August 2010 issue of NANO Magazine, highlighting nanoscale research expected to have a positive impact on the developing world, included articles focused on energy generation, disease prevention and water purification.
MDGs: How Far We’ve Come and What Still Has to be Done
A mother cradles her newborn baby girl, with joy where there might have been grief.
Dodging World Bank Schizophrenia: The Looting of Africa Continues?
The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China, are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials.