Recent history shows that proactive diplomacy can save lives, economies and continental reputation. Long-serving rulers bottle up political tensions and resist predictable power transfers, which means the death of aging autocrats ought to bring active African diplomacy to ensure stable elections and transfers of power.
The challenges that Africa faces in trade and regional integration are legion, and well documented. In this brief we attempt to summarise them against the backdrop of Africa’s broad development priorities.
How has Botswana been able to succeed in promoting better governance, so far, where other resource-rich African states have failed?
Comment Botswana a été en mesure de réussir à promouvoir une meilleure gouvernance, dans la mesure où d’autres riches en ressources des Etats africains ont échoué?
Lessons from a Literature Review
An updated version of this paper was prepared for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation in February 2009.
Chinese development co-operation in Africa has invoked both admiration and criticism, much of it based on limited empirical or anecdotal evidence, contributing to conflicting perceptions as to its purpose, means and outcomes.
The global economic crisis has bred a “new illiberalism”. Its features are Big Government and emerging protectionism.
Some reflections on the occasion of the SA Institute of International Affairs 75th Anniversary.
by Bobby Godsell, Cape Town, 12 May 2009
After their third landslide victory, the African National Congress now occupies 264 of the 400 seats in South Africa’s parliament.
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