The western democracy is not always ideal for Africa and it’s time the continent explored participatory democracy that is rooted in culture and traditions, argues Ghana’s former president Jerry Rawlings in this abridged speech he gave while in South Africa recently.
Karl Marx got many things wrong, but he was astute on one point. The deep poverty and brash disregard for the poor in industrialising 19th century Europe were the kindling needed to fire revolution.
A FEW years ago, Soul City, one of South Africa’s leading prime-time television dramas, rattled viewers with a slap.
RISING global energy needs will double the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels by 2030, with China contributing most towards the increase, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The embroidered slogan on the polo-shirt of El Salvador’s minister of tourism said much about the prevalent attitude:
2005 has been declared the ‘Year of Microcredit’ by the UN, thus acknowledging the journey of microcredit from an obscure experiment in the mid-1970s to the status of a worldwide movement.
eAfrica spoke to Dr Bernard Kouassi, who was appointed CE of the APRM in January.
WHY are we condemned to conduct the public debate about aid to Africa in such grossly simplified terms?
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