Africa

Dear African Abroad: Home is NOT Waiting For You

I first left my home country when I was a wide-eyed sixteen-year-old and headed off to a highly selective pre-University program in South Africa that selects students it hopes will one day be a new breed of African leaders. Currently, I go to a…

The secret power of Igbo’s (Igbocorp Inc)

One of Nigeria’s greatest assets is our diversity. But unfortunately, in the years since our independence in 1960 we have completely failed to exploit this diversity to our advantage. Instead, we have quibbled and fought concentrating on the few things that…

Through The Leaking Glass

A collection of reality twisting drawings from Zimbabwean artist Hilary Moyo

Devcenter Square: How African developers started connecting in the most interesting way

Entrepreneurializing Africa

An analysis of the problem of unemployment in Nigeria and Africa and what we must do about it

It was Pope Francis that called youth unemployment one of “…the most serious of the evils that…

Where’s the ‘Civic’ in CivicTech?

Are we Building Civic Technology for Inclusive Community…

Is this Disruption wave a Distraction: The African Dilemma

Quelli che… “a casa loro”

Caro connazionale che sostieni che… “a casa loro”, vorrei scriverti due righe. Lo faccio perché da qualche tempo osservo che nel dibattito sull’immigrazione in Italia si diffonde sempre più l’approccio di quelli che… “a casa loro”. Una soluzione antica in realtà, che ha il vantaggio…

African Heart

My heart is made of red dust,
I think, washboard pebbles and 
brown grass by the roadside.

Thank you for this informed rant, and I mean rant in the best sense. Because people like you who use their high profiles to call attention to what really matters seem to have to really scream to get the public to listen these days. So thank you for screaming at us. We all need to understand how complex and yet simple- but most of all pressing- these global economic issues are, to us all.